If you run a newspaper or magazine site, there may be a lot of activity with authors, editors, and also ordinary users. It’s important for publishers to have an accurate way to track who is making changes on their site. And it’s vital to know what has been changed. Here at PublishPress, we recommend Logtivity…
The Times is nearly 250 years old and is one of the most famous newspapers in the UK. It has a sister paper called The Sunday Times which publishes only once per week. In recent years, The Times has focused on digital growth and their audience on TheTimes.co.uk is now four times greater than their…
In the latest version of the PublishPress Authors plugin, we’ve added a few that improves compatibility with other themes and plugins. Previously, PublishPress Authors allowed you to add “Guest Authors” that did not have a user account. This option was lightweight but did cause compatibility issues.
This week, a PublishPress customer wanted to understand the relationship between authors and comments their WordPress posts. The customer wanted to know if authors could see manage comments on their own posts. This tutorial is a guide to understanding the control that users have over comments on posts. You can also click this link if…
The PublishPress Future plugin lets you set up automatic changes to your posts. You can pick a day for PublishPress Future to do things like delete a post, switch its status, or update what categories it’s in. These changes are called Future Actions. The latest version of PublishPress Future Pro has a cool, new feature…
“The logical solution was for newspapers to form groups and cooperate, establishing networks of reporters whose dispatches would be telegraphed back to a central office and then made available to all member newspapers.” I came across that quote from Tom Standage in his book “The Victorian Internet“. He was talking about the 1840s when news agencies like the…
Have you ever wondered what “Draft” or “Pending Review” mean when you’re writing a WordPress post? These are called “post statuses”. In this guide, I’m going to introduce you to “Draft”, “Pending Review” and the other post statuses that are available for WordPress posts. These statuses control whether WordPress posts are visible to the entire…
A PublishPress user wrote to us with question: I have just installed your PublishPress Capabilities plugin, which is working almost perfectly. The problem that I’m having is that my user can upload images but can not edit the Alternative Text, Title, Description and Caption of the image, which I need the user to be able…
If you want to create a dynamic and stylish display on your WordPress site, it’s a good idea to add a slideshow plugin. MetaSlider is the most popular WordPress slideshow plugin. With 100,000’s of websites already using MetaSlider, you’re in good company using the easiest and most powerful slider plugin for WordPress.
When you’re writing a story in WordPress, have you ever wanted to label it something other than “Draft” or “Pending Review”? If so, you are not alone because I often hear this request from publishers we work with. The root of the problem is that, by default, WordPress only gives you three workflow statuses for…