Creating content can be a complex process if a lot of users are involved. And when it comes to giving attribution, sometimes it’s not enough to group everyone together as an “Author”. Wouldn’t it be better to give accurate attribution to all the people who help create your content? Imagine having a WordPress post where…
One of the key players in the WordPress publishing ecosystem is Newspack. They have a hosted service, but it’s also possible to download and use Newspack independently. The key Newspack plugins are all available on Github. Here at PublishPress, we’ve been seeing some customers use Newspack on their own hosting. This led me to write…
This week, one PublishPress user asked us about an interesting WordPress problem. They could not see the “Author” dropdown option when they were writing posts. This screenshot below shows how the Author dropdown normally appears:
The Last Modified Date is a key feature on many websites. This can be a helpful feature if you want people to know when the post was updated. I’ve seen this used for news articles, documentation, and even legal and technical information. The Last Modified Date does not appear by default on most WordPress sites….
There’s a fascinating story around the work of Flatwater Free Press (FFP), a WordPress publisher in Nebraska. Yanqi Xu is a reporter for FFP. She won a national award for “Our Dirty Water”, a series about Nebraska’s high nitrate levels and their connection clusters amongst local residents. Farmers in Nebraska are using fertilizers full of…
Update: PublishPress Statuses is now available on WordPress.org. PublishPress Statuses is a new plugin that we’ve been working on for almost a year. Previously, we’ve had some support for custom statuses in other plugins including PublishPress Planner and PublishPress Permissions. However, custom statuses are a really important feature for WordPress publishers. We’ve had numerous requests…
WordPress is a platform that focuses on publishers. The project’s mission is to “Democratize Publishing“. However, WordPress does lack some key features that most publishers need. One of these missing features is custom statuses. The current choice for WordPress users is between “Draft” and “Pending Review”. Here’s a typical request from one of our PublishPress…
Last month, I wrote about the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress sites. ActivityPub could form the basis for a new social network with your WordPress site as your profile. The time is right to explore alternatives because social media is abandoning publishers. As you’ve probably heard, the Twitter is now called X, and it’s not very…
There are several ways to remove users from your WordPress site, or prevent them from accessing the admin area. For example, you can choose to change the user’s account to “No role for this site“. If you change this setting, the user will be able to log in to your site. And they will be…
Over 10 years ago, I wrote a post with this title: “There is an Open Source Rival to Facebook: WordPress“. In that post I pointed out that WordPress had almost all the features needed to build a social platform and asked, “What might happen if all those WordPress sites were linked together into a network?”