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…
Categories and Tags are the main ways you can organize WordPress content. However, on a normal WordPress site, both Categories and Tags are only available for Posts. This means that you can’t organize your Pages, unless you use the Parent/Child setup. You also can’t perform some useful tasks with PublishPress plugins. For example, you could…
We always listen carefully to your feedback. Sometimes that feedback is so overwhelming that we have to build a feature. This happened with PublishPress Authors. The PublishPress Authors plugin allows you to create, manage and display authors for all your WordPress content. Your feedback was that you wanted to have different types of authors. Imagine…
With the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can choose pre-publishing requirements for your content. We’ve just released version 2.10, which has a new interface and also integrates with OpenAI. In this guide, I’ll show you how the interface makes PublishPress Checklists easier to use. I’ll also explain how to use OpenAI to automatically scan and approve…
Seth Rubenstein is the lead developer at Pew Research. He’s been talking lately about their adoption of Gutenberg Blocks for WordPress publishing. Seth started with a really interesting Twitter thread full of examples: “For all its naysayers Gutenberg is a game changer for digital news apps. Its a force multiplier for your team. We’ve spent…
This month we’ve got some exciting news to share with you. We’ve released a new plugin called PublishPress Statuses. Have you ever wanted to label a WordPress post something other than “Draft” or “Pending Review”? PublishPress Statuses allows you to create additional statuses for your posts. For example, you can add statuses such as “In…
Welcome to the fifth annual review from PublishPress. You can read our previous reviews for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. We write these annual reviews for you, our customers. Thank you for all your investment in our work. I hope the reviews help you get a better understanding of our vision for these plugins. We…
A few months ago, I wrote about the Lede platform from Alley Interactive. They’ve helped launch the highly-successful Defector and Block Club Chicago sites. One of the many things to admire about Lede is that they actively help journalists lead and own their work. This next quote is how Lede describe themselves:
The Medill School of Journalism put out their annual “State of Local News Project” this week. Yes, local news is dying. Here’s a quote from Medill: “Since 2005, the U.S. has lost nearly 2,900 newspapers. The nation is on pace to lose one-third of all its newspapers by the end of next year.” What does…
We’re excited to share some cool news about our most popular plugin, PublishPress Capabilities. This helpful tool gives you super-detailed control over who can do what on your WordPress site. PublishPress Capabilities now shows you the capabilities for many free and commercial plugins, from Yoast and Rank Math to Learn Dash and Gravity Forms.