Our guest in this episode of the PublishPress podcast is Karim Marucchi from the Crowd Favorite agency and the FAIR project. With Karim’s help, we’re going to try and tell two stories in this episode. The first story is Karim’s life working with some of the biggest agencies in the world, and selling projects to some of the…
PublishPress Series is the WordPress plugin that allows you to organize posts into issues or series. This is ideal for magazines, newspapers, short-story writers, teachers, comic artists, or anyone who writes multiple posts on the same topic. Here are some ways to use the plugin:
Evan Prodromou is often called “The father of the Fediverse”. It’s amazing how much overlap there is between the aims of WordPress and Fediverse. These two communities should work together more! The Fediverse consists of independent social networking platforms including Mastodon (micro-blogging), PeerTube (videos), Pixelfed (images) and more. Just like WordPress, most of the Fediverse…
WordPress sites can get really, really big. We regularly get questions from customers about sites with massive numbers of users. An example this week was a site with over 500,000 users. The _user_meta table had grown to almost a million rows. Once your userbase gets this big, even the simple things get complicated. Yes, large…
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Raquel joins Dan and Steve to chat about bringing PressConf to life. PressConf is the spiritual successor to Pressnomics, a business-focused WordPress conference. Raquel tells the PressConf story and shares her lessons for other event organizers, including Dan who was part of the WordCamp Canada team. Raquel talks…
This week, a PublishPress user asked us if it is possible to customize the permissions for a single WordPress user. The answer is “yes”, and in this guide I’ll show you two ways to do that:
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Than Taintor from the Human Made agency and Zeshan Ahmed from Green Street News. Together they’ve been part of the project to revamp the Green Street News website. Green Street News is a major real estate publisher. They’re based out of the UK, but have…
Kimberly Lipari is CEO of Valet, a WordPress agency. She had made the very intentional choice to remain a small agency. We talk about how Kimberly balances work and family life, plus the importance of human touch in agency work. Kimberly introduces me to the tools that Valet relies on. She does a great job…
We had a question from a PublishPress customer who wanted to prevent everyone in a specific user role from accessing a post type on their site. For example, they wanted to block all users in the “Author” role from viewing Pages on their site. This is possible with the PublishPress Permissions plugin. In this short…
In the middle of 2025, I wrote a post saying that we have big, new plans for the PublishPress Blocks plugin. Our goal with the plugin is to provide a complete set of management tools for blocks. There are lots of different plugins that provide a few features for blocks. None of them are comprehensive….