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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user this week: I am trying to allow user in one role to choose an existing Tag, but not allow them to create new Tags. This was simple enough to do with Categories, but I cannot figure it out for Tags. This was a great question that…