We're really happy to say that the PublishPress Authors plugin is now at version 4.0.
Previously, the main selling point of PublishPress Authors was that you could add multiple authors to one post. That's not possible with the WordPress core.
But thanks to user feedback, we've been able to expand the plugin. With version 4.0, PublishPress Authors is now a complete platform for managing and displaying authors.
If you run a WordPress website which allows users to log in, you probably spend a lot of time answering account questions or solving website bugs for your users.
Here at PublishPress, we often have to browse our site and see exactly what the user sees. We need to test the user's account without resetting their password.
To solve this problem, we've built a new “User Testing” feature in the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. This is available in Capabilities version 2.6.
PublishPress Blocks 3.1 is available now and allows you to control which users can see a specific Gutenberg block.
The PublishPress Blocks plugin has a new “User Role Controls feature”. This makes it possible to add the following restrictions to any Gutenberg block:
You can add these controls to almost any block, including blocks from the WordPress core and third party plugins.
PublishPress Permissions 3.8 is available now. The Pro version has major improvements to the “Teaser” feature, which allows you to promote restricted content.
You can choose messages to display for people who try to obtain your content but don't have access. In the image below, the regular title shows but the actual content of the post is hidden.
PublishPress Authors 3.30 is available now and it has major improvements to the “Author Boxes” feature. This feature allows you to show author profiles under posts and in other areas of your site.
“Author Boxes” now offers a live preview, so you can see the design of each Author Box before making it live. And there are now hundreds of new options, so you can customize every aspect of the author profiles.
The PublishPress Capabilities plugin has a feature that allows you to select a “Role Level”.
Each user role in WordPress has a different level from 0 to 10.
We had a question this week from a PublishPress customer who wanted to understand the relationship between authors and their WordPress posts. They wanted to know if authors could see – or perhaps even manage – comments on other people's posts.
This tutorial is a guide to understanding the control that users have over comments on posts they have written. You can also follow this link if you want a guide to moderating comments in WordPress.
PublishPress Blocks is one of the most popular plugins we offer, with over 30,000 active users.
PublishPress Blocks has tools to help improve the Gutenberg editor. You'll find extra blocks, options to control who can use each block, and the ability to easily add CSS to each block.
We've just released version 3.0 of PublishPress Blocks. This update has a new interface that closely matches the other PublishPress plugins. This update also introduces the foundations of more key improvements in future releases, particularly around the “Block Controls” features.
I'll give you a quick guide to the changes you see when you install the new version of PublishPress Blocks.
The Elementor plugin is an excellent good page-builder for WordPress sites. It is also growing very fast, with huge numbers of new downloads every day.
This week, one PublishPress customer asked us if it was possible to allow some WordPress users to edit a single post with Elementor.
Our first thought was “yes, this is easy”. We've done it before many times using this approach, this approach and others.
One of our favorite things to do is add new features to our Free plugins. It's a pleasure to release improvements for anyone to use.
The latest version of PublishPress Series has several new features that were previously only in the Pro version of the plugin.
PublishPress Series is a publishing 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's an overview of what's new in PublishPress Series version 2.10.