We recently covered Block Club Chicago which was is built in partnership with the “Lede” platform from Alley Interactive. We’ve previously covered another Lede site called “Defector”. Lede is one of several new WordPress publishing platforms including Newspack, PaywallProject, and IndieGraf.
This is the fourt time we’ve hosted “WP Publisher Sessions”, where we explore how publishers can grow their audience and revenue. This week we invited Louis Nicholls of Sparkloop to chat with us about how Sparkloop helps newsletter publishers grow. He also breaks down what are the growth channels and strategies that are working right…
The PublishPress Future plugin allows you to make automatic changes to posts. pages and other content types. On a date you choose, PublishPress Future can delete your post, change the status, or update the post categories, or make other changes. We’ve just released version 3.0 of Future. This version of the plugin is a major…
We have a PublishPress customer who also uses the Gravity Forms plugin. They asked us if it was possible to create a user who can do nothing in WordPress, except for edit form entries in Gravity Forms. Yes, this is possible, and this tutorial will show you how.
The Theme Editor in WordPress allows you make direct changes to your site’s theme files. This is not always a good idea because changes made via the Theme Editor can easily take your site offline. There is no “undo” or “rollback” button if you make a mistake. In fact, you will see this message when…
I popped onto the Scale podcast with Stewart Ritchie to talk about how WordPress is powering a lot of new publishers. The topic was the PublishPress plugins, and how running that business has helped us discover hundreds of publishing start-ups. The interview is 35 minutes long. If you’re short of time, the meat of the…
PublishPress Capabilities 2.8 is available today. This release has some changes that will be immediately obvious when you update the plugin, plus also some useful features that won’t be immediately obvious. In this guide, I’ll introduce you to four new features in PublishPress Capabilities.
I’ve talked about the work of INN (Institute for Nonprofit News) regularly here on PublishPress. They are doing a superb job of building a community of new publishing start-ups. The INN has a new innovation called the Rural News Network. This is a WordPress-powered hub for local news sites, almost all powered by WordPress too….
In the last few months, there have been big changes in how you create navigation menus in WordPress. Those changes are a result of the new “Full-Site Editing” feature. The PublishPress Capabilities plugin allows you to control access to both the old and the new navigation menus. For example, you can show a “Log in”…
I’ve just come across a documentary about a WordPress-powered newspaper in Iowa. The movie is called “Storm Lake” and was filmed in Storm Lake, Iowa. Check out the IMDB listing. The movie’s synopsis is, “Art Cullen and his family and colleagues at Iowa’s Storm Lake Times, fight-at the local level-for the survival of their biweekly…