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…
This is the third time we’ve hosted “WP Publisher Sessions”, where we explore how publishers can grow their audience and revenue. This week we have a special guest, Fränk Klein, who is currently a Principal Engineer at Human Made. He specialises in high traffic websites and has been the lead engineer on projects such as…
Here at PublishPress, we focus on helping publishers succeed with WordPress. Many of those publishers spend much time to find and showcase awesome authors for their content. However, we’ve regularly heard from publishers who have run into a problem: WordPress authors don’t appear in search results. This makes it hard to find content written by…
If I had to pick a word to describe my experience with large WordPress sites, it’d be “overwhelming”. There are so many admin notices, plugin alerts, review requests, and other demands for your attention. There are settings, sidebars, tabs, input boxes, metaboxes, configuration options, and more. So with PublishPress Capabilities, we’re helping you simplify the…
The “upload_files” capability is one of the most important in WordPress. If users don’t have the “upload_files” capability, they completely lose access to the Media Library. They can’t upload files or even browse media on your site.
Here’s an interesting question from a PublishPress user: “I want to allow the Author role to edit published posts (theirs or others) and make those changes live without approval. But I don’t want those users to create new posts themselves.“ Yes, this is possible using the PublishPress Capabilities plugin.
The Gutenberg editor provokes a lot of debate in the WordPress world. Some people love Gutenberg – we’re in that camp and built the PublishPress Blocks plugin. Some people really don’t like Gutenberg and prefer to stick with the editor they’ve used for years. However, most WordPress users have more mixed feelings and prefer to…
This is the second time we’ve hosted “WP Publisher Sessions”, where we explore how publishers can grow their audience and revenue. This session is all about upgrade flows. Pete Ericson of Leaky Paywall talks about his Subscription Accelerator Framework and how he helps publishers generate significant revenue by implementing metered paywalls and the right subscription…