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. If users do not have the “upload_files” capability, this image below shows what they will see when they use…
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…
PublishPress Future is one of the most popular and useful plugins we develop. The free version of the plugin has over 100,000 users. The plugin enables you to make automatic changes to posts on a date you choose. Here are some examples: The plugin was called “Post Expirator” and we adopted it almost two years ago….
In this tutorial, I’m going to introduce you to the unfiltered_html permission. This permission is a security feature in WordPress that prevents users from using tags such as iframe and embed, plus also more advanced code such as Javascript. This unfiltered_html permission could be very dangerous in the wrong hands, so please don’t give this…
OAuth is short for “Open Authorization” and it is an open standard for user management. Anyone can use the OAuth protocols and frameworks. You can find OAuth services available via small WordPress plugins and also large multinational companies. For example, when you sign up for an app it may offer the chance to login using…