Spambots and other automated scripts constantly probe the internet looking for weaknesses in WordPress websites. hCaptcha for WordPress is designed to identify these bots and prevent them from accessing your site. In this post you’ll learn all about hCaptcha for WordPress and see how it fits into the overall strategy for securing the login area…
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…
I’m delighted to say that the MetaSlider plugin is now part of PublishPress. The PublishPress team’s mission is to help WordPress publishers succeed. We believe that maintaining and improving the MetaSlider plugin will enable us to help more publishers. MetaSlider is one of the most popular slideshow plugins for WordPress, with over 700,000 installs and…
Universities love to use WordPress. The platform is an affordable and powerful way to build all the types of websites that are needed on a campus. Yes, WordPress can build a complete homepage website for your university, with customizable features and powerful tools.
Vince Dice is the editor of Gig Harbor Now, a nonprofit news organization in Gig Harbor, near Seattle. His publication is celebrating its first birthday this week and he has interesting story to tell, that sums up many trends with local news in 2022. For many years, Vince was connected to a newspaper called “Gig…
One central idea here at PublishPress is that this is an exciting new time for journalism. There is a large group of new publishers that are mostly non-profit, mission-driven, and powered by WordPress. This week provided excellent evidence to back up this idea. The Institute for Nonprofit News released their nominations for the “Nonprofit News…
Having a code problem with your WordPress site? There’s a significant chance that the answer can be found in a PHP error log. Often these error logs are available via hosting company control panels, but also there are many users who can’t access them. In this guide, I’ll show you how to set up PHP…
The Local Media Association is a trade group that focuses on the business side of local media. They try to help newspapers, TV stations, and radio stations grow their bottom line. They’ve just put out a detailed report explaining what happened when several Black-owned local media outlets moved to WordPress and Newspack. This list shows…
For several years, I’ve been blogging here on PublishPress about the explosion in local news publishers. Initially that was driven by a gut-feeling that something exciting is in the early, formative stages. These publishers are mostly non-profit, mission-driven, and powered by WordPress. There’s now data to back that up: The Institute for Non-Profit News is…
Back in May, we covered the upcoming launch of Baltimore Beat as a Black-led, Black-controlled nonprofit newspaper. The site launched this week. You can read the launch post from Lisa Snowden, the newspaper’s editor: We wanted to tell stories that reflected the fact that Baltimore City’s residents are more than 60% Black. We wanted to…