In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Steve Burge chats with Jamie Marsland. Jamie is known for his YouTube work on the PootlePress channel and now the official WordPress channel. A few years back, he had a regular job in publishing, but a career change unlocked the creative energy inside him. First, they talk about…
Have you heard of Google’s E-E-A-T guidelines? This acronym stands for Expertise, Experience, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. If you have a WordPress website, E-E-A-T is going to have some influence on where you appear in Google’s search results. Google wants to see that your posts can be trusted, so you need to show that posts are…
“Private” is one of eight post statuses available in WordPress. These statuses control whether WordPress posts are visible to the entire world, waiting for moderation, or sent to the trash to await deletion. When you write in WordPress, you will most commonly see the Draft, Pending Review, and Publish statuses. The Private status is used…
Simea is part of a digital agency called Morntag, based in Switzerland. Her agency helps people navigate between different worlds. Many of Simea’s customer are traditional print publishers and they need her help to navigate the online world including WordPress, AI and YouTube. Also the customers often need to work in different linguistic worlds including…
We have PublishPress customers who sometimes want to publish posts with no author attached. There are many reasons why they want anonymous blog posts. Sometimes the post is an official statement from the company and doesn’t have a single author. Sometime the post is controversial and the safe choice is not to attach a person’s…
When you log in to a WordPress site, you will see boxes full of information. These are called “Dashboard Widgets”. You will probably see a “Welcome to WordPress!” widget with lots of useful links. There’s also a “WordPress Events and News” widget with official updates. There’s an “At a Glance” widget so you can quickly…
We received an interesting question this week from a PublishPress user. One of our customers wanted to remove elements from the “Screen Options” dropdown panel in WordPress. The “Screen Options” tab is available in most areas of the WordPress admin area. This image below shows an example from the “Pages” screen.
A WordPress website always starts by looking very clean. But after you choose a theme and install a lot of plugins, the user interface quickly becomes very crowded. In other guides, we’ve shown you how to hide WordPress admin menus, hide the admin toolbar, and hide dashboard widgets. In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to…
A few PublishPress users have written to us and asked if it’s possible to control who can access Elementor templates. By default, only users in the “Administrator” role have the ability to create and edit new templates. In this guide, I’ll show you how to allow other users to manage templates. For more control over…
WordPress sites display an admin toolbar for all logged-in users. This is visible on the frontend of your site and also in the WordPress admin area. This toolbar contains shortcuts to key features in WordPress. A user in the Subscriber role will only see a few features. A user in the Administrator role may see…