We have seen writers and publishers use WordPress to share their thoughts on 10,000’s of topics. WordPress is a great platform to talk about everything from science and tech to intimate, personal thoughts. But all of us want to be heard. We write so that we have a voice. We want people to stay on…
Version 5.8 brings some of the biggest changes we have seen in WordPress since the launch of the Gutenberg editor back in 2018. The original launch gave us blocks inside posts and pages. This new version is the first step towards blocks everywhere in WordPress. When you upgrade to 5.8, you’ll see a completely new…
Here at PublishPress, we create a lot of content, between our blog posts and documentation articles. We wanted to organize all of that content more effectively, so that it was easier to find. For example, if you use Contact Form 7, it would be ideal if you could find all our Contact Form 7 content…
PublishPress Blocks 2.8.2 is out now with several improvements. The headline feature allows users to login and see a list of posts that they have written. You can create this list using the “Content Display” block in Gutenberg. This will very useful if you have a lot of authors because they can quickly find their…
PublishPress 3.4 is available now, and it has a completely new editorial calendar. The old calendar had been around for many years and was starting to show its age. The old version used PHP for 80% of the codebase and only relied on Javascript for the drag-and-drop actions. This legacy code meant that the calendar…
“Lazy Loading” is a technique that helps the important parts of your site load quickly for visitors. Lazy Loading makes sure that page elements that are non-critical will load after the more important elements. Imagine you open an article you want to read on the internet. Usually, you would start at the title and perhaps…
One PublishPress user wrote to us and asked about this situation: “I would like every user to get a place where they can enter their own journal entries that no one else can see.” This it is possible to set up private journals with the PublishPress plugins, and I’ll explain how in this post.
If you use the PublishPress Capabilities plugin, you’re going to find the new “Editor Features” really useful! What does “Editor Features” do? It allows you to clean up the post editing screen. You can decide what users see when they’re writing posts.
WP Job Manager is a popular plugin with over 100,000 active installs and a wide range of available add-ons. This plugin can add job boards to your WordPress site so people can look for work and post their resumes. WP Job Manager is built by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. There’s a free version on…
PublishPress Blocks is the plugin that gives you more control over the WordPress block editor. Over the last few weeks, we’ve released two major updates to PublishPress Blocks. Versions 2.7 and 2.8 arrive with new blocks and usability improvements. Here’s a guide to five things to look out for when you install the latest version…