We often hear about old newspaper companies that are struggling. But there’s a good chance that 2020 was a turning point for successful new journalists. If you look carefully, we’re seeing many fresh, independent media projects. The business model for these new projects is different. They are ditching corporate ownership in favor of a model…
PublishPress Authors is the best plugin for adding many authors to one WordPress post. With this plugin, you can create detailed author profiles that linked to WordPress users, or you can add guest authors. Version 3.9 is now available for both the Free and Pro versions of PublishPress Authors. The main new feature in these releases is integration with the “Bulk Edit”…
We develop the PublishPress Revisions plugin that allows you to submit, moderate, approve, and schedule revisions. This plugin is built on top of the core revisions feature in WordPress. Our Revisions Pro plugin is able to capture all of the data that has changed in your WordPress posts. However, that is not true of the…
There are several permissions in WordPress that are really powerful: The edit_posts permission controls access to most key writing features in WordPress. The upload_files permission controls access to the entire Media Library.
Version 3.0 of the PublishPress plugin is now available. This release focuses on improving the Notifications feature. You’ll find that the Notifications are now more stable, and the Notifications Log is more useful. There is an extra reason that we labeled this as “3.0” rather than simply continuing to “2.5”. There are some relatively minor…
As everyone waited to find out the winners in last week’s elections for US president and Congress, one winner was immediately obvious: WordPress. Earlier in the election cycle, we saw the PublishPress plugin used by more than one presidential candidate. Even so, it was still surprising to see WordPress used in almost every 2020 race,…
Yanir Seroussi is a data scientist for Automattic and lives in Brisbane, Australia. It can be hard to remember with all the craziness of 2020, but the year started with epic bushfires in Australia. It was the worst fire season on record with more than 15,000 different fires and nearly three billion animals killed or…
Here at PublishPress, we’re very focused on the publishing experience in WordPress. We love to see large organizations use WordPress to publish their content. I analyzed the main sites for all major branches of the US federal government and found that WordPress is used for several very famous websites. I’ll showcase them in this blog…
Phil Sturgeon is a renowned API and PHP developer. He’s now starting a charity called Protect Earth to plant trees across the UK. In this interview, I talk with Phil about his environmental work, and cycling around the world to fundraise for the project. How does he manage to launch a hugely ambitious new project…
In normal times, being a governor of a US state is a fairly low-profile job. Yes, there are some famous governors. For example, you probably remember Governor Schwarzenegger. However, there are 50 different governors, plus five more if you include territories such as Guam and Puerto Rico. Most governors struggle to become famous in their…