How to Customize Permissions for One WordPress User
This week, a PublishPress user asked us if it is possible to customize the permissions for a single WordPress user. The answer is “yes”, and in this guide I’ll show you two ways to do that:
Author: Steve Burge
Steve is the founder of PublishPress. He's been working with open source software for over 20 years. Originally from the UK, he now lives in Sarasota in the USA. This profile is generated by the PublishPress Authors plugin.
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Green Street News: How A Major Real Estate Publisher is Thriving on WordPress
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Than Taintor from the Human Made agency and Zeshan Ahmed from Green Street News. Together they’ve been part of the project to revamp the Green Street News website. Green Street News is a major real estate publisher. They’re based out of the UK, but have…
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Kimberly Lipari on Staying Intentionally Small as a WordPress Agency
Kimberly Lipari is CEO of Valet, a WordPress agency. She had made the very intentional choice to remain a small agency. We talk about how Kimberly balances work and family life, plus the importance of human touch in agency work. Kimberly introduces me to the tools that Valet relies on. She does a great job…
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Block All Users in a Role from Viewing a Post Type
We had a question from a PublishPress customer who wanted to prevent everyone in a specific user role from accessing a post type on their site. For example, they wanted to block all users in the “Author” role from viewing Pages on their site. This is possible with the PublishPress Permissions plugin. In this short…
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Everything That’s New in the PublishPress Blocks Plugin
In the middle of 2025, I wrote a post saying that we have big, new plans for the PublishPress Blocks plugin. Our goal with the plugin is to provide a complete set of management tools for blocks. There are lots of different plugins that provide a few features for blocks. None of them are comprehensive….
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How YouTube and AI Unlocked Jamie Marsland’s Creativity
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…
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How to Show “Reviewed By” on WordPress Posts
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…
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What are Private Posts and Pages in WordPress?
“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…
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Helping Print Publishers Find Success with WordPress, With Simea Merki
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…
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How to Write Anonymous Posts in WordPress
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…