Many requests from PublishPress revolve around published posts. Some site owners want to stop their users from updating published content. Other site owners want to go further and stop their users from editing published content at all. This is because their content often needs an approval process. And what’s the point of an approval process…
In some situations, you may need to completely refresh your WordPress site. If you need to reset your WordPress user permissions, this is possible with a plugin called PublishPress Capabilities. This plugin has an option to delete all the current permissions and user roles, and restore the WordPress defaults.
We all know that local newspapers are in trouble. At least 25% of US papers have closed in the last 15 years. But there are also positive signs: if you look carefully, we’re seeing many fresh, independent media projects. These new projects are innovative, diverse, making money and overwhelmingly using WordPress. That last point really…
Phew! 2020 is over. That was intense. 2020 was a difficult personal year for many of our team, with family members passing away, losing jobs, and enduring hard times. Fortunately, the PublishPress business was a bright spot this year. Our team (Anderson, Kevin, Valentin, and myself) rallied together. And our customers were great – I…
We develop a plugin called PublishPress Revisions that allows you to submit, approve and schedule changes to your WordPress content. Revisions are a wonderful feature in WordPress and have saved me many hours of headaches. WordPress automatically saves a revision for your content every 60 seconds using the autosave feature. So whenever I make a…
In the middle of 2020, we acquired a plugin called “Advanced Gutenberg”. It is a plugin that adds over 20 extra blocks to the Gutenberg interface, along with custom layouts, CSS styles, and permissions for blocks. This week, we renamed the plugin to “PublishPress Blocks“. There’s a couple of reasons for this change:
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.