Update: this feature is now part of PublishPress Pro. Before this release, PublishPress could only send you email notifications whenever your team left a comment. However, email is not enough in 2017. The most popular request we’ve had for PublishPress has been Slack integration. Why not get notifications where you spend much of your workday: inside Slack? So,…
Yes? Then you know it’s hard to create consistent, high-quality posts. It’s easy to change your approach from post to post, until you have a site full of messy content. The answer is the Content Checklist add-on for PublishPress. This add-on allows you to set criteria that your writers should (or have to!) follow. PublishPress is possibly…
Update: this plugin is now called PublishPress Checklists. The slogan of PublishPress is “Professional Publishing Tools for WordPress”. Before you publish WordPress posts, do your authors have things you always check for? A minimum number of words? Yoast SEO green check marks for SEO and readability? A certain number of categories and tags? A featured image? These…
Update: Our new and improved plugin is now live! The new plugin is PublishPress Checklists! These tutorials will give more details on what PublishPress Checklists can do: Set a maximum or minimum number of words. Choose a minimum and maximum number of tags and categories. Before you publish WordPress posts, do you have things you…
PublishPress provides 3 dashboard widgets: Unpublished Content, Notepad, and Posts I’m following. These widgets appear on the main Dashboard screen in your WordPress admin area. If you don’t need these widgets, follow our guide to disabling dashboard widgets in WordPress. Unpublished Content The Unpublished Content widget gives an overview of the content that is in…
We’ve just released a new plugin called PublishPress. The goal of PublishPress is to become an essential plugin for any WordPress site with multiple writers. PublishPress gives you the tools to set up a custom publishing workflow. Here are just a few of the key features: You can see all your scheduled posts in a single…
Long, scrolling pages are really popular right now, which makes sense. They’re more mobile-friendly than oversized navigations. They allow you to present a lot of information in a cleaner fashion. They’re also great for taking visitors through a logical journey, starting with their pain all the way through to your solution. But just because visitors…
If you’re building WordPress sites seriously, you need a staging site. In a staging site, you can test your changes without risking your live site. It’s an exact copy of your live site, which is great. Some hosts, like GoDaddy, have a staging server feature available with the hosting plan. This is the best choice,…
If you haven’t heard the announcement, Disqus, is going to start charging $10 per month, per site. Disqus is one of the most popular commenting systems in the world. However, they have a terrible attitude towards customers. OSTraining covered the awful rollout of Disqus’ “Reveal” advertising platform. WPBeginner wrote a rundown of some major problems…
Every hosting company has slightly different ways for you to install software. Some hosts have fairly standard installation processes. Others go above-and-beyond to make life easy for you. GoDaddy is one of those companies. Rather than use the normal WordPress installation, they’ve built their own process with all sorts of added benefits. During the installation,…