We had an interesting request from a PublishPress user this week. They wanted to allow a WordPress user to view WooCommerce orders, but they did not want this user to be able to edit the orders. Normally there are two roles in WooCommerce called “Shop Manager” and “Customer“. In order to solve this request, we…
Indiegraf is a 3-year old company that is having a positive impact for many WordPress publishers. They’re a WordPress hosting platform for publishers, in a similar space to Newspack, PaywallProject, Lede, and others.
Here at PublishPress, our focus is on creating publishing workflows in WordPress. This includes allowing you to create custom statuses in WordPress. However, before moving on to more advanced workflows, people often need some clarity on the basic workflow features in WordPress. For example, what exactly is the difference between “Pending Review” and “Draft”?
If you go to the “Users” screen in WordPress, you will be able to assign users to normal roles, such as Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor, and Administrator. However, there is another option called “No role for this site”. You can think of this option as a type of blocking option. Any users who are moved…
Are you frustrated by inconsistent content on your WordPress site? Do you find that some posts are missing the featured image? Perhaps you keep discovering posts with broken links? Or do you regularly see posts that lack any Tags or Categories? PublishPress Checklists is the solution. This plugin can ensure that your content is consistently…
The Gutenberg block editor makes it easy to add and edit content in WordPress. However, sometimes you want to do just the opposite! Sometimes your content should not be updated. With the PublishPress plugins, you can completely prevent some users from adding new blocks to your WordPress content. In this guide, I’ll share two ways…
Over the last couple of years, more and more WordPress users have adopted the Gutenberg block editor. We use it for all the PublishPress sites, and an increasing number of support tickets are about Gutenberg. We had an interesting support ticket recently: a customer wanted to hide links in the menu that is attached to…
WordPress sites display an admin toolbar for all logged-in users. This is visible on the frontend of your site and also in the WordPress admin area. This toolbar contains shortcuts to key features in WordPress, but what the user sees will depend on their user role. A user in the “Subscriber” role will only see…
Did you know that every user role in WordPress has a level from 0 to 10? These levels are rarely visible in the WordPress admin area, but they have an important impact on how your site works. The very lowest user role level is given to the Subscriber role and that has a value of…
“Block Permissions” is one of the most popular features in the PublishPress Blocks plugin. This feature allows you to control which blocks are available to different user roles. For example, if you want to prevent some user roles from adding “Table” blocks, you can block them from doing that with this feature. The system is…