“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…
Welcome to the fourth annual review from PublishPress. You can read our previous reviews for 2019, 2020, and 2021. We write these annual reviews for at least three reasons: Here’s our recap of key events for PublishPress in 2022.
The PublishPress Authors plugin can now provide schema data to help search engines find your author information. This is possible if you’re using the Yoast SEO or Rank Math SEO plugins. If you have the PublishPress Authors plugin installed, plus either Yoast or Rank Math, the schema data will be available automatically. No configuration is…
Using the PublishPress Blocks plugin, you can control how and when blocks appear on your site. The “Block Controls” feature gives you a wide range of options, including these: In version 3.1.2 of PublishPress Blocks, these controls are improved and expanded. Here’s what’s new in this release.
Starting in March 2023, we will start dropping support for PHP 5.6. After that date, when we update PublishPress plugins, they may no longer be fully compatible with PHP 5.6. If your site is using PHP 5.6, please plan to update to at least PHP 7.2 in the next few months. During 2023, it will…
You won’t be surprised to learn that WordPress is very, very careful about who can delete media files. Only Administrators are able to delete images and files in your Media Library. Anyone who is a Subscriber, Contributor, Author and Editor roles is not permitted to delete media items.
This week we talked with a PublishPress customer who wanted to build an approval process for his website. His goal is to allow administrators to assign empty posts to authors, who can then add the content and pass them back to the administrator for approval. Here are the four steps in that workflow: In this…
Should you use the AuthO WordPress service? First, let’s make sure we clear up some naming, because Auth0 is a service with a confusing name. OAuth (short for “Open Authorization”) is an open standard for user management. Anyone can use the OAuth protocols and frameworks. Auth0 has a similar name and also specializes in user…
Managing users across multiple WordPress sites can be a challenging task for administrators. In this article we’ll discuss some of the most common problems managing users across multiple sites, and propose some solutions.
Back in 2017, our team was just starting to focus on WordPress development. The first plugin we launched was simply called “PublishPress”. We never expected to end up with at least eight other plugins. Over the last five years, we’ve added more plugins all with variations on the “PublishPress” name. So it is definitely time…