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Can WordPress Authors Moderate Comments on Their Posts?

This week, a PublishPress customer wanted to understand the relationship between authors and comments their WordPress posts. The customer wanted to know if authors could see manage comments on their own posts. This tutorial is a guide to understanding the control that users have over comments on posts. You can also click this link if…

PublishPress Future Now Supports Other Plugins and Imports

The PublishPress Future plugin lets you set up automatic changes to your posts. You can pick a day for PublishPress Future to do things like delete a post, switch its status, or update what categories it’s in. These changes are called Future Actions. The latest version of PublishPress Future Pro has a cool, new feature…

What is a Post Status in WordPress?

Have you ever wondered what “Draft” or “Pending Review” mean when you’re writing a WordPress post? These are called “post statuses”. In this guide, I’m going to introduce you to “Draft”, “Pending Review” and the other post statuses that are available for WordPress posts. These statuses control whether WordPress posts are visible to the entire…

WordPress Users Can’t Edit the Details for Media Files

A PublishPress user wrote to us with question: I have just installed your PublishPress Capabilities plugin, which is working almost perfectly. The problem that I’m having is that my user can upload images but can not edit the Alternative Text, Title, Description and Caption of the image, which I need the user to be able…

How to Add Tags and Categories to WordPress Pages

Categories and Tags are the main ways you can organize WordPress content. However, on a normal WordPress site, both Categories and Tags are only available for Posts. This means that you can’t organize your Pages, unless you use the Parent/Child setup. You also can’t perform some useful tasks with PublishPress plugins. For example, you could…

PublishPress Authors Now Has Categories for Your Creators

We always listen carefully to your feedback. Sometimes that feedback is so overwhelming that we have to build a feature. This happened with PublishPress Authors. The PublishPress Authors plugin allows you to create, manage and display authors for all your WordPress content. Your feedback was that you wanted to have different types of authors. Imagine…

PublishPress Checklists Has a New Interface and OpenAI Integration

With the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can choose pre-publishing requirements for your content. We’ve just released version 2.10, which has a new interface and also integrates with OpenAI. In this guide, I’ll show you how the interface makes PublishPress Checklists easier to use. I’ll also explain how to use OpenAI to automatically scan and approve…

The PublishPress Statuses Plugin is Now Available

This month we’ve got some exciting news to share with you. We’ve released a new plugin called PublishPress Statuses. Have you ever wanted to label a WordPress post something other than “Draft” or “Pending Review”? PublishPress Statuses allows you to create additional statuses for your posts. For example, you can add statuses such as “In…