Here at PublishPress, we’re very focused on the publishing experience in WordPress.
In recent weeks, there’s been very interesting news for WordPress publishers with the launch of Newspack.
Newspack is a project from Automattic (the owners of WordPress.com, but not WordPress.org) that aims to help small newspapers run their sites on WordPress.
Here’s the official description of Newspack:
We had a really interesting question from a PublishPress user:
We have many clients who we write posts for. We write the posts 6 months in advance, and get them approved by the clients. Is this possible with the PublishPress plugins?
The answer is “Yes”, you can do this. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up an approval process for WordPress posts.
Here at PublishPress, we’re focused on the publishing experience in WordPress. And there’s interesting news on the horizon for WordPress publishers.
Matt Mullenweg and the WordPress team want to bring Google Docs-style editing to the new Gutenberg editor. This means that multiple people can be updating the same document at the same time.
At the beginning of October, we released PublishPress Revisions Free onto WordPress.org.
This is a major update to the old Revisionary plugin and so we called it version 2.0. It has a much improved interface for managing, approving and scheduling revisions to your WordPress content.
Thanks to everyone who has sent in feedback. We’ve been listening intently and have now released 10 updates.
Version 2.10 is now out and it has more improvements. In particular, there are improvements to the “Preview” feature.
We recently looked at many different plugins to find the best one for tracking content changes.
The Simple History plugin was our favorite. Simple History allows site administrators to keep a log of all performed tasks performed within a WordPress site.
This plugin generates two tables in the WordPress database and these store all the changes to your site. These records will be deleted after 60 days to stop your database getting too big.
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. So whenever I make a writing mistake in WordPress, I know there’s always a revision available so I can fix things.
However, if you have a busy site, and WordPress is constantly saving revisions, you will soon end up with a LOT of revisions. These can slow down your site by filling up your database with unnecessary data.
PublishPress 1.29 is out this week with a new feature: a Notifications Log.
You can see a screenshot of the Notifications Log in action below. You can access this screen by going to PublishPress > Notifications Log in your WordPress admin area.
By default, very few users are allowed to access the WooCommerce admin area.
WooCommerce stores can contain a lot of sensitive information, so only users who have the “Administrator” or “Shop Manager” roles can access the WooCommerce admin.
The Gutenberg editor delivered a lot of cool improvements for WordPress users. One of these is that it’s now much easier to add code your WordPress posts.
I’m going to show you two ways to add code in Gutenberg. The first option allows you to add whole blocks of code. The second option allows you to highlight code inside paragraphs.
We develop a plugin called PublishPress Revisions that allows you to submit, approve and schedule changes to your WordPress content.
However, PublishPress Revisions doesn’t (yet) keep an easily visible log of all your content changes. This week, someone emailed us and wanted to know if this was possible using another plugin.
I decided to install and test seven plugins that can track content changes.
