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The Knight Foundation is Paying 24 Newsrooms to Upgrade Their Websites. 20 Choose WordPress.

Written on June 30, 2020. Leave a Comment

The Knight Foundation is a charitable organization with deep roots in the news world. The foundation was started by two brothers, James and John Knight. They were part of Knight-Ridder, which was one of the largest newspaper chains in the US.

The Knight Foundation now invests heavily in supporting journalism. They've just awarded grants worth $2 million to 24 newspapers. The goal is to help with “the adoption or management of a digital publishing system … with the aim of increasing revenue, membership and audience engagement.”

AsBlocks Shows The Future of Collaborative Editing in WordPress

Written on June 30, 2020. Leave a Comment

Here at PublishPress, we’re focused on the publishing experience in WordPress. And lately we've been learning about new publishing features that may be coming to the new Gutenberg editor.

Back in November 2019, we wrote about collaborative Google Docs-style editing in WordPress. This image gives a good idea of what we're talking about with multiple people collaborating on the same document:

10 WordPress Plugins. 10 Different Approaches to Translations.

Written on June 25, 2020. Leave a Comment

Sometimes the simplest questions can lead you down the biggest rabbit holes.

A few weeks ago, I asked our team, “What is the best way to translate WordPress plugins?“

We need an answer because we've been growing quickly here at PublishPress. More users are asking if our plugins are available in different languages.

PublishPress Revisions Supports Pods and LearnDash

Written on June 11, 2020. Leave a Comment

There are new versions available for both PublishPress Revisions Free and Pro.

PublishPress Revisions Pro is now at version 2.3.7 and has support for the LearnDash and Pods plugins.

All 1,000 PublishPress Customers Can Get a Free Penguin

Written on June 1, 2020. 6 Comments

PublishPress launched in 2017. Today we're pleased to share the news that we've just reached a big milestone: 1,000 active customers!

We decided to celebrate by donating some money to the Philadelphia Zoo and asking their penguins to say “thanks” to everyone:

Seriously, we owe a big “Thanks” to all of you who use PublishPress.

Getting to 1,000 customers isn't easy. Unless you're a huge, viral sensation, it often takes software companies about 3 years to reach 1,000 customers. I found some examples of that in the WordPress world:

PublishPress Checklists Now Allows Some Users to Skip Required Tasks

Written on May 18, 2020. 2 Comments

When you use PublishPress Checklists, you set requirements that writers must complete before their content is published.

Here are are some examples of those requirements:

Posts must have a minimum of 600 words.
Pages must have a featured image.
Posts must have between 5 and 10 categories.
Pages must use the Excerpt.

Create WooCommerce Users Who Can Only View Reports

Written on May 12, 2020. Leave a Comment

The PublishPress Capabilities plugin is one of the most popular ways to control permissions for WordPress sites.

One of the most popular uses for PublishPress Capabilities is controlling access to the WooCommerce plugin.

One customer asked us if it's possible to allow users to only view the “Reports” area of WooCommerce. I'm going to show how this is done, using the “Subscriber” user role.

PublishPress Authors Now Supports Divi, Elementor, Yoast and More

Written on May 7, 2020. 2 Comments

Some of the PublishPress plugins have existed for more than 10 years. For example, the PublishPress Revisions plugin was launched back in 2009!

In contrast, the PublishPress Authors plugin is very new. It only launched on WordPress.org in 2020.

How to Hide Alt Text Captions on Gutenberg Image Blocks

Written on May 5, 2020. Leave a Comment

Earlier this week, I was optimizing a post with the new Gutenberg editor in WordPress, trying to improve the search engine optimization.

I added alt text to the image blocks. To my surprise, the alt text automatically appeared as a caption under the images:

PublishPress Revisions Pro Now Supports Divi Theme Builder

Written on April 24, 2020. 4 Comments

This week's release of PublishPress Revisions Pro provides support for the Divi theme and page builder. Divi is one of the most popular page-builders in WordPress, and we've had several requests for this integration.

It's now possible for lower-level users to edit a page with Divi and submit an update for approval.