Welcome to PublishPress in 2019.

To start 2019, we’ve released new versions of PublishPress and several add-ons.

The Multiple Authors add-on has new features. The Permissions, Content Checklist and Slack add-ons have bug-fixes.

WordPress 5.0 is out now and it does cause a key issue with PublishPress.

However, we’re actively working to solve the problems that Gutenberg causes, and we’re still rolling out new features.

Here’s an overview of what’s new in PublishPress 1.18.

WordPress 5 is now available.

Version 5 brings the new Gutenberg editor to WordPress. If you’re unfamiliar with the new editor, the official launch post is a good place to start.

The Gutenberg editor is really cool and it is the future of WordPress. But, Gutenberg is a big change from the old editor and it does remove some features that WordPress users have relied on.

Version 1.18 of PublishPress is available today to provide some support for Gutenberg. However, we do not recommend that you update to Gutenberg yet, if you want to use all the features of PublishPress.

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been working hard on PublishPress compatibility with Gutenberg.

Gutenberg has been a challenge, to say the least. But we’ll have more details on that in another blog post next week.

In the meantime, PublishPress 1.17 is available today. It adds some features, fixes a security hole and resolves some bugs.

Here’s an overview of what’s new in PublishPress 1.17:

A few weeks ago, we published a guide showing how to send reminders to authors before their content was published.

One PublishPress user (thanks Andy McIlwain!)  told us about their interesting twist on this technique. 

This week’s PublishPress release squeezes some bugs from the main plugin.

You can download version 1.16.3 of PublishPress from inside your WordPress site, or from WordPress.org. Here are the key fixes:

We do our best to write a lot of documentation for PublishPress.

However, many of you find it easier to follow video tutorials. So we’ve started posting videos on the PublishPress YouTube channel.

There will be 2 new videos every week about PublishPress. We’ll also cover related topics such as WordPress content workflows and user permissions.

Does it matter how many words you write on a topic?

Some books are famously short. “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” barely reaches 60 pages, but it has inspired movies and TV shows for decades.

Some books are famously long. “Moby Dick” is over 700 pages, but it has also been enormously popular for over 100 years.

This week we released a new version of the main PublishPress plugin. You may notice three new faces smiling back at you from inside PublishPress.

PublishPress 1.6 is available now. The major change in this version is on the license screens.

We heard from PublishPress users that our old approach was cumbersome, so we’ve made improvements.