If I had to pick a word to describe my experience with large WordPress sites, it's “overwhelming”.
There are so many admin notices, plugin alerts, review requests, and other demands for your attention. In the post editor, and particularly in Gutenberg, there are a ton of sidebar, tabs, settings, metaboxes, and configuration options.
PublishPress Blocks is one of the most popular plugins for Gutenberg blocks with over 30,000 users.
In the latest release of PublishPress Blocks Pro, you'll find some really cool new design options, including these:
In this guide, I'll give you an introduction to all these major new features in PublishPress Blocks.
Here at PublishPress, our focus is on creating publishing workflows in WordPress. This includes allowing you to create custom statuses in WordPress.
However, before moving on to more advanced workflows, people often need some clarity on the basic workflow features in WordPress.
For example, what exactly is the difference between “Pending Review” and “Draft”?
PublishPress Series is the best way to manage newspaper and magazine issues in WordPress.
To help more users, we've just moved one of the most useful features from the Pro version to the Free version.
All users of PublishPress Series now have access to the “Publish Series” screen. This is available under the “Posts” link in the WordPress admin area:
PublishPress Capabilities 2.3.5 is available now and the major new feature is a “Roles” screen. This is one place where you can view and manage all the user roles on your site.
This Roles screen is going to be the cornerstone of many new features we'll add to PublishPress Capabilities in the next few months.
In this release, you'll also find a new Export and Import feature to help you move settings between sites.
Over the last few weeks, we've been working on a large number of improvements to PublishPress Blocks Pro.
In the latest version, you'll see dozens of new design, layout, and alignment options, plus lots of other improvements. Almost all of the ideas for improvements have come from PublishPress users.
Here's a rundown of the new features in the Pro version of PublishPress Blocks.
We recently wrote about the edit_posts permission in WordPress.
This permission is incredibly powerful. The edit_posts permission controls access to at least 6 important writing features in WordPress:
WordPress sites display an admin toolbar for all logged-in users. This is visible on the frontend of your site and also in the WordPress admin area.
This toolbar contains shortcuts to key features in WordPress. A user in the Subscriber role will only see a few features. A user in the Administrator role may see a very busy toolbar, particularly on a site with many plugins.
In this blog post, we'll give you an introduction to what users in different roles may see in the admin toolbar. If you want to hide the admin toolbar for users, follow this guide.
PublishPress customers have had some challenging questions for us. In this tutorial, I'm going to explain the answer to a challenging WooCommerce question that came in recently.
One PublishPress customer has a large segment of their customer base wishing to call up and place an order over the phone. To make this happen, they needed to allow users in the “Shop Manager” role to pay for customers. They installed a user switching plugin so that the Shop Managers could log in as the customers and complete the payment.
PublishPress Authors 3.16 is now available and it has a new feature that many customers have requested. You can now allow users to update their own author profiles.
If a user has an author profile linked to their account, they will now see an “Author Profile” screen in the menu. They can update their profile information here and it will update on the front of your site.