Over the last few years, customers have sent in many feature requests for PublishPress. Some of those are requests are unique to one person. Some of these requests are sent in by dozens of customers. We try really hard to build those features!
Top of the feature request list has always been an activity log. People want to understand exactly what’s happening on their WordPress site.
So we have built an activity log for WordPress. It's called “Logtivity” and it has just launched!
PublishPress 3.4 is available now, and it has a completely new editorial calendar.
The old calendar had been around for many years and was starting to show its age. The old version used PHP for 80% of the codebase and only relied on Javascript for the drag-and-drop actions. This legacy code meant that the calendar was slow to load, slow to refresh, and difficult for us to update.
By default, WordPress users in the admin area can see all the Posts on the site, regardless of whether they are the author.
This is not a problem for many sites. After all, most Posts on most sites are publicly available – there's no need to hide them.
However, in some situations, site owners don't want authors to see the Posts that other users are working on.
This week, a PublishPress user asked us the following question:
“I was wondering if there is a way for us to copy-and-paste roles and permissions over from one website to another website, so that we don't have to set up the permissions for each website we have to make.”
One PublishPress user wrote to us and asked about this situation: “I would like every user to get a place where they can enter their own journal entries that no one else can see.”
This it is possible to set up private journals with the PublishPress plugins, and I'll explain how in this post.
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 use Categories to control who can read certain Pages, or could force users to create Pages with a specific Category.
The solution to this problem is a plugin such as TaxoPress. This plugin allows to add Tags and/or Categories to Pages. You can also show both Post and Pages together, if they share a taxonomy term.
Follow along with this guide and I'll show you how to organize your WordPress Pages.
If you use the PublishPress Capabilities plugin, you're going to find the new “Editor Features” really useful!
What does “Editor Features” do? It allows you to clean up the post editing screen. You can decide what users see when they're writing posts.
WP Job Manager is a popular plugin with over 100,000 active installs and a wide range of available add-ons. This plugin can add job boards to your WordPress site so people can look for work and post their resumes. WP Job Manager is built by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. There's a free version on WordPress.org and the add-ons are at WPJobManager.com.
A PublishPress customer wanted to create a user who could manage the jobs and resumes inside the WP Job Manager. However, they didn't want to give this user access to any other area of the site.
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a “Job Manager” role on your site. We'll also explore the capabilities available in the WP Job Manager plugin.
PublishPress Blocks is the plugin that gives you more control over the WordPress block editor.
Over the last few weeks, we've released two major updates to PublishPress Blocks. Versions 2.7 and 2.8 arrive with new blocks and usability improvements.
Here's a guide to five things to look out for when you install the latest version of PublishPress Blocks.
Nested blocks are a really useful feature in the Gutenberg editor. If you haven't used them yet, you almost certainly will when the new “Full-Site Editing” changes arrive in WordPress 5.8. At that point, you will be able to build complete webpages in Gutenberg and I guarantee you'll be using nested blocks.
Nested blocks makes it easy to create advanced layouts. This is because nested blocks are blocks inside other blocks. A simple example is a Column block with a text block inside. Another example is a pricing block with a “Buy Now” button block inside.
Some common uses of nested blocks are the default Columns, Cover, or Group blocks.
