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:
PublishPress Authors is the best plugin for adding many authors to one WordPress post. With this plugin, you can create detailed author profiles that linked to WordPress users, or you can add guest authors.
Version 3.9 is now available for both the Free and Pro versions of PublishPress Authors.
The main new feature in these releases is integration with the “Bulk Edit” feature of WordPress. This gives you the ability to quickly add authors to posts.
This week, a PublishPress user asked us if it is possible to customize the permissions for a single WordPress user.
The answer is “yes”, and in this guide I'll show you two ways to do that.
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”?
We develop the PublishPress Revisions plugin that allows you to submit, moderate, approve, and schedule revisions.
This plugin is built on top of the core revisions feature in WordPress.
Our Revisions Pro plugin is able to capture all of the data that has changed in your WordPress posts. However, that is not true of the normal revisions feature.
Version 3.0 of the PublishPress plugin is now available.
This release focuses on improving the Notifications feature. You'll find that the Notifications are now more stable, and the Notifications Log is more useful.
There is an extra reason that we labeled this as “3.0” rather than simply continuing to “2.5”. There are some relatively minor breaking changes in this version.
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user this week:
I am trying to allow a some user role to choose an existing Tag, but not allow them to create new Tags. This was simple enough to do with Categories, but I cannot figure it out for Tags.
This was a great question that requires some explanation.
As everyone waited to find out the winners in last week's elections for US president and Congress, one winner was immediately obvious: WordPress.
Earlier in the election cycle, we saw the PublishPress plugin used by more than one presidential candidate. Even so, it was still surprising to see WordPress used in almost every 2020 race, from the presidency to Senate and House seats.
Yanir Seroussi is a data scientist for Automattic and lives in Brisbane, Australia.
It can be hard to remember with all the craziness of 2020, but the year started with epic bushfires in Australia. It was the worst fire season on record with more than 15,000 different fires and nearly three billion animals killed or displaced. Those fires were widely blamed on climate change.
Yanir was motivated to start working to combat climate change. Automattic has servers in many data centers around the world, operated by different providers. Yanir wanted to know if it was possible to reduce or eliminate the carbon emissions from all those servers. The answer was “yes!”
Yanir wrote about how Automattic became carbon neutral, and in this interview we find out more of the story.
Here at PublishPress, we’re very focused on the publishing experience in WordPress. We love to see large organizations use WordPress to publish their content.
I analyzed the main sites for all major branches of the US federal government and found that WordPress is used for several very famous websites. I’ll showcase them in this blog post.
