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How We Show Related Posts in WordPress

Written on July 22, 2021.

We have seen writers and publishers use WordPress to share their thoughts on 10,000's of topics. WordPress is a great platform to talk about everything from science and tech to intimate, personal thoughts.

But all of us want to be heard. We write so that we have a voice. We want people to stay on our site, read our work, and engage with what we have to say.

One of the best ways to achieve all those goals is to add “Related Posts” area to your posts. Once someone finishes reading your post, they'll immediately see links to similar posts.

We do this here at PublishPress. You'll always find a “Related Posts” area on our blog. In this guide, I'll show you how create and optimize this feature.

Control the Size of Featured Images with PublishPress Checklists

Written on April 2, 2021.

When you use the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can define tasks that content creators must complete before their posts are published.

For example, you can make sure your posts have a minimum or maximum number of words. Or you can require that all the images in the post have ALT text.

One of the most popular options allows you to force all posts to have a featured image. PublishPress Checklists Pro now takes this one step further: you can require a specific height and width for all your featured images. This feature is useful because many themes only look good if your featured images are the correct size.

How to Check for Broken Links in WordPress Posts

Written on February 11, 2021.

If you write a lot of WordPress posts, it's easy to make mistakes. That's why we built the PublishPress Checklists plugin. It automatically catches many of our errors before we publish.

In this post, we'll introduce a feature in PublishPress Checklists that checks for broken links in your content (both external links and internal links).

How to Limit the Excerpt Length In WordPress Posts

Written on February 2, 2021.

This question came across the PublishPress support desk this week:

Do you know how to set a maximum character length on the excerpt field? I need to be the point of entry, rather than when displaying it on the frontend. I want to force the user to write an excerpt of a certain length.

Yes, this is possible with the PublishPress Checklists plugin. If you need more details, check out our beginners guide to excerpts.

What is the Excerpt for WordPress Posts?

Written on February 1, 2021.

Many WordPress themes rely on Excerpts, but they can be a mystery to many users.

In this post, I'll explain what an Excerpt is, how you create them, where they appear, and how you can get more control over how they're used on your site.

Choose a Minimum and Maximum Number of Tags and Categories in WordPress

Written on January 15, 2021.

Tags and Categories are the two ways you can categorize your WordPress content.

There's often a debate about the right way to use Tags and Categories in order to optimize your sites for search engines.

Let's take a look at advice on how to use Tags and Categories …

PublishPress Checklists 2.4 Has New Approval and Link Features

Written on September 22, 2020.

PublishPress Checklists is a plugin that we've been working on throughout 2020. With this plugin, you can define tasks that users must complete before content is published.

For example, you can make sure your posts have a minimum or maximum number of words. Or you can ensure that all your posts have a featured image.

After working on PublishPress Checklists all year, the plugin is finally at a point where honestly I can say, “This is awesome!”

Version 2.4 of Checklists is now available with new features that I've been looking forward to for a long time.

How to Control Featured Image Permissions in WordPress

Written on August 19, 2020.

A couple of PublishPress users have asked us about the “Featured Image” feature in WordPress.

We have already talked about forcing users to add featured images and how to control the size of featured images.

These users wanted to know if it is possible to control who can add featured images to content. Yes, you can control this in WordPress, although it's not entirely straightforward.

This image below shows where you will see the “Featured Image” box when editing a post:

PublishPress Checklists Now Supports Yoast SEO, Internal Links and More

Written on July 27, 2020.

PublishPress Checklists is the plugin if you want to control the quality of your WordPress content.

You can define tasks that authors must complete before content is published. These tasks are things like writing a minimum number of words, or adding a featured image.

PublishPress Checklists Now Allows Some Users to Skip Required Tasks

Written on May 18, 2020.

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:

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