Jen Kramer has taught web design for decades. Her career spans Harvard, community colleges, LinkedIn, Frontend Masters and now Annie Cannons, a nonprofit boot camp for human trafficking survivors. In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Jen talks about her career and how web design teaching has changes over the years. Jen believes that good…
PublishPress Future is the plugin for scheduling changes to your content. Version 4.5 is now available. This is a major new release and it really expands what is possible with the plugin. There is a new “Update post” action available. This opens a world of possibilities for scheduling updates to your content. With the “Update…
Several of our PublishPress plugins allow you to control what users can do on your WordPress site. These plugins allow you to change user permissions via the WordPress admin area. However, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes. PublishPress customers often have questions from users about WordPress permissions and where they are stored in…
The Beaver Builder plugin is an excellent good page-builder for WordPress sites. This week, one PublishPress customer asked us if it was possible to allow some WordPress users to edit a single page with Beaver Builder. Our first thought was “yes, this is easy”. We’ve done it before many times using this approach, this approach…
Kyle Van Deusen runs the popular The Admin Bar community, a platform for WordPress agency owners and freelancers. He’s been able to grow the community to over 12,000 people because he’s still an agency owner and is constantly dealing with the same problems as his members. On this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Kyle talks…
You won’t be surprised to learn that WordPress is very, very careful about who can delete media files. Only Administrators are able to delete images and files in your Media Library. Anyone who is a Subscriber, Contributor, Author and Editor roles is not permitted to delete media items.
One PublishPress user asked how to create a custom user role that only has access to the “Coupons” area in the WooCommerce Analytics area. They did not want the user to have access to the WooCommerce report menu. This user was a marketing person and only needed to check on the success of their marketing campaigns…
Colin Devroe has been a blogger since the 1990’s. He currently runs Hubbub, a social sharing and website growth plugin for WordPress. He is passionate about helping bloggers succeed. And in 2025, that means owning your audience. On this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Colin shares his vast experience in the blogging industry. He talks…
Brad Williams is the CEO and Co-Founder of WebDevStudios, a leading WordPress agency. He’s been involved in some ground-breaking projects, such as moving Microsoft’s blog networks from closed-source code to WordPress. Microsoft’s adoption of WordPress really helped validate the platform for enterprises.
Tyler Channell runs PaywallProject which is a WordPress stack for news publishers. Tyler recommends that the publishers use a paywall to drive revenue, no matter how small or regional their audience is. When he was in college, Tyler heard a professor say that someone needs to discover a way to make newspapers sustainable. That’s been…