Welcome to episode #1 of the PublishPress podcast. In these podcast, we’re talk with people involved in WordPress publishing. You’ll hear interview with publishers who happen to be using WordPress, and also people in the WordPress space. In this first episode, we chat with Seth Rubenstein, Lead Engineer at the Pew Research Center. He’s been…
Welcome to the sixth annual review from PublishPress. You can read our previous reviews for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. We write these annual reviews for you, our customers. Thank you for all your investment in our work. We hope the reviews help you get a better understanding of our vision for these plugins….
PublishPress Capabilities 2.17 is out now. This is our final big release of 2024, and it’s a good one! If you’re using the free version of PublishPress Capabilities, you’ll see a new “Redirects” screen to control where users are sent when they log in and log out. If you’re using the Pro version, you will…
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user this week: I am trying to allow user in one 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…
In the latest version of PublishPress Capabilities Pro, you can now rename, redesign and rearrange your WordPress admin menus. Previously, it was possible to control who could access each admin menu. Now you can change the name and icon for each menu link. You can also re-arrange the order of the links. This screenshot below…
By default, WordPress users which access to the “Posts” screen can see all the Posts on the site, regardless of whether they are the author or can edit then. 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,…
I’ve written often that many areas of online publishing are absolutely dominated by WordPress. I was delighted to see that was reflected on the stages of WordCamp US in Portland. We got talks from the New York Post, CNN, iOne Digital, Vox Media, Pew Research, Grist, Harvard, Wikimedia, Time, Disney, and RecipeTin. That’s a lot…
In September last year, I wrote about the launch of Press Forward and how they had promised to invest $500 million in local news organizations over the next five years. It has been a year now, and that money is starting to flow to WordPress publishers.
I’m super excited to share PublishPress Future 4.0 with you. The PublishPress Future plugin allows you to schedule changes to posts. Version 4.0 enables you to schedule changes using advanced, drag-and-drop workflows. Here are some examples of what’s possible:
PublishPress Checklists is the best plugin to make sure your content is ready to go live. With PublishPress Checklists, you can choose pre-publishing requirements for your content. Here are some example requirements: The newest version of PublishPress Checklists adds improved support for WooCommerce, Yoast SEO, and the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin.