Having a code problem with your WordPress site? There’s a significant chance that the answer can be found in a PHP error log. Often these error logs are available via hosting company control panels, but also there are many users who can’t access them. In this guide, I’ll show you how to set up PHP…
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…
We received an interesting question this week from a PublishPress user. One of our customers wanted to remove elements from the “Screen Options” dropdown panel in WordPress. The “Screen Options” tab is available in most areas of the WordPress admin area. This image below shows an example from the “Pages” screen.
The common practice of sharing WordPress user accounts makes it easy for agencies to provide site access for both developers and maintainers. But this practice has many downsides. As we’ll discuss below, we don’t recommend sharing WordPress user accounts in any professional setting.
We had an interesting request from a PublishPress user this week. They wanted to allow a WordPress user to view WooCommerce orders but not be able to edit the orders. Normally there are two roles in WooCommerce called “Shop Manager” and “Customer“. We’ll be expanding that list in this guide. This is possible with the…
If you run a WordPress agency, customizing the login experience for the sites you build is a great way to promote your agency and build brand recognition. Here are some helpful plugins to customize the WordPress login screen. These plugins will keep your agency top-of-mind with the site owner when they need changes or new…
Several PublishPress customers have asked us if it’s possible to customize the WooCommerce Order screens. You can can see an example of an Order in the screenshot below. Yes, this is possible with the PublishPress Capabilities Pro plugin, and in this guide I’ll show you how it’s done, using the Editor Features option.
WordPress multisite networks don’t always follow the same rules as regular WordPress sites. User roles and capabilities are very different on multisite networks. One significant difference is the behavior of the unfiltered_html capability. This is a security feature in WordPress that prevents users from using tags such as <iframe> and <embed>, plus also more advanced…
WPML is the acronym for “WordPress Multilingual Plugin”. WPML is a WordPress plugin that enables you to turn any WordPress website into a multilingual website. The PublishPress Capabilities plugin has support for WPML. This means that you can create user roles that are allowed to access specific areas of the WPML plugin.
One of the most common requests we’ve had from users of the PublishPress Authors plugin is the ability to show all your authors on one page. This is now possible with big improvements to the [authors_list] shortcode. This update arrives in PublishPress Authors version 3.20. The [authors_list] shortcode now comes with a variety of different…