In some situations, you may need to completely refresh your WordPress site.
If you find yourself needing to reset your WordPress user permissions, this is possible with a plugin called PublishPress Capabilities. This plugin has an option to delete all the current permissions and user roles, and restore the WordPress defaults.
Update: this plugin is now called “PublishPress Capabilities”.
I'm delighted to say that the Capability Manager Enhanced plugin is now part of the PublishPress family.
This is one of the most popular Permissions plugins on WordPress.org, with over 70,000 active installs.
One use for the Reminders feature in PublishPress is to send important reminders to authors AFTER content is published.
One thing you can do to help publicize your content is send out pre-filled social media links. All the authors need to do is click the links and they can share the post on social media.
Here's how the content of their PublishPress notification looks:
Let's see how to set up similar notifications on your site.
First, follow this setup guide. That will show you how to create the notification. The only change to make is selecting “After the content is published”. This image below shows how your notification should look:
Now we get to the main content of the notification.
There are sites that can help you generate social media sharing links. The one I used for this tutorial is sharelinkgenerator.com.
Here's an example of a Twitter link you can use:
https://twitter.com/home?status=[psppno_post_title]%20[psppno_post permalink]%20via%20%40PublishPresscom
Remember that [psppno_post_title] represents the title of the post and [psppno_post permalink] represents the permalink. So if you clicked the Twitter link for this post, you'd see a box like this:
Isn't that easy? All the author needs to do is click “Tweet” to complete the process.
You can do the same thing for Facebook also. Here's an example of a Facebook link you can use:
https://facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=[psppno_post permalink]
The Facebook link is much simpler. You can't include the title or a link to your own account. But if your author clicks the link, it will still be an easy process to share the post. This image shows what they will see:
Finally, let's look at an example from Linkedin. Here's a link you can use for sharing posts on Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=[psppno_post permalink]&title=[psppno_post_title]&summary=&source=PublishPress
Here's what users will see when they share on Linkedin:
Hopefully this tip will save your authors a few clicks. Send your authors a PublishPress notification after their content goes live, and make it easy for them to share it far and wide!
If you a a WordPress multisite network, it can be helpful to standardize your setup across the various sites. In this guide, I'll show you how to control user roles and permissions across the network.
Update: this plugin is now called “PublishPress Capabilities”.
This month, we added Capability Manager Enhanced to the PublishPress suite. This was part of our acquisition of over a dozen plugins.
Capability Manager Enhanced is a super-popular plugin with over 70,000 active users. This plugin allows you to edit the user permissions on your WordPress site.
One PublishPress user came to us with an interesting question. They wanted to give their WooCommerce a specific set of permissions: edit and duplicate only their own WooCommerce products.
This seems like it should be a straightforward task, but it turned out to be more complicated than we expected. This post will explain how we solved the problem using the PublishPress Capabilities plugin.
Update: In October 2019, Revisionary was rebranded to PublishPress Revisions.
One week ago, we announced the acquisition of over a dozen plugins.
That's a lot of plugins, and over the next few months we'll be moving all of them here to PublishPress.com.
One of the new plugins is Revisionary, the best choice for managing, scheduling and moderating WordPress revisions. Here's what Revisionary allows you to do:
Many requests from PublishPress revolve around published posts. Some site owners want to stop their users from updating published content.
Other site owners want to go further and stop their users from editing published content at all. This is because their content often needs an approval process. And what's the point of an approval process if people can go in later and make any changes they want?
We’re delighted to announce that PublishPress has acquired Press Permit.
We have been talking about working together since early 2018. Yes, the companies do have very similar names, but there's more to it than that!
Both Press Permit and PublishPress are known for developing WordPress plugins that focus on publishing.
Version 1.19 of PublishPress is available this week, together with updates all for all the PublishPress extensions.
Here's an overview of everything that's new, plus a teaser for some very big news!
