PublishPress Capabilities 2.3.5 is available now and the major new feature is a “Roles” screen. This is one place where you can view and manage all the user roles on your site. This Roles screen is going to be the cornerstone of many new features we’ll add to PublishPress Capabilities in the next few months….
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been working on a large number of improvements to PublishPress Blocks Pro. In the latest version, you’ll see dozens of new design, layout, and alignment options, plus lots of other improvements. Almost all of the ideas for improvements have come from PublishPress users. Here’s a rundown of the new…
PublishPress customers have had some challenging questions for us. In this tutorial, I’m going to explain the answer to a challenging WooCommerce question that came in recently. One PublishPress customer has a large segment of their customer base wishing to call up and place an order over the phone. To make this happen, they needed…
PublishPress Authors 3.16 is now available and it has a new feature that many customers have requested. You can now allow users to update their own author profiles. If a user has an author profile linked to their account, they will now see an “Author Profile” screen in the menu. They can update their profile…
If you have a busy site with lots of content, it can be difficult to keep it organized. Normally, WordPress sites use Tags and Categories to organize content. However, if you’re publishing 10, 100 or even 1,000’s of posts every day, it can be hard to find and add the correct Tags and Categories. One…
This week, a PublishPress customer asked us about an interesting configuration for their WordPress eCommerce site. The customer wanted to create a WooCommerce Product Editor role. Any users in this role would be responsible for editing all the WooCommerce products, but would not have access to other areas of the site.
In 2018, we launched PublishPress.com as a side-project. In 2019, PublishPress was growing quickly and we began to see it as a project with real potential. So at the end of that year, we started to write year-end reviews. You can read previous reviews for 2019 and 2020. These reviews are for our customers. Thank…
Earlier this week, we had a question from a PublishPress user. They are using PublishPress Permissions to control access to specific posts and pages. In the image below, you can see the metabox from the PublishPress Permissions plugin. For each role, you can choose whether or not they can edit this page. The Author and…
PublishPress Series has a new update this week: version 2.7.1. The PublishPress Series plugin allows you to collect WordPress content together into a series. This is ideal for magazines, newspapers, short-story writers, teachers, comic artists, or anyone who writes multiple posts on the same topic. There are a lot of small fixes in this release,…
If you use the PublishPress Capabilities plugin, please update to the latest version which is currently 2.3.1. A week ago, the WPScan team notified us about a security issue in earlier versions of PublishPress Capabilities. That issue is fixed in 2.3.1, so please update your sites. The WordPress.org plugin team have been very helpful. They…