Last month, I wrote about the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress sites. ActivityPub could form the basis for a new social network with your WordPress site as your profile. The time is right to explore alternatives because social media is abandoning publishers. As you’ve probably heard, the Twitter is now called X, and it’s not very…
There are several ways to remove users from your WordPress site, or prevent them from accessing the admin area. For example, you can choose to change the user’s account to “No role for this site“. If you change this setting, the user will be able to log in to your site. And they will be…
Over 10 years ago, I wrote a post with this title: “There is an Open Source Rival to Facebook: WordPress“. In that post I pointed out that WordPress had almost all the features needed to build a social platform and asked, “What might happen if all those WordPress sites were linked together into a network?”
The latest version of PublishPress Blocks has a submenu for “Synced Patterns”. This feature was previously called “Reusable Blocks”. This submenu allows you to reach the “Synced Patterns” / “Reusable blocks” page screen that is normally difficult to find in WordPress. These patterns are an incredibly useful feature in the Gutenberg block editor. They allow…
Thursday, September 7 was a very interesting day for WordPress publishing. We saw a significant investment in the space, with the promise of more to come.
Today we are pleased to announce much improved Composer support for PublishPress plugins. Composer is a tool that developers can use to manage plugins or entire WordPress sites. Previously, it was possible to install the free version of our plugins with Composer. But it was more difficult to install the Pro versions of the plugins….
There are a ton of collaborations happening between smaller publishers at the moment. Two or three journalists don’t have the resources to tackle big topics, but they can when they work on stories together. I find out about many of these stories from the “Center for Cooperative Media” based at Montclair State University in New…
In July, WordPress saw off a strong potential competitor when the Chorus CMS shut down. In August, another competitor continues to quickly fade away. The Washington Post laid off more staff from its Arc XP platform: Last year, the Post declined offers to sell Arc XP, the company’s in house publishing tool and software business,…
One of our PublishPress Authors users wanted to show their Author Fields in a vertical layout, but they were having difficulty in achieving that kind of layout. In this article, we will show you how to display the Author Fields in a stacked / vertical layout. This image below shows the layout we are aiming…
Just over six years ago today, someone posted an idea in the Gutenberg repository on Github. The idea was just five words: “Implement a block for footnotes“. WordPress 6.3 arrived this week with a Footnotes block that is ready for you to use! This is going to be a very useful addition for many WordPress…