The Post Expirator plugin allows you to choose an “expire” date for WordPress posts. When your post is automatically unpublished, you can delete the post, change the status, or update the post categories. The plugin has over 100,000 users and has been working reliably for years. We’re delighted to say that Post Expirator is now part of…
The PublishPress Blocks plugin just got a big upgrade! This plugin now features the best content block in WordPress. If you think that’s hyperbole, you should give it a try. PublishPress Blocks is free on WordPress.org. The block I’m talking about is called “Content Display“. This block allows you to show posts, pages and other content…
A PublishPress user has both Gravity Forms and WooCommerce on their site. They asked this is interesting question: Can I use the Capabilities plugin to give the “Shop Manager” role user access to Gravity Forms entries? The answer is “yes”, and we’ll show you how to do it in this guide. We’re going to be…
Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular plugins in the WordPress world. However, it is a fairly basic plugin that lacks some key features such as access control. In this guide, I’ll show you how to control access to Contact Form 7 features. We’ll use the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. If you want to…
Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular WordPress plugins ever, with over 5 million installs. Contact Form 7 is so popular that even it’s add-ons can have 100,000’s of users. Click here for our guide to Contact Form 7 permissions and there’s also a guide to controlling access to Contact Form 7 admin…
The Gutenberg editor is good, and with the PublishPress Blocks plugin, it’s great! PublishPress Blocks builds on top of the basic Gutenberg editor and add all sorts of useful extra features. For example, with PublishPress Blocks you have more options for the table block. The Advanced Table block is based on the default Table block in Gutenberg. This…
When you use the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can define tasks that content creators must complete before their posts are published. For example, you can make sure your posts have a minimum or maximum number of words. Or you can require that all the images in the post have ALT text. One of the most…
By default, WooCommerce products don’t show the default “Authors” feature in WordPress. The WooCommerce developers made this choice for a good reason. Posts, Pages and other content normally need an “author”. However, eCommerce products might have a “Vendor” or “Manufacturer”, but not often an “author”.
Why does it always happen on a Friday afternoon? One recent Friday afternoon, we had a panic here at PublishPress. We made a minor change to one of the options in Easy Digital Downloads – that’s the eCommerce plugin we use on this site. Suddenly, all the subscription plans were broken. Whenever anyone tried to…
This week, one PublishPress customer was in a situation where they needed to create Tags based on the Authors of a post. The goal was that when someone writes a post, their name was automatically added as a Tag. Once this was done, the customer could use the Tags to trigger other functionality. For example,…