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,…
A large number of PublishPress users have sites with custom post types. Sometimes this is done using custom code. Sometimes it’s done with a theme. Sometimes it’s done with a plugin. However, although these methods can provide many features, they rarely deal with permissions. This can be important … these custom post types often hold…
PublishPress Capabilities is the plugin that gives you control over all the permissions on your WordPress site. In the last few days, there have been two big milestones for the plugin: Capabilities now has over 100,000 active installs of the Free version, according to WordPress.org. We released Capabilities 2.0 with lots of new features for Free…
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user this week: “Is there any way to automatically add a specific tag if the user is in a certain role?“ For example, Authors will always get “Tag A” added and Editors will always get “Tag B” added. Yes, this is possible with a little code. Once…
There is a small, but growing, number of WordPress developers who are interested in environmental issues. WordPress now runs an incredible 40% of all websites. The work that we do has an impact. If WordPress sites consume large amounts of energy, then that has knock-on effects for the whole web. I’ve searched for some of…
If you write a lot of WordPress posts, it’s easy to make mistakes. That’s why we built the PublishPress Checklists plugin. It automatically catches many of our errors before we publish. In this post, we’ll introduce a feature in PublishPress Checklists that checks for broken links in your content (both external links and internal links).
Several of our PublishPress plugins allow you to control what users can do on your WordPress site. These plugins allow you to change user permissions via the WordPress admin area. However, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes. PublishPress customers often have questions from users about WordPress permissions and where they are stored in…
WordPress has a useful block called “Gallery” which allows you show to multiple images together. With the PublishPress Blocks plugin, you can improve the gallery block and show WordPress images inside a lightbox modal. This feature is not available in the normal WordPress image block.
Johannes is the Managing Director of Raidboxes, a fast-growing WordPress hosting company based in Germany. He’s also one of the most interesting people I’ve met in WordPress. I first heard of Raidboxes when they were giving out trees to Wordcamp attendees! Johannes and his team think differently. Raidboxes is growing fast, doubling every year and…