By default, WordPress users which access to the “Posts” screen can see all the Posts on the site, regardless of whether they are the author or can edit then. This is not a problem for many sites. After all, most Posts on most sites are publicly available – there’s no need to hide them. However,…
“Additional CSS” is a feature from WordPress core that was first introduced on WordPress 4.7. This feature was initially created to make it easier for users to customize their site’s CSS without the need for additional plugins or directly editing their theme. You can normally find this feature by navigating to Appearance -> Customize ->…
PublishPress Revisions has a new feature called “Revision Archive”. This is one place to find all the revisions for content on your site. Normally it’s really difficult to view revisions in WordPress. The only way to access them is via a small link inside each individual post. “Revision Archive” solves this problem by displaying all…
This week, a PublishPress customer wanted to understand the relationship between authors and comments their WordPress posts. The customer wanted to know if authors could see manage comments on their own posts. This tutorial is a guide to understanding the control that users have over comments on posts. You can also click this link if…
The moderate_comments capability is one of the more confusing permissions in WordPress. It controls who can manage and post comments on your site. I know many of you want to control who can manage or post comments on your site, so in this guide I’ll explain how this capability works. You may also find it…
The Gutenberg block editor makes it easy to add and edit content in WordPress. However, sometimes you want to do just the opposite! Sometimes your content should not be updated. It is now possible to lock blocks so that they can not be edited. This feature was introduced in WordPress 6.0.
By default, WordPress provides pages that display the posts written by each author. These author pages will normally be located at a URL like this /author/username/. For example, you can find all my PublishPress posts by clicking on this link. That URL is a good example of how these pages work. However, these author pages…
PublishPress Series is the plugin that allows you to organize posts into issues or series. With the release of PublishPress Series version 2.11.4 we’ve made two significant improvements to how the plugin works. In this guide, I’ll introduce those two changes.
One of the things I love about WordPress is that the project has a clearly-stated philosophy. One of the principles is to design for 80% of users and leave plugins to fill in the more advanced features. This is happening with the Gutenberg block editor. Many developers are adding extra features on top of the…
The PublishPress Future plugin allows you to make automatic changes to posts. pages and other content types. On a date you choose, PublishPress Future can delete your post, change the status, or update the post categories, or make other changes. We’ve just released version 3.0 of Future. This version of the plugin is a major…