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…
Tags, Categories, and other taxonomies are the best way to organize WordPress content. With one click, you can create a Tag or Category that can be used across all the posts on your site. If you have a large number of Tags and Categories, you may have noticed that some of the terms are duplicated….
Many recent local journalism stories can be hard to follow. There are often a lot of organizations involved with confusing names and purposes. That is true in this story about “Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk” also known as “AGWaterDesk”. Ag & Water Desk (as we’ll call them for short) has just received $2.5…
In a previous tutorial, we showed how to hide the “Edit with Elementor” button for specific users. However, one customer pointed out that the tutorial only works for users in the backend of WordPress. They also wanted to hide “Edit with Elementor” link on the WordPress frontend. This is possible with the Frontend Features option…
This week, we launched a new feature that will be useful for almost everyone who builds WordPress sites. PublishPress Capabilities 2.9 introduces a new “Frontend Features” screen. Frontend Features allows you to hide any CSS element or add new CSS. What’s unique about this feature is that you can target it to specific groups of…
We had an interesting question from one of our users who wanted to show the “Widgets” menu for a custom role that they created. They were referring to the “Widgets” menu available in Appearance > Widgets. They created a custom role using the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. They did this by copying the default Subscriber role….
Here at PublishPress, I write about WordPress for publishers. One of the key players in the WordPress publishing ecosystem is Newspack. They have a hosted service, but it’s also possible to download and use Newspack independently. In this guide, I’ll introduce Newspack and show how you can use it for self-hosted projects.