Tags and Categories are the two ways you can categorize your WordPress content. There’s often a debate about the right way to use Tags and Categories in order to optimize your sites for search engines. Let’s take a look at advice on how to use Tags and Categories …
We had a really interesting question from a PublishPress user: We have many clients who we write posts for. We write the posts 6 months in advance, and get them approved by the clients. Is this possible with the PublishPress plugins? The answer is “Yes”, you can do this. In this tutorial, I’ll show you…
WordPress developers use the “custom post type” feature for many different features, including some that are a million miles away from traditional “posts”. For example, in WooCommerce, post types are used for Orders, Coupons, Products, and more.
We all know that local newspapers are in trouble. At least 25% of US papers have closed in the last 15 years. But there are also positive signs: if you look carefully, we’re seeing many fresh, independent media projects. These new projects are innovative, diverse, making money and overwhelmingly using WordPress. That last point really…
Phew! 2020 is over. That was intense. 2020 was a difficult personal year for many of our team, with family members passing away, losing jobs, and enduring hard times. Fortunately, the PublishPress business was a bright spot this year. Our team (Anderson, Kevin, Valentin, and myself) rallied together. And our customers were great – I…
We develop a plugin called PublishPress Revisions that allows you to submit, approve and schedule changes to your WordPress content. Revisions are a wonderful feature in WordPress and have saved me many hours of headaches. WordPress automatically saves a revision for your content every 60 seconds using the autosave feature. So whenever I make a…
In the middle of 2020, we acquired a plugin called “Advanced Gutenberg”. It is a plugin that adds over 20 extra blocks to the Gutenberg interface, along with custom layouts, CSS styles, and permissions for blocks. This week, we renamed the plugin to “PublishPress Blocks”. There’s a couple of reasons for this change:
We often hear about old newspaper companies that are struggling. But there’s a good chance that 2020 was a turning point for successful new journalists. If you look carefully, we’re seeing many fresh, independent media projects. The business model for these new projects is different. They are ditching corporate ownership in favor of a model…
PublishPress Authors is the best plugin for adding many authors to one WordPress post. With this plugin, you can create detailed author profiles that linked to WordPress users, or you can add guest authors. Version 3.9 is now available for both the Free and Pro versions of PublishPress Authors. The main new feature in these releases is integration with the “Bulk Edit”…
This week, a PublishPress user asked us if it is possible to customize the permissions for a single WordPress user. The answer is “yes”, and in this guide I’ll show you two ways to do that.