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.
WordPress has seen off another competitor. The Chorus CMS is being shut down. Vox Media had developed Chorus for its own websites. Vox owns a ton of news and culture properties including Vox, New York Magazine, The Verge, The Cut, Eater, and Vulture. As Chorus grew, Vox also tried to attract external publishers onto the…
Tags and Categories are a great way to organize WordPress content. With one click, you can create a Tag or Category that can connect all the stories on your site. If you have a large number of authors, or have just been writing for a while, you may have noticed that some of the terms…
A few weeks ago, I wrote that something new is growing in US journalism. It’s still fragile, and hard to define, but I stand by this quote: I think we’ll look back on 2020 to 2022 as the start of a new journalism movement in the USA. This week provided more evidence. A nonprofit trust…
I share a lot of details about start-ups here at PublishPress, but here’s a very different angle on WordPress publishing. The Center for Cooperative Media does a lot of work to support publishers and they have just published an interview with Andrew Ramsammy about “Word in Black”. Word in Black is a collaborative effort between…
One of the reasons I started PublishPress is I believe there’s an emerging ecosystem of exciting publishing start-ups. Many of these publishers started around 2020, are non-profit or owned by the journalists, and almost all use WordPress. A new ecosystem must have supporting organizations, and for these emerging publishers, few are more supportive than INN…
Over the last several years, the WordPress community has focused on the “Gutenberg” project. The aim is to modernize how WordPress works. Phase 1 introduced a new block editor for writing posts. Phase 2 allowed you to use those blocks for building a website. And Phase 3 is about to begin! I think Phase 3…
“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 ->…