One of the things we talk about often at PublishPress is transparency. Good journalism requires building a kinship between yourself and your audience. In most situations, if you want people to trust your publication, you need to include information about your authors. PublishPress Authors is a WordPress plugin that makes it simple to show details…
One PublishPress customer asked how us to allow users in WordPress role to only edit specific post types. For example, you create a custom role called “Movie Director” and post type called “Movie”. The goal is to allow this role to only access this post type.
Chris Hardie is a software engineer with a deep interest in journalism. Chris worked for Automattic for five years and recently completed a master’s degree in journalism. Last week, Chris combined these two passions by acquiring Western Wayne News in Wayne County, Indiana. The paper has a WordPress site and a weekly printed edition. It…
PublishPress Blocks is one of the most popular plugins we offer, with over 30,000 active users. PublishPress Blocks has tools to help improve the Gutenberg editor. You’ll find extra blocks, options to control who can use each block, and the ability to easily add CSS to each block. We’ve just released version 3.0 of PublishPress…
Spambots and other automated scripts constantly probe the internet looking for weaknesses in WordPress websites. hCaptcha for WordPress is designed to identify these bots and prevent them from accessing your site. In this post you’ll learn all about hCaptcha for WordPress and see how it fits into the overall strategy for securing the login area…
One of our favorite things to do is add new features to our Free plugins. It’s a pleasure to release improvements for anyone to use. The latest version of PublishPress Series has several new features that were previously only in the Pro version of the plugin. PublishPress Series is a publishing plugin that allows you…
I’m delighted to say that the MetaSlider plugin is now part of PublishPress. The PublishPress team’s mission is to help WordPress publishers succeed. We believe that maintaining and improving the MetaSlider plugin will enable us to help more publishers. MetaSlider is one of the most popular slideshow plugins for WordPress, with over 700,000 installs and…
Universities love to use WordPress. The platform is an affordable and powerful way to build all the types of websites that are needed on a campus. Yes, WordPress can build a complete homepage website for your university, with customizable features and powerful tools.
Vince Dice is the editor of Gig Harbor Now, a nonprofit news organization in Gig Harbor, near Seattle. His publication is celebrating its first birthday this week and he has interesting story to tell, that sums up many trends with local news in 2022. For many years, Vince was connected to a newspaper called “Gig…
One central idea here at PublishPress is that this is an exciting new time for journalism. There is a large group of new publishers that are mostly non-profit, mission-driven, and powered by WordPress. This week provided excellent evidence to back up this idea. The Institute for Nonprofit News released their nominations for the “Nonprofit News…