The Glossary plugin allows you to create a glossary on your WordPress site. This can be very useful feature for your visitors, particularly if you work in an industry with lots of jargon or unusual words. The Glossary plugin allows you to automatically create links from words to the corresponding term page in the glossary….
The new Gutenberg editor in WordPress makes it really easy to share Amazon links. Since the release of WordPress 5.2 in May 2019, you can find an “Amazon Kindle” block. When you’re writing a post in WordPress, click the “Add block” button and you can search for “Amazon Kindle”:
Inserting a YouTube or Vimeo video in your WordPress site is easier with Gutenberg than it was with the old Classic Editor. Videos are always useful in a web site. They provide trust in your content, and with the right design approach, they also are an essential part of the user interface and user experience…
One of the big promises for the Gutenberg editor is that it will be easier forr you to create layouts. That is very true with the Columns Manager block in Advanced Gutenberg. With the Columns Manager, you can choose from many different column layouts to present your content. After choosing a predefined layout you can…
Matt Mullenweg introduced the Gutenberg project at WordCamp US in late 2016. If you want a big picture overview of why Gutenberg was built, I recommend Matt’s post, “We Called it Gutenberg for a Reason“. We are nearly 4 years into the project now, and are not yet half-way through. The Gutenberg project is split…
Update: this plugin is now called “PublishPress Blocks“. In February this year, I received an email from the team at JoomUnited. We’ve crossed paths several times over the last decade or more. This time, they had an offer: “Would you be interested in taking over the Advanced Gutenberg plugin?” Advanced Gutenberg is a plugin that…
If you write really long articles in WordPress, it can very helpful to have a table of contents at the top of the post. This table of contents is as a quick summary so readers can scan the content and perhaps jump down to a topic they’re really interested in. In this post, I’ll show…
One PublishPress user asked if it was possible to stop users from publishing changes to existing WordPress posts and pages. Yes, it’s possible with a plugin called PublishPress Revisions. I’m going to give you an overview of how to set this up on your site.
PublishPress Checklists is the plugin if you want to control the quality of your WordPress content. You can define tasks that authors must complete before content is published. These tasks are things like writing a minimum number of words, or adding a featured image.
Earlier this week, I was optimizing a post with the new Gutenberg editor in WordPress, trying to improve the search engine optimization. I added alt text to the image blocks. To my surprise, the alt text automatically appeared as a caption under the images: