The Gutenberg block editor makes it easy to add and edit content in WordPress. However, sometimes you want to do just the opposite! Sometimes your content should not be updated. It is now possible to lock blocks so that they can not be edited. This feature was introduced in WordPress 6.0.
By default, WordPress provides pages that display the posts written by each author. These author pages will normally be located at a URL like this /author/username/. For example, you can find all my PublishPress posts by clicking on this link. That URL is a good example of how these pages work. However, these author pages…
PublishPress Series is the plugin that allows you to organize posts into issues or series. With the release of PublishPress Series version 2.11.4 we’ve made two significant improvements to how the plugin works. In this guide, I’ll introduce those two changes.
One of the things I love about WordPress is that the project has a clearly-stated philosophy. One of the principles is to design for 80% of users and leave plugins to fill in the more advanced features. This is happening with the Gutenberg block editor. Many developers are adding extra features on top of the…
The PublishPress Future plugin allows you to make automatic changes to posts. pages and other content types. On a date you choose, PublishPress Future can delete your post, change the status, or update the post categories, or make other changes. We’ve just released version 3.0 of Future. This version of the plugin is a major…
We have a PublishPress customer who also uses the Gravity Forms plugin. They asked us if it was possible to create a user who can do nothing in WordPress, except for edit form entries in Gravity Forms. Yes, this is possible, and this tutorial will show you how.
The Theme Editor in WordPress allows you make direct changes to your site’s theme files. This is not always a good idea because changes made via the Theme Editor can easily take your site offline. There is no “undo” or “rollback” button if you make a mistake. In fact, you will see this message when…
A few PublishPress users have written to us and asked if it’s possible to control who can access Elementor templates. By default, only users in the “Administrator” role have the ability to create and edit new templates. In this guide, I’ll show you how to allow other users to manage templates. For more control over…
“Block Access” is one of the most popular features in the PublishPress Blocks plugin. This feature allows you to control which blocks are available to different user roles. For example, if you want to prevent some user roles from adding “Table” blocks, you can block them from doing that with this feature. In version 2.10…
Here at PublishPress, we’re able to support almost any other WordPress plugin. However, there is one popular plugin called bbPress that doesn’t always work smoothly with our code, or other user management plugins. bbPress has over 300,000 users and is the commonly used discussion board in WordPress. I’m going to give you a guide on…