Many WordPress themes rely on Featured Images, but they can be a mystery to many users. What exactly is a Featured Image in WordPress? A Featured Image represents the mood, or theme of your Post. If you’re writing a post about Lego, the featured image should probably be an image of Lego bricks.
One of our most popular recent posts on this blog explained how to rearrange metaboxes in the Gutenberg editor. This post is useful because the system for moving metaboxes has some confusing points. Yes, you can move some metaboxes up and down, but the default boxes can not be moved. The image below highlights the…
Normally, on a WordPress site, users can edit unpublished and published content in the same way. However, as a publisher, you know that there’s a big difference between editing unpublished and published content! It’s often important to approve changes to anything that is live on your website.
PublishPress customers have had some challenging questions for us. In this tutorial, I’m going to explain the answer to a challenging WooCommerce question that came in recently. One PublishPress customer has a large segment of their customer base wishing to call up and place an order over the phone. To make this happen, they need…
We had an interesting request from a PublishPress user this week. They wanted to allow a WordPress user to view WooCommerce orders, but they did not want this user to be able to edit the orders. Normally there are two roles in WooCommerce called “Shop Manager” and “Customer“. In order to solve this request, we…
Indiegraf is a 3-year old company that is having a positive impact for many WordPress publishers. They’re a WordPress hosting platform for publishers, in a similar space to Newspack, PaywallProject, Lede, and others.
Here at PublishPress, our focus is on creating publishing workflows in WordPress. This includes allowing you to create custom statuses in WordPress. However, before moving on to more advanced workflows, people often need some clarity on the basic workflow features in WordPress. For example, what exactly is the difference between “Pending Review” and “Draft”?
If you go to the “Users” screen in WordPress, you will be able to assign users to normal roles, such as Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor, and Administrator. However, there is another option called “No role for this site”. You can think of this option as a type of blocking option. Any users who are moved…
Are you frustrated by inconsistent content on your WordPress site? Do you find that some posts are missing the featured image? Perhaps you keep discovering posts with broken links? Or do you regularly see posts that lack any Tags or Categories? PublishPress Checklists is the solution. This plugin can ensure that your content is consistently…
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. With the PublishPress plugins, you can completely prevent some users from adding new blocks to your WordPress content. In this guide, I’ll share two ways…