PublishPress Blocks is one of our most popular plugins. Honestly, that’s a little surprising to me. One reason that’s surprising is because the plugin has a smaller potential audience than most. It’s only for people who use the WordPress block editor. The plugin isn’t helpful if you’re using Elementor, Beaver Builder, or another page-builder.
The PublishPress Future plugin allows you to schedule changes to posts, pages and other content types. The great thing about these changes is that they can happen automatically, when you’re busy doing something else. But it can be important to get notifications when these changes happen. You can now get notifications for all those changes…
Matt Hoy is the Chief Revenue Officer of Revcontent which provides native advertising for publishers. In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Matt talks about how publishers can drive revenue despite the challenges posed by changes in Google search and the rise of AI. Matt believes the key to success is trust. The advertising landscape…
In this guide, I’m going to show you to hide Gutenberg blocks that you don’t want some WordPress users to access. As more plugin developers support Gutenberg, you may end up with a very long list of blocks. Or you may simply not want to give some users access to some functionality.
We had a question from a PublishPress user asked us about an interesting configuration for their WordPress eCommerce site. This user wanted to create a WooCommerce Product Editor role. Any users in this role will be responsible for editing all the WooCommerce products, but will not have access to other areas of the site.
Ben May runs The Code Company, one of the most successful WordPress agencies in Australia. In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, we discuss Ben’s journey in the Australian publishing industry, the evolution of WordPress, and the importance of community engagement. Ben has tons of experience with scaling WordPress sites, particularly with comment and community…
One of our customers is using WooCommerce and had a question about configuring the Shop Manager role. They wanted to modify this role so that users in the Shop Manager role had limited ability to modify the orders. First, we suggested this tutorial to make that happen: “Allow users to view and not edit WooCommerce…
By default, all the files and images you upload to WordPress are publicly available. This is great news for most sites. The goal of most sites is to create popular content that is viewed by as many readers as possible. But this public access is a problem if you run a membership site and DO…
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, we talk with Andrew Wilder from NerdPress. Andrew’s team specializes in WordPress support and maintenance for independent publishers, particularly in the food and travel blogging niches. Because he works with very high-traffic websites, Andrew and his team do things differently. For example, their plugin updates are always done…
By default, WordPress only allows Administrators to create users. If you want to allow other roles to create users then you need to give them at least the promote_users, list_users, edit_users and create_users permissions. However, if you give them those permissions, they can create and edit users in any role. So you could have Editors…