This week we talked with a PublishPress customer who wanted to build an approval process for his website. His goal is to allow administrators to assign empty posts to authors, who can then add the content and pass them back to the administrator for approval. Here are the four steps in that workflow: In this…
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…
Should you use the AuthO WordPress service? First, let’s make sure we clear up some naming, because Auth0 is a service with a confusing name. OAuth (short for “Open Authorization”) is an open standard for user management. Anyone can use the OAuth protocols and frameworks. Auth0 has a similar name and also specializes in user…
Managing users across multiple WordPress sites can be a challenging task for administrators. In this article we’ll discuss some of the most common problems managing users across multiple sites, and propose some solutions.
Back in 2017, our team was just starting to focus on WordPress development. The first plugin we launched was simply called “PublishPress”. We never expected to end up with at least eight other plugins. Over the last five years, we’ve added more plugins all with variations on the “PublishPress” name. So it is definitely time…
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress customer this week. They wanted to hide the “Edit” link on published WordPress posts. This customer wanted to make sure his users clicked the “New Revision” link instead of editing the post directly. This “New Revisions” link is coming from the PublishPress Revisions plugin, which gives you…
As started to get more and more requests for translations of PublishPress plugins. As a team, we speak English, Spanish, Bulgarian, Croatian, Russian and Brazilian Portuguese. That’s a pretty good list, but it only goes so far. What about French, German and the other popular languages that our users want? No matter how big we…
We’re really happy to say that the PublishPress Authors plugin is now at version 4.0. Previously, the main selling point of PublishPress Authors was that you could add multiple authors to one post. That’s not possible with the WordPress core. But thanks to user feedback, we’ve been able to expand the plugin. With version 4.0,…
The Beaver Builder plugin is an excellent good page-builder for WordPress sites. This week, one PublishPress customer asked us if it was possible to allow some WordPress users to edit a single page with Beaver Builder. Our first thought was “yes, this is easy”. We’ve done it before many times using this approach, this approach…
In this guide, we’ll talk you through different options for managing users across more than one WordPress site. There are a wide variety of options for different circumstances. For example, if all your users are already inside Google Workspace, or an Active Directory instance, we have some specific recommendations for you.