Make Your WordPress Admin Areas Colorful and Unique
If you work with multiple WordPress sites, I’m 100% sure that you get confused sometimes. Every site has the same black and white admin area. Every site looks identical!
PublishPress Blog
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Choose Default and Locked Post Statuses in WordPress
The PublishPress Statuses plugin now allows you to choose default visibility statuses for new posts. You can also lock those statuses so new posts are forced to have these statuses. The default visibility statuses in WordPress are “Published” and “Private”, but it’s possible to add more using the PublishPress Statuses plugin. This feature is really…
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Introducing PublishPress Hub
Thank you so much for using the PublishPress plugins. We believe that WordPress is the best publishing platform. Our goal is to help make it even better for you. As we start 2026, I’m going to share details of what we’re releasing this year. We plan to add several new plugins to PublishPress this year….
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How to Schedule a Term Change in WordPress
We had a question from a PublishPress user this week. They wanted to publish a post and then automatically change the taxonomy term in the future. They wanted to wait three months and then add a Category called “Archives” to the post. This is possible with the PublishPress Future plugin. You can schedule a Tag,…
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What’s Going to Happen With WordPress in 2026?
In this episode of the PublishPress podcast we welcome Birgit Pauli-Haack, a developer advocate for Automattic. She also publishes the Gutenberg Times which is the best place to keep up with everything that’s happening with the block editor. We discuss the recent release of WordPress 6.9, its new features, and the future of WordPress development…
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How to Optimize Your Websites for AI Search
Alex Denning has been in the WordPress and SEO communities for years. But for the last few years, he’s been seeing those topics through on AI lens. Alex now runs the Ellipsis agency and helps his clients to get recommended by AI chats. Alex’s life was changed when GPT-3 launched, because it radically changed the…
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The Teaser Feature is Now Available to All PublishPress Permissions Users
Do you need to prevent visitors from accessing some of your site’s content? With the “Teaser” feature, you can customize what happens when visitors try to view your restricted content. This is really helpful for membership websites, or anyone who wants visitors to register to access content. The screenshot below shows how this feature works….
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How to Add a Reading Time to WordPress Posts
Reading time is a key feature on many news websites. You’ll often see this data displayed on website homepages, and on individual stories. This feature tells visitors how long it will take to finish reading each article. WordPress may soon offer a “Time to Read” block so you can add this feature to your sites….
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The Story Behind Checkout Summit: the New WooCommerce Conference
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Rodolfo Melogli shares his journey from the early days of WooCommerce to the creation of his new Checkout Summit conference. This new WooCommerce conference will be in Sicily in April 2026. If you work with WooCommerce, you should be there. This is a conference we’ve been missing in…
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An Introduction to bbPress Roles and Capabilities
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…