These posts feature news and tutorials for the PublishPress Authors plugin which allows you to add multiple authors and guest authors to WordPress posts.
Have you ever seen the words “Reviewed by” next to a blog post? It’s becoming increasingly common for publishers to do this and give credit to more than one person. In this image below you can see the main author is shown next to “Written by”. There’s also another user who is shown next to…
In the latest version of the PublishPress Authors plugin, we’ve added a few that improves compatibility with other themes and plugins. Previously, PublishPress Authors allowed you to add “Guest Authors” that did not have a user account. This option was lightweight but did cause compatibility issues.
We always listen carefully to your feedback. Sometimes that feedback is so overwhelming that we have to build a feature. This happened with PublishPress Authors. The PublishPress Authors plugin allows you to create, manage and display authors for all your WordPress content. Your feedback was that you wanted to have different types of authors. Imagine…
Welcome to the fifth annual review from PublishPress. You can read our previous reviews for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. We write these annual reviews for you, our customers. Thank you for all your investment in our work. I hope the reviews help you get a better understanding of our vision for these plugins. We…
Creating content can be a complex process if a lot of users are involved. And when it comes to giving attribution, sometimes it’s not enough to group everyone together as an “Author”. Wouldn’t it be better to give accurate attribution to all the people who help create your content? Imagine having a WordPress post where…
This week, one PublishPress user asked us about an interesting WordPress problem. They could not see the “Author” dropdown option when they were writing posts. This screenshot below shows how the Author dropdown normally appears:
One of our PublishPress Authors users wanted to show their Author Fields in a vertical layout, but they were having difficulty in achieving that kind of layout. In this article, we will show you how to display the Author Fields in a stacked / vertical layout. This image below shows the layout we are aiming…
Here at PublishPress, I write about WordPress for publishers. One of the key players in the WordPress publishing ecosystem is Newspack. They have a hosted service, but it’s also possible to download and use Newspack independently. In this guide, I’ll introduce Newspack and show how you can use it for self-hosted projects.
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…
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…