These posts feature news and tutorials for the PublishPress Capabilities plugin which allows you to control permissions for your WordPress posts, pages, media and custom post types.
The goal of PublishPress is to provide professional publishing tools for WordPress. When larger, professional organizations start to use PublishPress, a lot of their questions revolve around permissions. Permissions questions do not have easy answers in WordPress. The permissions system in WordPress can be confusing. One example of this confusion is the “Edit Posts” permission….
Finally, you can get peace and quiet from all the noisy messages and advertisements in your WordPress admin area. You know the problem. Many WordPress plugins post messages asking you to upgrade, leave a review, enjoy a free gift, sign up for data tracking, and much more. This screenshot is typical of what happens. How…
Welcome to the sixth annual review from PublishPress. You can read our previous reviews for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. We write these annual reviews for you, our customers. Thank you for all your investment in our work. We hope the reviews help you get a better understanding of our vision for these plugins….
PublishPress Capabilities 2.17 is out now. This is our final big release of 2024, and it’s a good one! If you’re using the free version of PublishPress Capabilities, you’ll see a new “Redirects” screen to control where users are sent when they log in and log out. If you’re using the Pro version, you will…
In the latest version of PublishPress Capabilities Pro, you can now rename, redesign and rearrange your WordPress admin menus. Previously, it was possible to control who could access each admin menu. Now you can change the name and icon for each menu link. You can also re-arrange the order of the links. This screenshot below…
By default, WordPress users which access to the “Posts” screen can see all the Posts on the site, regardless of whether they are the author or can edit then. This is not a problem for many sites. After all, most Posts on most sites are publicly available – there’s no need to hide them. However,…
This week, a PublishPress customer wanted to understand the relationship between authors and comments their WordPress posts. The customer wanted to know if authors could see manage comments on their own posts. This tutorial is a guide to understanding the control that users have over comments on posts. You can also click this link if…
A PublishPress user wrote to us with question: I have just installed your PublishPress Capabilities plugin, which is working almost perfectly. The problem that I’m having is that my user can upload images but can not edit the Alternative Text, Title, Description and Caption of the image, which I need the user to be able…
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…
We’re excited to share some cool news about our most popular plugin, PublishPress Capabilities. This helpful tool gives you super-detailed control over who can do what on your WordPress site. PublishPress Capabilities now shows you the capabilities for many free and commercial plugins, from Yoast and Rank Math to Learn Dash and Gravity Forms.