These posts feature news and tutorials for the Gutenberg block editor in WordPress.
Last year, we covered Block Club Chicago, which is a WordPress-based news start-up. They’ve now reached their 5th birthday and have one of the most inspiring stories in new U.S. journalism. I dug into the Block Club Chicago story this week and realized I had missed a related development. Block Club’s success is backed by…
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…
We recently covered Block Club Chicago which was is built in partnership with the “Lede” platform from Alley Interactive. We’ve previously covered another Lede site called “Defector”. Lede is one of several new WordPress publishing platforms including Newspack, PaywallProject, and IndieGraf.
The “upload_files” capability is one of the most important in WordPress. If users don’t have the “upload_files” capability, they completely lose access to the Media Library. They can’t upload files or even browse media on your site. If users do not have the “upload_files” capability, this image below shows what they will see when they use…
The Gutenberg editor provokes a lot of debate in the WordPress world. Some people love Gutenberg – we’re in that camp and built the PublishPress Blocks plugin. Some people really don’t like Gutenberg and prefer to stick with the editor they’ve used for years. However, most WordPress users have more mixed feelings and prefer to…
In this tutorial, I’m going to introduce you to the unfiltered_html permission. This permission is a security feature in WordPress that prevents users from using tags such as iframe and embed, plus also more advanced code such as Javascript. This unfiltered_html permission could be very dangerous in the wrong hands, so please don’t give this…
Using the PublishPress Blocks plugin, you can control how and when blocks appear on your site. The “Block Controls” feature gives you a wide range of options, including these: In version 3.1.2 of PublishPress Blocks, these controls are improved and expanded. Here’s what’s new in this release.
PublishPress Blocks 3.1 is available now and allows you to control which users can see a specific Gutenberg block. The PublishPress Blocks plugin has a new “User Role Controls feature”. This makes it possible to add the following restrictions to any Gutenberg block: Show a block to logged in users only. Show a block to…
PublishPress Blocks is one of the most popular plugins we offer, with over 30,000 active users. PublishPress Blocks has tools to help improve the Gutenberg editor. You’ll find extra blocks, options to control who can use each block, and the ability to easily add CSS to each block. We’ve just released version 3.0 of PublishPress…
The PublishPress Blocks plugin is growing in a new direction. The latest release of PublishPress Blocks (version 2.14) introduces a feature called “Block Controls”. This will give you the ability to control who sees your blocks and when they display. This first “Block Controls” setting allows you to schedule blocks to publish and unpublish. Every…