These posts feature news and tutorials for the Gutenberg block editor in WordPress.
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…
PublishPress Capabilities is now at version 2.4.2, and this latest release brings several useful new features. Our goal with PublishPress Capabilities is to provide a complete user management tool for WordPress. In this release, we’re moving towards that goal with several new features, including these: More control over Gutenberg and Classic Editor. The ability to…
PublishPress Series is a plugin that we acquired last year. The Series plugin allows you to collect WordPress content together into a series. This is ideal for magazines, newspapers, short-story writers, teachers, comic artists, or anyone who writes multiple posts on the same topic. Over the last few months, we’ve been working to modernize the…
Seth Rubenstein is the lead developer at the Pew Research Center and he posted a very interesting Twitter thread on their use of WordPress and Gutenberg:
PublishPress Blocks is one of the most popular plugins for Gutenberg blocks with over 30,000 users. In the latest release of PublishPress Blocks Pro, you’ll find some really cool new design options, including these: Google Fonts: You can choose from over 1,000 fonts to use in your blocks. Content Display block: This block is the…
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been working on a large number of improvements to PublishPress Blocks Pro. In the latest version, you’ll see dozens of new design, layout, and alignment options, plus lots of other improvements. Almost all of the ideas for improvements have come from PublishPress users. Here’s a rundown of the new…
PublishPress Blocks is the plugin you need to publish advanced and professional content in the new WordPress block editor. PublishPress Blocks has several key features in one plugin, including latest content blocks, layout options, sliders, maps, icons, and image galleries, plus custom CSS styles.
Both the Gutenberg Editor and Elementor are excellent ways to build a WordPress website. We recently checked the numbers and found that these are the two fastest growing options for WordPress sites. However, in most situations, you need to choose either Gutenberg or Elementor. The two systems are not very compatible with each other. So…
Nested blocks are a really useful feature in the Gutenberg editor. If you haven’t used them yet, you almost certainly will when the new “Full-Site Editing” changes arrive in WordPress 5.8. At that point, you will be able to build complete webpages in Gutenberg and I guarantee you’ll be using nested blocks. Nested blocks makes…
Back in June, we released “Editor Features” in the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. This allowed you to hide almost any feature on the post editing screen. Why do I say “almost”? Because the first release of Editor Features could not hide metaboxes. I’m happy to say that you can now use PublishPress Capabilities to hide metaboxes….