These posts feature news and tutorials for the Gutenberg block editor in WordPress.
PublishPress Capabilities is the plugin that gives you control over all the permissions on your WordPress site. In the last few days, there have been two big milestones for the plugin: Capabilities now has over 100,000 active installs of the Free version, according to WordPress.org. We released Capabilities 2.0 with lots of new features for Free…
WordPress has a useful block called “Gallery” which allows you show to multiple images together. With the PublishPress Blocks plugin, you can improve the gallery block and show WordPress images inside a lightbox modal. This feature is not available in the normal WordPress image block.
We seen a few PublishPress users report problems with embeds in Gutenberg. If they restrict permissions for users, they sometimes find that those users can not add embeds from YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and other sites.
iFrames are a feature of the web that can be very useful and also very frustrating. WordPress is a good example of this. On one hand, WordPress uses iFrames as a key part of the Customizer. On the other hand, WordPress often blocks iFrames as a security threat. In this guide, I’ll show you how…
An accordion layout allows you to pĺace large quantities of text on a reduced space. Your site’s visitors can get overwhelmed when presented with too much text to read at once. If you use an accordion layout, your visitors can scan and look for the information they need. An accordion is perfect for Frequently Asked…
A CTA Button (call-to-action) is essential for the health of your business. A call-to-action is intended to drive the user to a specific action, to complete a conversion. This conversion can be many things, such as signing up to a newsletter, buying an product or redirecting the user to the paid area of the site. …
Phew! 2020 is over. That was intense. 2020 was a difficult personal year for many of our team, with family members passing away, losing jobs, and enduring hard times. Fortunately, the PublishPress business was a bright spot this year. Our team (Anderson, Kevin, Valentin, and myself) rallied together. And our customers were great – I…
In the middle of 2020, we acquired a plugin called “Advanced Gutenberg”. It is a plugin that adds over 20 extra blocks to the Gutenberg interface, along with custom layouts, CSS styles, and permissions for blocks. This week, we renamed the plugin to “PublishPress Blocks”. There’s a couple of reasons for this change:
Meredith Corporation is a huge media group that owns magazines, television stations, websites, and radio stations. You have almost certainly heard of many of their brands including People, Entertainment Weekly, Travel and Leisure, and Martha Stewart Living. They recently finished migrating millions of articles and images into a company-wide CMS based in WordPress. The company…
When Gutenberg launched in 2018, it inspired a lot of discussion around the future of pagebuilder plugins. At that time, many WordPress users were installing pagebuilders because they wanted to use blocks and a drag-and-drop approach to site-building. Gutenberg was clearly a response to user demand. So, more than two years after Gutenberg arrived, how…