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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…
Brian Morrissey is a veteran of the media industry after long stints at DigiDay, Adweek, and Silicon Alley. He is full of interesting opinions about where the industry is going. Brian thinks that smaller is better for publishers. He believes that relationships are often far more valuable than a large number of newsletter and social…
I’m delighted to announce the launch of our 10th Pro plugin. Have you ever wanted to label a WordPress post something other than “Draft” or “Pending Review”? The PublishPress Statuses plugin can help. PublishPress Statuses allows you to create additional statuses for your posts. For example, you can add statuses to use before you publish…
Rae Morey launched “The Repository” in 2019. It’s a weekly newsletter that often breaks real news about what’s happening in the WordPress ecosystem. In this episode of the PublishPress podcast, we talked with Rae about the path she took through tech and journalism. She told us about some the challenges she’s overcome to survive and…
In this episode of the PublishPress podcast, we talk with Chris Hardie, who is a software engineer with a deep interest in journalism. Chris worked for Automattic for five years and recently completed a master’s degree in journalism. In 2022, Chris combined these two passions by acquiring Western Wayne News in Wayne County, Indiana. The…
Andy Dehnart has run the Reality Blurred website for 25 years now. He writes about reality TV and now also about true crime TV shows. In this episode of the PublishPress podcast, Andy talks about his career as an independent reviewer, and how small publishers can still thrive in 2025. This episode features Andy, plus…
The PublishPress Future plugin allows you to schedule changes to posts, pages and other content types. With this plugin you can create automatic actions to unpublish, delete, trash, move a post to a new status and more. We’re also working on exciting new option called “Action Workflows” where you can update your content using custom…
Josh Koenig is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Pantheon. When scheduling this interview, I thought Josh was launching a tool called “Content Publisher” to connect Google Docs to WordPress. Given Josh’s previous achievements, I should have known better. Josh’s goals with this product are far bigger and more interesting. Content Publisher is the…
Welcome to episode #1 of the PublishPress podcast. In these podcast, we’re talk with people involved in WordPress publishing. You’ll hear interview with publishers who happen to be using WordPress, and also people in the WordPress space. In this first episode, we chat with Seth Rubenstein, Lead Engineer at the Pew Research Center. He’s been…
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….