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Many recent local journalism stories can be hard to follow. There are often a lot of organizations involved with confusing names and purposes. That is true in this story about “Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk” also known as “AGWaterDesk”. Ag & Water Desk (as we’ll call them for short) has just received $2.5…
In a previous tutorial, we showed how to hide the “Edit with Elementor” button for specific users. However, one customer pointed out that the tutorial only works for users in the backend of WordPress. They also wanted to hide “Edit with Elementor” link on the WordPress frontend. This is possible with the Frontend Features option…
This week, we launched a new feature that will be useful for almost everyone who builds WordPress sites. PublishPress Capabilities 2.9 introduces a new “Frontend Features” screen. Frontend Features allows you to hide any CSS element or add new CSS. What’s unique about this feature is that you can target it to specific groups of…
We had an interesting question from one of our users who wanted to show the “Widgets” menu for a custom role that they created. They were referring to the “Widgets” menu available in Appearance > Widgets. They created a custom role using the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. They did this by copying the default Subscriber role….
Here at PublishPress, I write about WordPress for publishers. One of the key players in the WordPress publishing ecosystem is Newspack. They have a hosted service, but it’s also possible to download and use Newspack independently. In this guide, I’ll introduce Newspack and show how you can use it for self-hosted projects.
Tags and Categories are a great way to organize WordPress content. With one click, you can create a Tag or Category that can connect all the stories on your site. If you have a large number of authors, or have just been writing for a while, you may have noticed that some of the terms…
I share a lot of details about start-ups here at PublishPress, but here’s a very different angle on WordPress publishing. The Center for Cooperative Media does a lot of work to support publishers and they have just published an interview with Andrew Ramsammy about “Word in Black”. Word in Black is a collaborative effort between…
Over the last several years, the WordPress community has focused on the “Gutenberg” project. The aim is to modernize how WordPress works. Phase 1 introduced a new block editor for writing posts. Phase 2 allowed you to use those blocks for building a website. And Phase 3 is about to begin! I think Phase 3…
“Additional CSS” is a feature from WordPress core that was first introduced on WordPress 4.7. This feature was initially created to make it easier for users to customize their site’s CSS without the need for additional plugins or directly editing their theme. You can normally find this feature by navigating to Appearance -> Customize ->…
PublishPress Revisions has a new feature called “Revision Archive”. This is one place to find all the revisions for content on your site. Normally it’s really difficult to view revisions in WordPress. The only way to access them is via a small link inside each individual post. “Revision Archive” solves this problem by displaying all…