What Could the WordPress Community Do for Publishers?
Thursday, September 7 was a very interesting day for WordPress publishing. We saw a significant investment in the space, with the promise of more to come.
PublishPress Blog
The PublishPress team write about WordPress and publishing. We have news, tutorials, reviews and guides to help you succeed as a publisher.
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Improved Composer Support for PublishPress Plugins
Today we are pleased to announce much improved Composer support for PublishPress plugins. Composer is a tool that developers can use to manage plugins or entire WordPress sites. Previously, it was possible to install the free version of our plugins with Composer. But it was more difficult to install the Pro versions of the plugins….
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WordPress Dominates As Rival Publishing Platforms Struggle
In July, WordPress saw off a strong potential competitor when the Chorus CMS shut down. In August, another competitor continues to quickly fade away. The Washington Post laid off more staff from its Arc XP platform: Last year, the Post declined offers to sell Arc XP, the company’s in house publishing tool and software business,…
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How to Show PublishPress Author Fields in a Vertical Layout
One of our PublishPress Authors users wanted to show their Author Fields in a vertical layout, but they were having difficulty in achieving that kind of layout. In this article, we will show you how to display the Author Fields in a stacked / vertical layout. This image below shows the layout we are aiming…
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How to Use the Footnotes Block in WordPress
Just over six years ago today, someone posted an idea in the Gutenberg repository on Github. The idea was just five words: “Implement a block for footnotes“. WordPress 6.3 arrived this week with a Footnotes block that is ready for you to use! This is going to be a very useful addition for many WordPress…
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How to Connect Multiple Different Words to a WordPress Term
Tags, Categories, and other taxonomies are the best way to organize WordPress content. With one click, you can create a Tag or Category that can be used across all the posts on your site. If you have a large number of Tags and Categories, you may have noticed that some of the terms are duplicated….
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Ag & Water Desk is a WordPress-Powered Publisher with a Great Mission, and Explainer Video
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…
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How to Hide “Edit with Elementor” from the WordPress Admin Toolbar
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…
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Frontend Features is Available in PublishPress Capabilities
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…
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How to Show the “Widgets” Menu for WordPress User Roles
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….