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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…
MediaNews Group is a major publishing group across the United States. They own over 100 newspapers and 200 other publications. Their newspapers reach from California (Orange Country Register and Marin Independent Journal) to Florida (Orlando Sentinel and Sun Sentinel). They’re also all across the Midwest (Twin Cities Pioneer Press and Morning Sun) and the North…
The moderate_comments capability is one of the more confusing permissions in WordPress. It controls who can manage and post comments on your site. I know many of you want to control who can manage or post comments on your site, so in this guide I’ll explain how this capability works. You may also find it…
By default, WordPress provides pages that display the posts written by each author. These author pages will normally be located at a URL like this /author/username/. For example, you can find all my PublishPress posts by clicking on this link. That URL is a good example of how these pages work. However, these author pages…
Last year, we covered Block Club Chicago, which is a WordPress-based news start-up. They’ve now reached their 5th birthday and have one of the most inspiring stories in new U.S. journalism. I dug into the Block Club Chicago story this week and realized I had missed a related development. Block Club’s success is backed by…
PublishPress Series is the plugin that allows you to organize posts into issues or series. With the release of PublishPress Series version 2.11.4 we’ve made two significant improvements to how the plugin works. In this guide, I’ll introduce those two changes.
One of the things I love about WordPress is that the project has a clearly-stated philosophy. One of the principles is to design for 80% of users and leave plugins to fill in the more advanced features. This is happening with the Gutenberg block editor. Many developers are adding extra features on top of the…
We recently covered Block Club Chicago which was is built in partnership with the “Lede” platform from Alley Interactive. We’ve previously covered another Lede site called “Defector”. Lede is one of several new WordPress publishing platforms including Newspack, PaywallProject, and IndieGraf.