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A key requirement for publishers is an editorial calendar so that your team can schedule content releases. For WordPress users, the best editorial calendar is probably the PublishPress Calendar plugin. In this guide, I’ll introduce you to the PublishPress Calendar and how it can work for your content team.
I was talking with a friend this morning about WordPress sites and Adobe inDesign, so I thought it would be a good day to share “Eight Day Week“. It’s a very cool plugin for publishers who print. When an issue of your magazine or newspaper is ready to go, you can move it from WordPress…
PublishPress Series is a plugin that we acquired last year. The Series plugin allows you to collect WordPress content together into a series. This is ideal for magazines, newspapers, short-story writers, teachers, comic artists, or anyone who writes multiple posts on the same topic. Over the last few months, we’ve been working to modernize the…
We’re starting a major set of improvements to the PublishPress Authors plugin. The goal of these upgrades is to add some key new features: More customizable author pages. The ability to display all of your authors on one screen. Better support for the WordPress REST API. More design and layout options for profiles. Categories for…
The PublishPress Pro plugin allows you to send notifications about content changes via Slack. Recently, Slack has made some changes to how integrations worked. So we have had to update the Slack integration in PublishPress Pro. If you are using PublishPress Pro, you don’t have to update immediately. However, at some point, the old system…
Seth Rubenstein is the lead developer at the Pew Research Center and he posted a very interesting Twitter thread on their use of WordPress and Gutenberg:
It’s worth checking out Human Made’s review of their TechCrunch redesign. The new site is headless and required them to build a whole lot of new tools. The review has Github links to all the tools used during the build process. Click here to see Human Made’s white-paper.
WPSiteSync is an interesting WordPress plugin that is now 100% free. The plugin allows you to sync WordPress content across multiple sites. Our team at PublishPress had considered building something like this for publishers, but it did seem like a difficult technical challenge.
If you’re a publisher who adds a lot of content on your WordPress site, it’s easy to end up with an uncategorized. Your writers can easily forget to add relevant Tags, Categories, and the other taxonomy terms you need The TaxoPress plugin is a WordPress plugin that we recommend because it can analyze your content…
PublishPress Blocks is one of the most popular plugins for Gutenberg blocks with over 30,000 users. In the latest release of PublishPress Blocks Pro, you’ll find some really cool new design options, including these: Google Fonts: You can choose from over 1,000 fonts to use in your blocks. Content Display block: This block is the…