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The common practice of sharing WordPress user accounts makes it easy for agencies to provide site access for both developers and maintainers. But this practice has many downsides. As we’ll discuss below, we don’t recommend sharing WordPress user accounts in any professional setting.
If you run a WordPress agency, customizing the login experience for the sites you build is a great way to promote your agency and build brand recognition. Here are some helpful plugins to customize the WordPress login screen. These plugins will keep your agency top-of-mind with the site owner when they need changes or new…
You don’t have to work alone in producing content: the best writing is done in a team. If you’re using WordPress for a publication with multiple writers, I recommend that you try the PublishPress Authors plugin. With this plugin you can display the names of everyone involved in your posts. By default, WordPress will only…
Several PublishPress customers have asked us if it’s possible to customize the WooCommerce Order screens. You can can see an example of an Order in the screenshot below. Yes, this is possible with the PublishPress Capabilities Pro plugin, and in this guide I’ll show you how it’s done, using the Editor Features option.
WordPress multisite networks don’t always follow the same rules as regular WordPress sites. User roles and capabilities are very different on multisite networks. One significant difference is the behavior of the unfiltered_html capability. This is a security feature in WordPress that prevents users from using tags such as <iframe> and <embed>, plus also more advanced…
One of the most common requests we’ve had from users of the PublishPress Authors plugin is the ability to show all your authors on one page. This is now possible with the authors_list shortcode. The authors_list shortcode comes with a variety of different views. In this guide, I’ll introduce you to the display options and…
miniOrange provides a very wide range of identity management solutions for enterprise companies. The company was founded in 2012 in India and is now headquartered in New York with around 200 employees. One service that MiniOrange provides is Single Sign-On (SSO) integration with WordPress sites. RoleUp is an alternative option if you need Single Sign-On…
The PublishPress Blocks plugin is growing in a new direction. The latest release of PublishPress Blocks (version 2.14) introduces a feature called “Block Controls“. This will give you the ability to control who sees your blocks and when they display. This first “Block Controls” setting allows you to schedule blocks to publish and unpublish. Every…
One thing we all know about magazines is that they come out in issues. Normally, they have monthly or weekly issues with a selection of topical content. If you want to do that in WordPress, the best plugin is PublishPress Series. Magazines organized content into issues because it’s valuable. Issues can be packaged up and…
The Institute for Nonprofit News has just published interviews with 3 WordPress-based sites that cover LGBTQ issues. Click here to read the interviews. Here’s a list the three sites. They’re all non-profits, and a couple of these launched very recently. Yes Magazine: This is the most established publisher of the three. Their focus Explanatory journalism…