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PublishPress Authors 3.16 is now available and it has a new feature that many customers have requested. You can now allow users to update their own author profiles. If a user has an author profile linked to their account, they will now see an “Author Profile” screen in the menu. They can update their profile…
If you have a busy site with lots of content, it can be difficult to keep it organized. Normally, WordPress sites use Tags and Categories to organize content. However, if you’re publishing 10, 100 or even 1,000’s of posts every day, it can be hard to find and add the correct Tags and Categories. One…
In 2018, we launched PublishPress.com as a side-project. In 2019, PublishPress was growing quickly and we began to see it as a project with real potential. So at the end of that year, we started to write year-end reviews. You can read previous reviews for 2019 and 2020. These reviews are for our customers. Thank…
PublishPress Series has a new update this week: version 2.7.1. The PublishPress 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. There are a lot of small fixes in this release,…
If you use the PublishPress Capabilities plugin, please update to the latest version which is currently 2.3.1. A week ago, the WPScan team notified us about a security issue in earlier versions of PublishPress Capabilities. That issue is fixed in 2.3.1, so please update your sites. The WordPress.org plugin team have been very helpful. They…
The Post Expirator plugin allows you to choose an “expire” date for WordPress posts. The plugin has over 100,000 users and has been working reliably for years. We’re delighted to say that Post Expirator is now part of PublishPress and it has new name: “PublishPress Future”.
PublishPress Revisions is the plugin that allows you to safely make changes to WordPress posts. You can edit a post and submit those changes for feedback and approval, before it goes live on your site. It’s also possible to schedule those changes to go live on a future date. All of these features make PublishPress…
One thing we often hear from new WordPress users is that the interface is noisy. Especially once you have a few plugins installed, it’s easy for the admin area to become overwhelmed with notifications, messages, links, alerts, and widgets. We’re on a mission to solve that with PublishPress Capabilities. We want to bring simplicity back…
Jetpack is one of the most popular plugins in WordPress with over 5 million users. The plugin is a swiss-army knife that offers users a ton of helpful features including security, spam-blocking, backups, traffic statistics, and more. Several PublishPress customers have asked us how to control access to the Jetpack settings. For example, one user…
This week, we talked with a PublishPress customer who has a busy site with many posts from different authors. They wanted to create an “inbox” effect, where the WordPress “Posts” screen is like a personal email inbox for each author. In the image below, you can see posts from multiple different authors. This can be…