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PublishPress Series is the best way to manage newspaper and magazine issues in WordPress. To help more users, we’ve just moved one of the most useful features from the Pro version to the Free version. All users of PublishPress Series now have access to the “Publish Series” screen. This is available under the “Posts” link…
There’s a WordPress-based publisher that has been filling up my news feed with a medical insurance story today: Here’s the story: “Need an organ transplant in Mississippi? You may be out of luck thanks to an insurance dispute“ Mississippi Today is a non-profit that started in 2016 with a focus on statehouse government. They’ve grown…
PublishPress Capabilities 2.3.5 is available now and the major new feature is a “Roles” screen. This is one place where you can view and manage all the user roles on your site. This Roles screen is going to be the cornerstone of many new features we’ll add to PublishPress Capabilities in the next few months….
Want to be impressed by what a small independent publisher can do with WordPress? Check out this story from British Columbia, with photos, graphics and text. If you asked me to pick one new WordPress publisher that I follow and admire most, it would be probably be The Narwhal. Since 2018, they’ve grown to over…
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been working on a large number of improvements to PublishPress Blocks Pro. In the latest version, you’ll see dozens of new design, layout, and alignment options, plus lots of other improvements. Almost all of the ideas for improvements have come from PublishPress users. Here’s a rundown of the new…
PublishPress Blocks is the plugin you need to publish advanced and professional content in the new WordPress block editor. PublishPress Blocks has several key features in one plugin, including latest content blocks, layout options, sliders, maps, icons, and image galleries, plus custom CSS styles.
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,…