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Zack Katz from GravityView is someone I’ve admired for a long time. His team have run some of the coolest initiatives I’ve seen. At the end of last year, they gave $5 from each sale to charities and then they quadrupled those donations from their own pocket. They plant trees with Ecologi to offset their…
Welcome to the first of a new series about the environmental impact of the technology we use. Why should you or I care about this topic? Good question. Personally, I’ve been online 40+ hours per week for 15 years now. I’ve spun up hundreds of servers and served millions of visitors. Does any of that…
In another tutorial here at PublishPress, we showed how to hide other users’ posts in the WordPress admin area. This means that users will only see their own posts when they log in to WordPress. One PublishPress member asked us if it was possible to do the same thing for the Media Library. Yes, it…
PublishPress Authors is the best plugin for adding many authors to one WordPress post. You can create multiple authors, co-authors and guest authors. There’s new update available for both the Free and Pro versions. Authors 3.6.0 has a mix of new features and bug-fixes. You can now use the “Quick Edit” feature to select authors….
Welcome to another post in our series that features innovative WordPress publishers. This publisher is a new project: The 19th launched in August. The name of the site comes from the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment was passed in 1920 and gave women the right to vote. The 19th has a clear…
Some PublishPress users have asked us about accepting content from their site visitors. We recommend the User Submitted Posts plugin. This plugin is an excellent choice. If you rely on User Submitted Posts, your visitors don’t need an account on your site, so this can reduce the friction involved with creating content.
WordPress permissions often have confusing names. For example, edit_posts is a very important permission that controls much, much more than just editing posts. So wherever possible, we try and explain WordPress permissions in plain English. We had this question recently:
Content marketing has been on the rise for the last 10 years and for good reason. It helps businesses establish their authority, reach more people and build their audiences, so they can sell more of their products or services. It’s an effective way to grow your business, whether that’s through articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts,…
We recently looked at many different plugins to find the best one for tracking content changes. The Simple History plugin was our favorite. Simple History allows site administrators to keep a log of all tasks performed within a WordPress site. This plugin generates two tables in the WordPress database and these store all the changes…
Welcome to the first in a regular series where we focus on the very best publishers using WordPress. We’re not always looking for household brand names. We’re also searching for publishers who are building new, brave and innovative platforms. That perfectly describes TheNarwhal.ca. They are a team of investigative journalists who report environmental news and…