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This week, a PublishPress user asked us if it is possible to customize the permissions for a single WordPress user. Their request was like this: This request makes a ton of sense. Normally in WordPress you’d need to make a whole new user role for this. You’d create a role called “John” and put him…
February 2026 was absolutely revolutionary for WordPress security. Austin Ginder runs a hosting company and he was suddenly overwhelmed by new hacking attempts. Austin’s response was creative, constructive, and inspiring. In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Austin about how AI is transforming WordPress security. Austin started as a skeptic but has…
If you write blog posts in your browser, you have probably had the gut-wrenching experience of losing content. Maybe your browser crashed. Perhaps your internet connection dropped. But when you went back to your post, your content was missing. Ouch! Fortunately, autosaves are a WordPress feature that can help you avoid losing your content. WordPress…
Robbie Adair has run her agency for over 20 years and has navigated many technology shifts. In this episode, Robbie says that we’re in the middle of a major shift in the WordPress business. AI means that products are less valuable, but services are more valuable than ever. Customers need experts to help them navigate…
If you run a WordPress website with many users, you probably have to answer account questions or solve website bugs for your users. Here at PublishPress, we rely heavily on the User Testing feature in the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. This allows us to browse our site and see exactly what the user sees. User Testing…
PublishPress Series 3.1.2 adds a clearer Post Summary field, expands translations, and fixes an admin translation warning for smoother series management.
We have PublishPress customers who sometimes want to publish posts with no author attached. There are many reasons why they want anonymous blog posts. Sometimes the post is an official statement from the company and doesn’t have a single author. Sometime the post is controversial and the safe choice is not to attach a person’s…
Amber Hinds from Equalize Digital has spent years helping publishers to make their websites more accessible and user-friendly for everyone, including those with disabilities. In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I ask Amber accessibility questions I’ve heard from publishers. For example, is it helpful to have an audio version of my articles? Should we…
Not everyone needs the same font size in the WordPress admin area. By default, almost all the text in WordPress is shown with a 13 pixel font. However, that font size may be too small for some users. Some people want larger text because they have aging eyes or vision conditions. Some people find that…
We have a lot of guests on the PublishPress podcast who are building paywalls for publishers. Chris Ward from The Publisher Desk believes we should take a different direction. He argues that paywalls only make sense when you combine them with a strong commitment to advertising. Some users will just never pay for content, but…