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If you write a lot of WordPress posts, it’s easy to make mistakes. That’s why we built the PublishPress Checklists plugin. It automatically catches many of our errors before we publish. In this post, we’ll introduce a feature in PublishPress Checklists that checks for broken links in your content (both external links and internal links).
With the PublishPress Future plugin, you can update your content using custom workflows. You can create workflows to automatically unpublish, delete, change metadata, change post details, send emails, and much more. PublishPress Future 4.7 is here and it makes the plugin insanely more powerful. In this version, you can add interactive steps so your users…
WPML is a popular WordPress plugin that enables you to turn any WordPress website into a multilingual website. WPML is short for “WordPress Multilingual Plugin”. The PublishPress Capabilities plugin has support for WPML. This means that you can create user roles that are allowed to access specific areas of the WPML plugin.
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…
One PublishPress user asked us if it’s possible to rearrange metaboxes in the WordPress post editor. They are using the block editor (Gutenberg) This user has installed the PublishPress Checklists plugin and wanted the checklist area to be at the top of sidebar when writing posts. This image shows the move they wanted:
If I had to pick a word to describe my experience with large WordPress sites, it’s “overwhelming”. There are so many admin notices, plugin alerts, review requests, and other demands for your attention. In the post editor, you’ll find a ton of sidebar, tabs, settings, metaboxes, and configuration options.
Jacob Donnelly is the founder of A Media Operator (AMO) Over the last five year, he’s grown AMO from a newsletter to a fully-fledged media organization. Soon after launching, Jacob moved from Substack to WordPress with the goal of owning his platform and audience. Jacob and AMO have covered huge changes in the publishing industry…
Earlier this week, we had a question from a PublishPress user. They are using PublishPress Permissions to control access to specific posts and pages. In the image below, you can see the metabox from the PublishPress Permissions plugin. For each role, you can choose whether or not they can edit this page. The Author and…
Many WordPress themes rely on Featured Images, but they can be a mystery to many users. What exactly is a Featured Image in WordPress? A Featured Image represents the mood, or theme of your Post. If you’re writing a post about Lego, the featured image should probably be an image of Lego bricks.
One of our most popular recent posts on this blog explained how to rearrange metaboxes in the Gutenberg editor. This post is useful because the system for moving metaboxes has some confusing points. Yes, you can move some metaboxes up and down, but the default boxes can not be moved. The image below highlights the…