Our goal is to help WordPress publishers succeed. These posts have advice and tutorials on other plugins that can improve your WordPress publishing.
We have a PublishPress customer who also uses the Gravity Forms plugin. They asked us if it was possible to create a user who can do nothing in WordPress, except for edit form entries in Gravity Forms. Yes, this is possible, and this tutorial will show you how.
Here at PublishPress, we’re able to support almost any other WordPress plugin. However, there is one popular plugin called bbPress that doesn’t always work smoothly with our code, or other user management plugins. bbPress has over 300,000 users and is the commonly used discussion board in WordPress. I’m going to give you a guide on…
The Elementor plugin is an excellent good page-builder for WordPress sites. It is also growing very fast, with huge numbers of new downloads every day. This week, one PublishPress customer asked us if it was possible to allow some WordPress users to edit a single post with Elementor. Our first thought was “yes, this is…
We had an interesting question from one of our users who is using the LearnDash plugin for the WordPress Learning Management system. They wanted to lock down many of the LearnDash features and create a user role role that can only access the “Lessons” and “Topics” submenus in LearnDash. This is possible thanks to the…
The Beaver Builder plugin is an excellent good page-builder for WordPress sites. This week, one PublishPress customer asked us if it was possible to allow some WordPress users to edit a single page with Beaver Builder. Our first thought was “yes, this is easy”. We’ve done it before many times using this approach, this approach…
When you log in to a WordPress site, you will see boxes full of information. These are called “Dashboard Widgets”. You will probably see a “Welcome to WordPress!” widget with lots of useful links. There’s also a “WordPress Events and News” widget with official updates. There’s an “At a Glance” widget so you can quickly…
WordPress sites display an admin toolbar for all logged-in users. This is visible on the frontend of your site and also in the WordPress admin area. This toolbar contains shortcuts to key features in WordPress. A user in the Subscriber role will only see a few features. A user in the Administrator role may see…
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…
W3 Total Cache is one of the most popular performance and caching plugins in WordPress. W3 Total Cache has caching features, but also offers multiple other options for improving your site’s speed. A large number of users install PublishPress plugins and also W3 Total Cache on their site. So we’ve had some questions about how…
JetEngine is a very ambitious project that attempts to do almost everything for a WordPress website. JetEngine is available from Crocoblock.com and supports both Gutenberg and Elementor. Their products span everything from Gutenberg blocks and themes to creating post types and options pages. This image below is taken from their website and gives you some…