These posts are news, tutorials, reviews and guides to help you succeed as a WordPress publisher.
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.
With the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can choose pre-publishing requirements for your content. We’ve just released version 2.10, which has a new interface and also integrates with OpenAI. In this guide, I’ll show you how the interface makes PublishPress Checklists easier to use. I’ll also explain how to use OpenAI to automatically scan and approve…
The Last Modified Date is a key feature on many websites. This can be a helpful feature if you want people to know when the post was updated. I’ve seen this used for news articles, documentation, and even legal and technical information. The Last Modified Date does not appear by default on most WordPress sites….
If you go to the “Users” screen in WordPress, you will be able to assign users to normal roles, such as Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor, and Administrator. However, there is another option called “No role for this site”. You can think of this option as a type of blocking option. Any users who are moved…
The Theme Editor in WordPress allows you make direct changes to your site’s theme files. This is not always a good idea because changes made via the Theme Editor can easily take your site offline. There is no “undo” or “rollback” button if you make a mistake. In fact, you will see this message when…
WordPress allows you to build multisite networks. This is an awesome feature and enables you to manage many sites from a single WordPress installation. However, some WordPress features do work differently on a multisite network. If you normally manage a single site, you may have to adjust your thinking. One of these features is permissions….
“Private” is one of eight post statuses available in WordPress. These statuses control whether WordPress posts are visible to the entire world, waiting for moderation, or sent to the trash to await deletion. When you write in WordPress, you will most commonly see the Draft, Pending Review and Publish statuses. The Private status is used…
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress customer this week. They wanted to hide the “Edit” link on published WordPress posts. This customer wanted to make sure his users clicked the “New Revision” link instead of editing the post directly. This “New Revisions” link is coming from the PublishPress Revisions plugin, which gives you…
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, but what the user sees will depend on their user role. A user in the “Subscriber” role will only see…
The PublishPress Blocks plugin is growing in a new direction. The latest release of PublishPress Blocks (version 2.14) introduces a feature called “Block Controls”. This will give you the ability to control who sees your blocks and when they display. This first “Block Controls” setting allows you to schedule blocks to publish and unpublish. Every…