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.
The most common reason for building a personal or business site is to be contacted by other people with common interests, or clients. The Contact Form block in PublishPress Blocks makes this possible. The block provides a simple feedback form with customizable options. You can create personalized contact forms for each post, or a unified…
Matt Mullenweg introduced the Gutenberg project at WordCamp US in late 2016. If you want a big picture overview of why Gutenberg was built, I recommend Matt’s post, “We Called it Gutenberg for a Reason“. We are nearly 4 years into the project now, and are not yet half-way through. The Gutenberg project is split…
The Knight Foundation is a charitable organization with deep roots in the news world. The foundation was started by two brothers, James and John Knight. They were part of Knight-Ridder, which was one of the largest newspaper chains in the US. The Knight Foundation now invests heavily in supporting journalism. They’ve just awarded grants worth…
Here at PublishPress, we’re focused on the publishing experience in WordPress. And lately we’ve been learning about new publishing features that may be coming to the new editor in Gutenberg Phase 3. Back in November 2019, we wrote about collaborative Google Docs-style editing in WordPress. This image gives a good idea of what we’re talking…
Here at PublishPress, we’re very focused on the publishing experience in WordPress. In recent weeks, there’s been very interesting news for WordPress publishers with the launch of Newspack. This is a project from Automattic (the owners of WordPress.com, but not WordPress.org) that aims to help small newspapers run their sites on WordPress.
Here at PublishPress, we’re focused on the publishing experience in WordPress. And lately we’ve been learning about new publishing features that may be coming to WordPress. The WordPress team want to bring Google Docs-style editing to the new Gutenberg editor. This means that multiple people can be updating the same document at the same time….
Here at PublishPress, we’re very focused on the publishing experience in WordPress. One of the key players in the WordPress publishing ecosystem is Newspack. Newspack is a project from Automattic (the owners of WordPress.com, but not WordPress.org) that aims to help small newspapers run their sites on WordPress. Here’s the official description of Newspack:
Here at PublishPress, we’re focused on the publishing experience in WordPress. And there’s interesting news on the horizon for WordPress publishers. Matt Mullenweg and the WordPress team want to bring Google Docs-style editing to the new editor in Gutenberg Phase 3. This means that multiple people can be updating the same document at the same…
Just over two months ago, we acquired the Press Permit plugins. Just importantly, Kevin (the original developer of the plugins) came to work with us. Two plugins have already moved here to PublishPress: Revisionary and Capability Manager Enhanced. The next step is to move the remaining Press Permit plugins over here to PublishPress.com.