bbPress WordPress Tutorials and Documentation

PublishPress Future Pro is Now Available

Written by Steve Burge on February 23, 2023.

PublishPress Future is one of the most popular and useful plugins we develop. The free version of the plugin has over 100,000 users.

The plugin enables you to make automatic changes to posts on a date you choose. Here are some examples:

Delete a post in one month.
Update the post status to “Draft” next week.
Add the category “Archive” in 6 weeks.
Remove the WooCommerce product category “Sale” after Black Friday.

The plugin was called “Post Expirator” and we adopted it almost two years ago. During this time we've been working on modernizing the codebase and making the plugin as reliable as possible.

I'm delighted to say that there's now a Pro version of PublishPress Future.

Automatically Add Terms to Your WordPress Posts with TaxoPress

Written by Steve Burge on March 10, 2022.

If you have a busy site with lots of content, it can be difficult to keep it organized. Normally, WordPress sites use Tags and Categories to organize content. However, if you're publishing 10, 100 or even 1,000's of posts every day, it can be hard to find and add the correct Tags and Categories.

One solution is to use the TaxoPress plugin. TaxoPress has an “Auto Terms” feature that can scan your content and automatically assign terms. These can be existing terms on your site, or entirely new terms chosen by analyzing your posts.

How to Control Permissions for the Contact Form 7 Plugin

Written by Steve Burge on April 14, 2021.

Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular plugins in the WordPress world. However, it is a fairly basic plugin that lacks some key features such as access control.

In this guide, I'll show you how to control access to Contact Form 7 features. We'll use the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. If you want to take this tutorial a step further, check out how to control access to Contact Form 7 admin menus.

Create Users Who Can Only See Gravity Forms Entries

Written by Steve Burge on March 11, 2021.

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.

An Introduction to bbPress Roles and Capabilities

Written by Steve Burge on February 16, 2021.

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 how to manage roles and capabilities in bbPress. I'll also touch on what bbPress does differently, and what it means for PublishPress users.

Where are WordPress Users and Permissions Stored in the Database?

Written by Steve Burge on February 9, 2021.

Several of our PublishPress plugins allow you to control what users can do on your WordPress site. These plugins allow you to change user permissions via the WordPress admin area.

However, there's a lot going on behind the scenes. PublishPress customers often have questions from users about WordPress permissions and where they are stored in the database. This post is an introduction to those database tables.

One thing to note: although most people refer to “user permissions” or perhaps “user access”, WordPress uses the word “capabilities”.

The remaining PressPermit.com plugins are moving to PublishPress.com

Written by Steve Burge on April 26, 2019.

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.

The Capability Manager Enhanced Plugin Arrives at PublishPress

Written by Steve Burge on March 14, 2019.

Update: this plugin is now called “PublishPress Capabilities”.

I'm delighted to say that the Capability Manager Enhanced plugin is now part of the PublishPress family.

This is one of the most popular Permissions plugins on WordPress.org, with over 70,000 active installs.

PublishPress Acquires the Press Permit Plugins

Written by Steve Burge on February 18, 2019.

We’re delighted to announce that PublishPress has acquired Press Permit.

We have been talking about working together since early 2018. Yes, the companies do have very similar names, but there's more to it than that!

Both Press Permit and PublishPress are known for developing WordPress plugins that focus on publishing.

Say Hello to PublishPress

Written by Steve Burge on March 14, 2017.

We've just released a new plugin called PublishPress.

The goal of PublishPress is to become an essential plugin for any WordPress site with multiple writers.

PublishPress gives you the tools to set up a custom publishing workflow. Here are just a few of the key features:

You can see all your scheduled posts in a single calendar view.
Inside WordPress, you can have collaborative discussions about each post.
Your team can choose custom post statuses, and get beyond simply “Draft” and “Pending Review”.
You can set requirements that must be met for content to published.

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