If you write a lot of WordPress posts, it’s easy to make mistakes including broken links. That’s why we built the PublishPress Checklists plugin. It automatically catches many of our errors before we publish. The Checklists plugin will scan all your URLs. This feature won’t check the destination URL, but it will check the link format to make sure you haven’t used URLs such as htpps// or .nt.
When you use the PublishPress Checklists plugin, you can define tasks that content creators must complete before their posts are published. For example, you can make sure your posts have a minimum or maximum number of words. Or you can require that all the images in the post have ALT text. One of the most…
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).
This question came across the PublishPress support desk this week: Do you know how to set a maximum character length on the excerpt field? I need to be the point of entry, rather than when displaying it on the frontend. I want to force the user to write an excerpt of a certain length. Yes,…
Tags and Categories are the two ways you can categorize your WordPress content. There’s often a debate about the right way to use Tags and Categories in order to optimize your sites for search engines. Let’s take a look at advice on how to use Tags and Categories …
We had a really interesting question from a PublishPress user: We have many clients who we write posts for. We write the posts 6 months in advance, and get them approved by the clients. Is this possible with the PublishPress plugins? The answer is “Yes”, you can do this. In this tutorial, I’ll show you…
When you use PublishPress Checklists, you set requirements that writers must complete before their content is published. Here are are some examples of those requirements: Posts must have a minimum of 600 words. Pages must have a featured image. Posts must have between 5 and 10 categories. Pages must use the Excerpt. No broken links…
WordPress is no longer a simple blogging platform it once was. Out of the box, it can be molded into a sophisticated content management system that handles complicated back-end requirements. However, your site may have requirements, that can’t be easily met with just the WordPress core. The PublishPress plugin meets one of such requirements. It…
Update: this plugin is now called PublishPress Checklists. The slogan of PublishPress is “Professional Publishing Tools for WordPress”. Before you publish WordPress posts, do your authors have things you always check for? A minimum number of words? Yoast SEO green check marks for SEO and readability? A certain number of categories and tags? A featured image? These…
Update: Our new and improved plugin is now live! The new plugin is PublishPress Checklists! These tutorials will give more details on what PublishPress Checklists can do: Set a maximum or minimum number of words. Choose a minimum and maximum number of tags and categories. Before you publish WordPress posts, do you have things you…