If I had to pick a word to describe my experience with busy WooCommerce sites, it’s “overwhelming”. There are so many admin notices, plugin alerts, review requests, and other demands for your attention. In the product editor, there are a ton of sidebar, tabs, settings, metaboxes, and configuration options.
One PublishPress user asked us if it’s possible to rearrange metaboxes in the WordPress post editor. They are using the block editor (Gutenberg) This user has installed the PublishPress Checklists plugin and wanted the checklist area to be at the top of sidebar when writing posts. This image shows the move they wanted:
If I had to pick a word to describe my experience with large WordPress sites, it’s “overwhelming”. There are so many admin notices, plugin alerts, review requests, and other demands for your attention. In the post editor, you’ll find a ton of sidebar, tabs, settings, metaboxes, and configuration options.
One of our most popular recent posts on this blog explained how to rearrange metaboxes in the Gutenberg editor. This post is useful because the system for moving metaboxes has some confusing points. Yes, you can move some metaboxes up and down, but the default boxes can not be moved. The image below highlights the…
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 Gutenberg block editor makes it easy to add and edit content in WordPress. However, sometimes you want to do just the opposite! Sometimes your content should not be updated. With the PublishPress plugins, you can completely prevent some users from adding new blocks to your WordPress content. In this guide, I’ll share two ways…
“Block Permissions” is one of the most popular features in the PublishPress Blocks plugin. This feature allows you to control which blocks are available to different user roles. For example, if you want to prevent some user roles from adding “Table” blocks, you can block them from doing that with this feature. The system is…
Many of us spend a lot of time working on our content. We spend hours making sure the spelling, grammar, punctuation are as good as possible. So we are worried about losing content. What happens if my browser crashes? What happens if someone edits my post and makes a mistake? Fortunately, WordPress has the solution:…
Have you ever wondered what “Draft” or “Pending Review” mean when you’re writing a WordPress post? These are called “post statuses”. In this guide, I’m going to introduce you to “Draft”, “Pending Review” and the other post statuses that are available for WordPress posts. These statuses control whether WordPress posts are visible to the entire…
WordPress is a platform that focuses on publishers. The project’s mission is to “Democratize Publishing“. However, WordPress does lack some key features that most publishers need. One of these missing features is custom statuses. The current choice for WordPress users is between “Draft” and “Pending Review”. Here’s a typical request from one of our PublishPress…