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…
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…
One PublishPress user asked us if it’s possible to rearrange metaboxes in 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 show the move they wanted:
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:…
The Gutenberg editor provokes a lot of debate in the WordPress world. Some people love Gutenberg – we’re in that camp and built the PublishPress Blocks plugin. Some people really don’t like Gutenberg and prefer to stick with the editor they’ve used for years. However, most WordPress users have more mixed feelings and prefer to…
The PublishPress Permissions plugin allows you to customize who can read and edit individual items in WordPress. You can control user access using a metabox. This metabox can control access to Posts, Pages, Categories, Media and more. Click here for more details on this feature. We had a question this week from a user who…
Several PublishPress customers have asked us if it’s possible to customize the WooCommerce Order screens. You can can see an example of an Order in the screenshot below. Yes, this is possible with the PublishPress Capabilities Pro plugin, and in this guide I’ll show you how it’s done, using the Editor Features option.
PublishPress Capabilities is now at version 2.4.2, and this latest release brings several useful new features. Our goal with PublishPress Capabilities is to provide a complete user management tool for WordPress. In this release, we’re moving towards that goal with several new features, including these: More control over Gutenberg and Classic Editor. The ability to…
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, and particularly in Gutenberg, there are a ton of sidebar, tabs, settings, metaboxes, and configuration options.
PublishPress Capabilities 2.3.5 is available now and the major new feature is a “Roles” screen. This is one place where you can view and manage all the user roles on your site. This Roles screen is going to be the cornerstone of many new features we’ll add to PublishPress Capabilities in the next few months….