Easy Digital Downloads is the eCommerce plugin that we use to power PublishPress.com. This is a complete eCommerce solution for selling digital products on WordPress. We use it for selling software, but you could use it for selling any digital product.
Easy Digital Downloads has 10,000’s of users and is built by some of the most experienced and trusted developers in WordPress.
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.
When you log in to a WordPress site, you will see boxes full of information. These are called “Dashboard Widgets”. You will probably see a “Welcome to WordPress!” widget with lots of useful links. There’s also a “WordPress Events and News” widget with official updates. There’s an “At a Glance” widget so you can quickly…
Why does it always happen on a Friday afternoon? One recent Friday afternoon, we had a panic here at PublishPress. We made a minor change to one of the options in Easy Digital Downloads – that’s the eCommerce plugin we use on this site. Suddenly, all the subscription plans were broken. Whenever anyone tried to…
At the beginning of 2019, we had one business model for the plugins here at PublishPress. At the beginning of 2020, we have a completely different business model. For a few months now, I’ve been thinking about writing this post. It will hopefully be helpful to our customers who saw the changes happen. Plus, it…
PublishPress 1.20.8 is available now, along with updates for two PublishPress add-ons. PublishPress is the ideal plugin if you want to schedule content in WordPress. The most notable new feature is an improvement to shortcodes in PublishPress notifications. You can now include post metadata inside your notifications,