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Create Beautiful and Flexible Layouts for PublishPress Series

Written by Steve Burge on June 6, 2022.

PublishPress Series is a plugin that we acquired last year.

The Series plugin allows you to collect WordPress content together into a series. This is ideal for magazines, newspapers, short-story writers, teachers, comic artists, or anyone who writes multiple posts on the same topic.

Over the last few months, we've been working to modernize the plugin and make it easier to use. We're happy to say that you can now easily create beautiful layouts with PublishPress Series. This is possible thanks to a new integration with the PublishPress Blocks plugin.

PublishPress Blocks Pro Supports Google Fonts in Gutenberg

Written by Steve Burge on May 2, 2022.

PublishPress Blocks is one of the most popular plugins for Gutenberg blocks with over 30,000 users.

In the latest release of PublishPress Blocks Pro, you'll find some really cool new design options, including these:

Google Fonts: You can choose from over 1,000 fonts to use in your blocks.
Content Display block: This block is the best way to showcase your content in WordPress, and there's now a ton of new customization options.

In this guide, I'll give you an introduction to all these major new features in PublishPress Blocks.

PublishPress Blocks Pro Has Dozens of New Features

Written by Steve Burge on April 12, 2022.

Over the last few weeks, we've been working on a large number of improvements to PublishPress Blocks Pro.

In the latest version, you'll see dozens of new design, layout, and alignment options, plus lots of other improvements. Almost all of the ideas for improvements have come from PublishPress users.

Here's a rundown of the new features in the Pro version of PublishPress Blocks.

PublishPress Capabilities Can Hide Metaboxes, and Any Editor Feature

Written by Steve Burge on September 8, 2021.

Back in June, we released “Editor Features” in the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. This allowed you to hide almost any feature on the post editing screen.

Why do I say “almost”? Because the first release of Editor Features could not hide metaboxes.

I'm happy to say that you can now use PublishPress Capabilities to hide metaboxes. This means that when users are writing a post, you can hide ANYTHING that you don't want them to see.

Why would you want to hide features from your users? Some people do this so that the post editing screen is cleaner and less confusing. Other people do this for security and to prevent users from changing some key settings.

Introducing “Editor Features” in PublishPress Capabilities

Written by Steve Burge on June 24, 2021.

If you use the PublishPress Capabilities plugin, you're going to find the new “Editor Features” really useful!

What does “Editor Features” do? It allows you to clean up the post editing screen. You can decide what users see when they're writing posts.

Control the Size of Featured Images with PublishPress Checklists

Written by Steve Burge on April 2, 2021.

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 popular options allows you to force all posts to have a featured image. PublishPress Checklists Pro now takes this one step further: you can require a specific height and width for all your featured images. This feature is useful because many themes only look good if your featured images are the correct size.

What is the Excerpt for WordPress Posts?

Written by Steve Burge on February 1, 2021.

Many WordPress themes rely on Excerpts, but they can be a mystery to many users.

In this post, I'll explain what an Excerpt is, how you create them, where they appear, and how you can get more control over how they're used on your site.

Choose a Minimum and Maximum Number of Tags and Categories in WordPress

Written by Steve Burge on January 15, 2021.

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 …

What Post Details Are Stored in WordPress Revisions?

Written by Steve Burge on November 19, 2020.

We develop the PublishPress Revisions plugin that allows you to submit, moderate, approve, and schedule revisions.

This plugin is built on top of the core revisions feature in WordPress.

Our Revisions Pro plugin is able to capture all of the data that has changed in your WordPress posts. However, that is not true of the normal revisions feature. People often tell us that their revisions are missing data.

PublishPress Checklists 2.4 Has New Approval and Link Features

Written by Steve Burge on September 22, 2020.

PublishPress Checklists is a plugin that we've been working on throughout 2020. With this plugin, you can define tasks that users must complete before content is published.

For example, you can make sure your posts have a minimum or maximum number of words. Or you can ensure that all your posts have a featured image.

After working on PublishPress Checklists all year, the plugin is finally at a point where honestly I can say, “This is awesome!”

Version 2.4 of Checklists is now available with new features that I've been looking forward to for a long time.

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