A Featured Image represents the mood, or theme of your WordPress post. If you’re writing a post about apples, the featured image should probably be an image of apples.
Both Posts and Pages have a Featured Image option.
If you’re new to WordPress, you will find the “Featured Image” box on the right-hand side of the screen when creating posts.
Click on the “Set Featured Image” link and this will open the WordPress Media Uploader. You can use that to upload an image from your computer or use an existing image from your Media Library.
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:
The “upload_files” capability is one of the most important in WordPress. If users don’t have the “upload_files” capability, they completely lose access to the Media Library. They can’t upload files or even browse media on your site. If users do not have the “upload_files” capability, this image below shows what they will see when they use…
A couple of PublishPress users have asked us about the “Featured Image” feature in WordPress. We have already talked about forcing users to add featured images and how to control the size of featured images. These users wanted to know if it is possible to control who can add featured images to content. Yes, you…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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.
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…
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.