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.
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 …
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…
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….
We develop a plugin called PublishPress Revisions that allows you to submit, approve and schedule changes to your WordPress content. However, PublishPress Revisions doesn’t (yet) keep an easily visible log of all your content changes. This week, someone emailed us and wanted to know if this was possible using another plugin. I decided to install…
Some PublishPress users have asked us about accepting content from their site visitors. We recommend the User Submitted Posts plugin. This plugin is an excellent choice. If you rely on User Submitted Posts, your visitors don’t need an account on your site, so this can reduce the friction involved with creating content.
The Glossary plugin allows you to create a glossary on your WordPress site. This can be very useful feature for your visitors, particularly if you work in an industry with lots of jargon or unusual words. The Glossary plugin allows you to automatically create links from words to the corresponding term page in the glossary….
PublishPress Checklists is the plugin if you want to control the quality of your WordPress content. You can define tasks that authors must complete before content is published. These tasks are things like writing a minimum number of words, or adding a featured image.
When you use PublishPress Checklists, you set requirements that writers must complete before their content is published. Here are are some examples of those requirements: Posts must have a minimum of 600 words. Pages must have a featured image. Posts must have between 5 and 10 categories. Pages must use the Excerpt. No broken links…
It can be a complicated process to replace images and media files in WordPress. The Enable Media Replace plugin enables you to quickly upload replacement images. What is complex about the default process? For example, if you want to replace an image in a WordPress post, you have to do the following: Access the Media…
Do you care about creating great content with WordPress? Now there’s a plugin that allows you to ensure all your content meets your high standards. We’ve just released version 2.0 of the PublishPress Checklists plugin. This version is now a stand-alone plugin. It also has full support for WooCommerce products, and it can be white-labelled.