Here at PublishPress, I write about WordPress for publishers. One of the key players in the WordPress publishing ecosystem is Newspack. They have a hosted service, but it’s also possible to download and use Newspack independently. In this guide, I’ll introduce Newspack and show how you can use it for self-hosted projects.
Jetpack is one of the most popular plugins in WordPress with over 5 million users. The plugin is a swiss-army knife that offers users a ton of helpful features including security, spam-blocking, backups, traffic statistics, and more. Several PublishPress customers have asked us how to control access to the Jetpack settings. For example, one user…
As everyone waited to find out the winners in last week’s elections for US president and Congress, one winner was immediately obvious: WordPress. Earlier in the election cycle, we saw the PublishPress plugin used by more than one presidential candidate. Even so, it was still surprising to see WordPress used in almost every 2020 race,…
We recently looked at many different plugins to find the best one for tracking content changes. The Simple History plugin was our favorite. Simple History allows site administrators to keep a log of all tasks performed within a WordPress site. This plugin generates two tables in the WordPress database and these store all the changes…
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…
Here at PublishPress, we’re very focused on the publishing experience in WordPress. One of the key players in the WordPress publishing ecosystem is Newspack. Newspack is a project from Automattic (the owners of WordPress.com, but not WordPress.org) that aims to help small newspapers run their sites on WordPress. Here’s the official description of Newspack:
Long, scrolling pages are really popular right now, which makes sense. They’re more mobile-friendly than oversized navigations. They allow you to present a lot of information in a cleaner fashion. They’re also great for taking visitors through a logical journey, starting with their pain all the way through to your solution. But just because visitors…