One PublishPress user wrote to us and asked about this situation: “I would like every user to get a place where they can enter their own journal entries that no one else can see.”
This it is possible to set up private journals with the PublishPress plugins, and I'll explain how in this post.
“Private” is one of eight post statuses available in WordPress. These statuses control whether WordPress posts are visible to the entire world, waiting for moderation, or sent to the trash to await deletion.
When you write in WordPress, you will most commonly see the Draft, Pending Review and Publish statuses.
The Private status is used less frequently, but it can be useful in some situations. Private posts are for content that you only want high-level users to see. These posts are most useful for internal communication and documentation. I would not recommend storing top-secret information in these posts, but rather want to hide content from regular users.
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:
Over the last few weeks, we've been working hard on PublishPress compatibility with Gutenberg.
Gutenberg has been a challenge, to say the least. But we'll have more details on that in another blog post next week.
In the meantime, PublishPress 1.17 is available today. It adds some features, fixes a security hole and resolves some bugs.
Here's an overview of what's new in PublishPress 1.17: