Here at PublishPress, our focus is on creating publishing workflows in WordPress. This includes allowing you to create custom statuses in WordPress. However, before moving on to more advanced workflows, people often need some clarity on the basic workflow features in WordPress. For example, what exactly is the difference between “Pending Review” and “Draft”?
Last month, we adopted the “Organize Series” plugin. We’re pleased to say we’ve renamed the plugin “PublishPress Series” and have released a new version of the plugin with many bug-fixes and improvements. PublishPress Series is a plugin that allows you to group content together into a series. This is ideal for magazines, newspapers, short-story writers,…
Today, I’m delighted to announce that we’ve adopted the “Organize Series” plugin and extensions. “Organize Series” is a plugin that allows you to group 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. The plugin aligns perfectly with…
We had a really interesting question from a PublishPress user: We have many clients who we write posts for. We write the posts 6 months in advance, and get them approved by the clients. Is this possible with the PublishPress plugins? The answer is “Yes”, you can do this. In this tutorial, I’ll show you…
Phew! 2020 is over. That was intense. 2020 was a difficult personal year for many of our team, with family members passing away, losing jobs, and enduring hard times. Fortunately, the PublishPress business was a bright spot this year. Our team (Anderson, Kevin, Valentin, and myself) rallied together. And our customers were great – I…
In the middle of 2020, we acquired a plugin called “Advanced Gutenberg”. It is a plugin that adds over 20 extra blocks to the Gutenberg interface, along with custom layouts, CSS styles, and permissions for blocks. This week, we renamed the plugin to “PublishPress Blocks”. There’s a couple of reasons for this change:
One PublishPress user asked us if it was possible to have different statuses for different WordPress post types. This user wanted to have a customized workflow for each post type. For example, this is a possible approach they could use: Posts can move between these statuses: Draft, Pitch, Assigned, Approved, Published. Pages can move between…
Update: this plugin is now called “PublishPress Blocks”. In February this year, I received an email from the team at JoomUnited. We’ve crossed paths several times over the last decade or more. This time, they had an offer: “Would you be interested in taking over the Advanced Gutenberg plugin?” Advanced Gutenberg is a plugin that…
WordPress is no longer a simple blogging platform it once was. Out of the box, it can be molded into a sophisticated content management system that handles complicated back-end requirements. However, your site may have requirements, that can’t be easily met with just the WordPress core. The PublishPress plugin meets one of such requirements. It…
The slogan of PublishPress is “Professional Publishing Tools for WordPress”. The latest PublishPress add-on allows a large team to work effectively in WordPress. By default, WordPress offers a fixed set of publishing permissions: Contributors can write their own posts. Authors can write and also publish their own posts. Editors can edit and publish posts by…