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”?
PublishPress 3.4 is available now, and it has a completely new editorial calendar.
The old calendar had been around for many years and was starting to show its age. The old version used PHP for 80% of the codebase and only relied on Javascript for the drag-and-drop actions. This legacy code meant that the calendar was slow to load, slow to refresh, and difficult for us to update.
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 normal revisions feature. People often tell us that their revisions are missing data.
If you're running a busy website, it's important to get a clear understanding of what content is being published.
The PublishPress plugin does offer a Calendar view where you can see all your content in a week-by-week layout. However, a Calendar view must inevitably hide some information or else it would become unbearably crowded.
For a clean view of all the key data for all your WordPress content, try the Content Overview screen in the PublishPress plugin.
Revisions is one the most useful features in WordPress. Every time you update your content, WordPress makes a change.
However, the idea may be great, the reality sometimes falls short. You may find that some content and fields do not have their data stored in your site's revisions.
Sometimes the simplest questions can lead you down the biggest rabbit holes.
A few weeks ago, I asked our team, “What is the best way to translate WordPress plugins?“
We need an answer because we've been growing quickly here at PublishPress. More users are asking if our plugins are available in different languages.
This was a busy year here at PublishPress.
I wanted to take a moment to explain what happened at PublishPress in 2019. There were major changes this year that will probably require you to update your site, if you have been using our plugins for some time.
Our goal is to create powerful publishing plugins for WordPress.
To reach that goal, we made a big acquisition that has taken us some time to absorb. One thing we did to absorb the new plugins was a change the way our plugins were structured.
At the beginning of 2019, everything was an add-on to the main PublishPress plugin. At the end of 2019, we have six separate plugins.
This post explained why we made that change.
We now have 6 plugins. Each plugin has a Free and Pro version. Every Free version is on WordPress.org and every Pro version is behind the paywall for PublishPress members.
This image shows those six plugins:
Here's a quick overview of those six plugins:
During 2019, we also renamed some plugins. The goal was to create a product line up that’s consistent and easy to understand:
The 2019 roadmap is now complete!
Our focus is now to improve these six plugins. Our 2020 roadmap is “Integrate and Improve”. All our plugins will integrate smoothly. You will have a consistent and trustworthy experience, no matter which PublishPress plugins you use.
I hope this helps you understand what you can expect from your PublishPress membership. We truly believe this roadmap will provide you with a suite of powerful publishing plugins for WordPress.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the comments or email us.
Here at PublishPress, we're focused on the publishing experience in WordPress. And there's interesting news on the horizon for WordPress publishers.
Matt Mullenweg and the WordPress team want to bring Google Docs-style editing to the new editor in Gutenberg Phase 3. This means that multiple people can be updating the same document at the same time.
Version 1.20.7 of PublishPress is available today, along with updates for the PublishPress add-ons. PublishPress is the ideal plugin if you want to schedule content in WordPress.
Here's an overview of this week's releases:
Over the last week, we've put out a couple of PublishPress releases, moving up to version 1.20.4. PublishPress is the ideal plugin if you want to schedule content in WordPress.
These releases had a series of small improvements and bug-fixes. Let me give you an overview of what's changed …