This week, a PublishPress customer wanted to understand the relationship between authors and comments their WordPress posts. The customer wanted to know if authors could see manage comments on their own posts. This tutorial is a guide to understanding the control that users have over comments on posts. You can also click this link if…
Categories and Tags are the main ways you can organize WordPress content. However, on a normal WordPress site, both Categories and Tags are only available for Posts. This means that you can’t organize your Pages, unless you use the Parent/Child setup. You also can’t perform some useful tasks with PublishPress plugins. For example, you could…
WordPress sites can get really, really big. We regularly get questions from customers about sites with massive numbers of users. An example this week was a site with over 500,000 users. The _user_meta table had grown to almost a million rows. Once your userbase gets this big, even the simple things get complicated. Yes, large…
This week, one PublishPress user asked us about an interesting WordPress problem. They could not see the “Author” dropdown option when they were writing posts. This screenshot below shows how the Author dropdown normally appears:
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”?
This week we talked with a PublishPress user who wanted to hide “Quick Edit” for some user roles on their website. For most people, the “Quick Edit” button is not a problem, because the users probably also have access to the “Edit” button. However, in some situations, the site owners don’t want their users to…
In May 2021, we took over running the Post Expirator plugin. Post Expirator allows you to choose an expiry date for WordPress posts. When your post is automatically unpublished, you can delete the post, change the status, or update the post categories. Until now, these features were available to anyone with post editing access. However, it’s…
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…
PublishPress Authors is the best plugin for adding many authors to one WordPress post. You can create multiple authors, co-authors and guest authors. There’s new update available for both the Free and Pro versions. Authors 3.6.0 has a mix of new features and bug-fixes. You can now use the “Quick Edit” feature to select authors….
Say hello to “PublishPress Authors“, the newest plugin in the PublishPress family. By default, WordPress only allows you to add one author to each post. Multiple Authors is a plugin that allows you to add as many authors as you want. This is really useful for teams who work together on content.