Tags, Categories, and other taxonomies are the best way to organize WordPress content. With one click, you can create a Tag or Category that can be used across all the posts on your site. If you have a large number of Tags and Categories, you may have noticed that some of the terms are duplicated….
I’m delighted to say that the MetaSlider plugin is now part of PublishPress. The PublishPress team’s mission is to help WordPress publishers succeed. We believe that maintaining and improving the MetaSlider plugin will enable us to help more publishers. MetaSlider is one of the most popular slideshow plugins for WordPress, with over 700,000 installs and…
If you have a busy site with lots of content, it can be difficult to keep it organized. Normally, WordPress sites use Tags and Categories to organize content. However, if you’re publishing 10, 100 or even 1,000’s of posts every day, it can be hard to find and add the correct Tags and Categories. One…
A WordPress website always starts by looking very clean. But after you choose a theme and install a lot of plugins, the user interface quickly becomes very crowded. In other guides, we’ve shown you how to hide WordPress admin menus, hide the admin toolbar, and hide dashboard widgets. In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to…
We have seen writers and publishers use WordPress to share their thoughts on 10,000’s of topics. WordPress is a great platform to talk about everything from science and tech to intimate, personal thoughts. But all of us want to be heard. We write so that we have a voice. We want people to stay on…
Here at PublishPress, we create a lot of content, between our blog posts and documentation articles. We wanted to organize all of that content more effectively, so that it was easier to find. For example, if you use Contact Form 7, it would be ideal if you could find all our Contact Form 7 content…
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…
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user this week: I am trying to allow a some user role to choose an existing Tag, but not allow them to create new Tags. This was simple enough to do with Categories, but I cannot figure it out for Tags. This was a great question that…
This week, one PublishPress customer was in a situation where they needed to create Tags based on the Authors of a post. The goal was that when someone writes a post, their name was automatically added as a Tag. Once this was done, the customer could use the Tags to trigger other functionality. For example,…
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user this week: “Is there any way to automatically add a specific tag if the user is in a certain role?“ For example, Authors will always get “Tag A” added and Editors will always get “Tag B” added. Yes, this is possible with a little code. Once…