Here at PublishPress, we focus on helping publishers succeed with WordPress. Many of those publishers spend much time to find and showcase awesome authors for their content. However, we’ve regularly heard from publishers who have run into a problem: WordPress authors don’t appear in search results. This makes it hard to find content written by…
Here’s an interesting question from a PublishPress user: “I want to allow the Author role to edit published posts (theirs or others) and make those changes live without approval. But I don’t want those users to create new posts themselves.“ Yes, this is possible using the PublishPress Capabilities plugin.
We’re starting a major set of improvements to the PublishPress Authors plugin. The goal of these upgrades is to add some key new features: More customizable author pages. The ability to display all of your authors on one screen. Better support for the WordPress REST API. More design and layout options for profiles. Categories for…
This week, we talked with a PublishPress customer who has a busy site with many posts from different authors. They wanted to create an “inbox” effect, where the WordPress “Posts” screen is like a personal email inbox for each author. In the image below, you can see posts from multiple different authors. This can be…
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.
By default, WooCommerce products don’t show the default “Authors” feature in WordPress. The WooCommerce developers made this choice for a good reason. Posts, Pages and other content normally need an “author”. However, eCommerce products might have a “Vendor” or “Manufacturer”, but not often an “author”.
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,…
A few weeks ago, we published a guide showing how to send reminders to authors before their content was published. One PublishPress user (thanks Andy McIlwain!) told us about their interesting twist on this technique.
PublishPress is based on another WordPress plugin called Edit Flow. Edit Flow was a wonderful plugin, but had some noticeable restrictions. One key limitation was that it only supported Posts.
Are you forgetful? I certainly am. I need reminders and prompts to help keep me organized. So, for everyone who need some extra organization, we built the Reminders feature in PublishPress Pro. Reminders can automatically send notifications before you publish content. Here are some examples of how you can use Reminders: