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PublishPress 2021 Review and Thank You

Written by Steve Burge on January 26, 2022.

In 2018, we launched PublishPress.com as a side-project. In 2019, PublishPress was growing quickly and we began to see it as a project with real potential. So at the end of that year, we started to write year-end reviews. You can read previous reviews for 2019 and 2020.

These reviews are for our customers. Thank you for all your investment in our work. I hope the reviews help you get a better understanding of our vision for these plugins.
The reviews are for business owners. We try to be honest about the ups-and-downs in the hope that you can avoid some of the mistakes we've made!
And finally, the reviews are for us. We pour many hours of our lives into building these plugins. It's easy to forget key incidents as you do the daily work. And as the years go by, it's great to look back on these reviews and remember the rollercoaster ride.

Here's our recap of key events for PublishPress in 2021.

Post Expirator is Now Called PublishPress Future

Written by Steve Burge on November 25, 2021.

The Post Expirator plugin allows you to choose an “expire” date for WordPress posts. The plugin has over 100,000 users and has been working reliably for years.

We're delighted to say that Post Expirator is now part of PublishPress and it has new name: “PublishPress Future”.

The PublishPress Series Plugin is Available

Written by Steve Burge on September 2, 2021.

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, teachers, comic artists, or anyone who writes multiple posts on the same topic.

The plugin aligns perfectly with our goal at PublishPress, which is to help WordPress publishers succeed.

PublishPress Series Free is available on WordPress.org.
PublishPress Series Pro is available here for PublishPress members.

The plugin now has its own penguin banner on the WordPress plugin repository:

We’ve Adopted the Organize Series Plugin

Written by Steve Burge on July 27, 2021.

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 our goal at PublishPress which is to help WordPress publishers succeed. It's the ninth plugin available here at PublishPress.

The Organize Series plugin is free to download at WordPress.org, and there are also seven extensions that provide extra features.

The Post Expirator Plugin is Joining PublishPress

Written by Steve Burge on May 6, 2021.

The Post Expirator plugin allows you to choose an “expire” date for WordPress posts.

When your post is automatically unpublished, you can delete the post, change the status, or update the post categories. The plugin has over 100,000 users and has been working reliably for years.

We're delighted to say that Post Expirator is now part of PublishPress.

PublishPress 2020: The Year Everything Doubled

Written by Steve Burge on January 8, 2021.

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 feel like I should be adding many of your names here also.

The “Advanced Gutenberg” Plugin is Now “PublishPress Blocks”

Written by Steve Burge on December 16, 2020.

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:

Canada’s New Journalism Runs on WordPress

Written by Steve Burge on December 16, 2020.

We often hear about old newspaper companies that are struggling. But there's a good chance that 2020 was a turning point for successful new journalists. If you look carefully, we're seeing many fresh, independent media projects.

The business model for these new projects is different. They are ditching corporate ownership in favor of a model that’s innovative, diverse, making money and overwhelmingly using WordPress.

Featured WordPress Publisher: Defector

Written by Steve Burge on September 29, 2020.

Welcome to another post in our series that features exciting WordPress publishers. We're not always looking for household brand names. We're also searching for publishers who are building new, brave and innovative platforms.

This week's WordPress site is a new site with a long history. Defector.com is a sports and media blog that is owned and operated by the former staff of Deadspin.com.

3 Expensive Content Mistakes Entrepreneurs Must Avoid

Written by Steve Burge on August 26, 2020.

Content marketing has been on the rise for the last 10 years and for good reason. It helps businesses establish their authority, reach more people and build their audiences, so they can sell more of their products or services.

It’s an effective way to grow your business, whether that’s through articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, or social media… whatever your content style is.

As a content creator, you already know that one of the keys to success with publishing is being consistent.

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