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,…
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…
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 When your post is automatically unpublished, you can delete the post, change the status, or update the post categories.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…
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…
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:
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…
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…
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,…
Update: this plugin is now called “PublishPress Blocks”. In February this year, I received an email from the team at JoomUnited. We’ve crossed paths several times over the last decade or more. This time, they had an offer: “Would you be interested in taking over the Advanced Gutenberg plugin?” Advanced Gutenberg is a plugin that…
Here at PublishPress, we’re very focused on the publishing experience in WordPress. One of the key players in the WordPress publishing ecosystem is Newspack. Newspack is a project from Automattic (the owners of WordPress.com, but not WordPress.org) that aims to help small newspapers run their sites on WordPress. Here’s the official description of Newspack: