We spend a lot of time working on our content. We spend hours making sure our posts are as good as possible. We stress over the words, grammar,and punctuation. So naturally we’re worried about losing all that hard work. What happens if my browser crashes? What happens if someone edits my post and makes a…
Revisions are one of my very favorite WordPress features. When you write in WordPress, your changes will be automatically saved as “Revisions”. You can use them easily restore any previous version of your content. And if you want to compare your current version of a post to an old version, WordPress gives you an easy…
Several of our PublishPress plugins allow you to control what users can do on your WordPress site. These plugins allow you to change user permissions via the WordPress admin area. However, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes. PublishPress customers often have questions from users about WordPress permissions and where they are stored in…
If you write blog posts in your browser, you have probably had the gut-wrenching experience of losing content. Maybe your browser crashed. Perhaps your internet connection dropped. But when you went back to your post, your content was missing. Ouch! Fortunately, autosaves are a WordPress feature that can help you avoid losing your content.
Many of us spend a lot of time working on our content. We spend hours making sure the spelling, grammar, punctuation are as good as possible. So we are worried about losing content. What happens if my browser crashes? What happens if someone edits my post and makes a mistake? Fortunately, WordPress has the solution:…
The Last Modified Date is a key feature on many websites. This can be a helpful feature if you want people to know when the post was updated. I’ve seen this used for news articles, documentation, and even legal and technical information. The Last Modified Date does not appear by default on most WordPress sites….
PublishPress Revisions has a new feature called “Revision Archive”. This is one place to find all the revisions for content on your site. Normally it’s really difficult to view revisions in WordPress. The only way to access them is via a small link inside each individual post. “Revision Archive” solves this problem by displaying all…
One of the things I love about WordPress is that the project has a clearly-stated philosophy. One of the principles is to design for 80% of users and leave plugins to fill in the more advanced features. This is happening with the Gutenberg block editor. Many developers are adding extra features on top of the…
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…
We develop a plugin called PublishPress Revisions that allows you to submit, approve and schedule changes to your WordPress content. Revisions are a wonderful feature in WordPress and have saved me many hours of headaches. WordPress automatically saves a revision for your content every 60 seconds using the autosave feature. So whenever I make a…