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When your post is automatically unpublished, you can delete the post, change the status, or update the post categories.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.
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 default blocks.
Inside the PublishPress Blocks plugin, the Advanced Table block is based on the default Table block in Gutenberg.
The Gutenberg team have done the hard work. We're standing on their shoulders.
If you want to show data inside tables in WordPress, both of these blocks are a great choice.
The Advanced Table Block has functionality that the extra 20% of WordPress users may find helpful. If you are a WordPress power user, you'll want to check out these features, including colors, border settings, cell merging, padding, and text alignment.
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: Revisions.
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 the database. This post is an introduction to those database tables.
One thing to note: although most people refer to “user permissions” or perhaps “user access”, WordPress uses the word “capabilities”.
The Last Modified Date is a useful WordPress feature that shows when content was last changed.
This can be helpful 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. It can also be helpful if you use a content schedule to plan your WordPress content.
The Last Modified Date does not appear by default on most WordPress sites. You won't see it in the WordPress admin area, or on the frontend.
I'm going to show you how to enable this feature on your site.
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 writing mistake in WordPress, I know there's always a revision available so I can fix things.
However, if you have a busy site, and WordPress is constantly saving revisions, you will soon end up with a LOT of revisions. These can slow down your site by filling up your database with unnecessary data. This post explains what data is stored by WordPress revisions.
We develop the PublishPress Revisions plugin that allows you to submit, moderate, approve, and schedule revisions.
This plugin is built on top of the core revisions feature in WordPress.
Our Revisions Pro plugin is able to capture all of the data that has changed in your WordPress posts. However, that is not true of the normal revisions feature. People often tell us that their revisions are missing data.
Revisions is one the most useful features in WordPress. Every time you update your content, WordPress makes a change.
However, the idea may be great, the reality sometimes falls short. You may find that some content and fields do not have their data stored in your site's revisions.
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.
Are you nervous about making changes to content that's live on your site?
Then I have good news. It is possible to copy any post that's live on your site and work on it safely – in your own little sandbox.
With the PublishPress Revisions plugin, you can work on updates to any existing post. You can make a copy of a post, edit it as many times as you like, and then replace the original post.
This is a big improvement on the default WordPress options. Using basic WordPress, you must either edit the post while it's live on your site, or create a whole new post and copy-paste the content.