If you have a busy site with lots of content, it can be difficult to keep it organized. Normally, WordPress sites use Tags and Categories to organize content. However, if you’re publishing 10, 100 or even 1,000’s of posts every day, it can be hard to find and add the correct Tags and Categories. One…
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…
We have seen writers and publishers use WordPress to share their thoughts on 10,000’s of topics. WordPress is a great platform to talk about everything from science and tech to intimate, personal thoughts. But all of us want to be heard. We write so that we have a voice. We want people to stay on…
Here at PublishPress, we create a lot of content, between our blog posts and documentation articles. We wanted to organize all of that content more effectively, so that it was easier to find. For example, if you use Contact Form 7, it would be ideal if you could find all our Contact Form 7 content…
Categories and Tags are the main ways you can organize WordPress content. However, on a normal WordPress site, both Categories and Tags are only available for Posts. This means that you can’t organize your Pages, unless you use the Parent/Child setup. You also can’t perform some useful tasks with PublishPress plugins. For example, you could…
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user this week: I am trying to allow a some user role to choose an existing Tag, but not allow them to create new Tags. This was simple enough to do with Categories, but I cannot figure it out for Tags. This was a great question that…
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,…
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user this week: “Is there any way to automatically add a specific tag if the user is in a certain role?“ For example, Authors will always get “Tag A” added and Editors will always get “Tag B” added. Yes, this is possible with a little code. Once…
Tags and Categories are the two ways you can categorize your WordPress content. There’s often a debate about the right way to use Tags and Categories in order to optimize your sites for search engines. Let’s take a look at advice on how to use Tags and Categories …