A few months ago, I was talking with a PublishPress customer. They use our plugins, but also rely on an external service to plan their content. That’s not unusual. We’ve heard from WordPress people who use Google Docs, ClickUp, Notion, and other tools. In most cases, the feedback was that the WordPress interface was too…
Welcome to the fifth annual review from PublishPress. You can read our previous reviews for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. We write these annual reviews for you, 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. We…
We’re excited to share some cool news about our most popular plugin, PublishPress Capabilities. This helpful tool gives you super-detailed control over who can do what on your WordPress site. PublishPress Capabilities now shows you the capabilities for many free and commercial plugins, from Yoast and Rank Math to Learn Dash and Gravity Forms.
One of our most popular recent posts on this blog explained how to rearrange metaboxes in the Gutenberg editor. This post is useful because the system for moving metaboxes has some confusing points. Yes, you can move some metaboxes up and down, but the default boxes can not be moved. The image below highlights the…
One PublishPress user asked us if it’s possible to rearrange metaboxes in Gutenberg. This user has installed the PublishPress Checklists plugin and wanted the checklist area to be at the top of sidebar when writing posts. This image show the move they wanted:
The PublishPress Authors plugin can now provide schema data to help search engines find your author information. This is possible if you’re using the Yoast SEO or Rank Math SEO plugins. If you have the PublishPress Authors plugin installed, plus either Yoast or Rank Math, the schema data will be available automatically. No configuration is…
Back in June, we released “Editor Features” in the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. This allowed you to hide almost any feature on the post editing screen. Why do I say “almost”? Because the first release of Editor Features could not hide metaboxes. I’m happy to say that you can now use PublishPress Capabilities to hide metaboxes….
A WordPress website always starts by looking very clean. But after you choose a theme and install a lot of plugins, the user interface quickly becomes very crowded. In other guides, we’ve shown you how to hide WordPress admin menus, hide the admin toolbar, and hide dashboard widgets. In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to…
As everyone waited to find out the winners in last week’s elections for US president and Congress, one winner was immediately obvious: WordPress. Earlier in the election cycle, we saw the PublishPress plugin used by more than one presidential candidate. Even so, it was still surprising to see WordPress used in almost every 2020 race,…
Here at PublishPress, we’re very focused on the publishing experience in WordPress. We love to see large organizations use WordPress to publish their content. Across the USA, state governments are among the largest and most high-profile organizations. So I decided to find out which states rely on WordPress to publish their most important updates. I…