Sometimes the simplest questions can lead you down the biggest rabbit holes.
A few weeks ago, I asked our team, “What is the best way to translate WordPress plugins?“
We need an answer because we've been growing quickly here at PublishPress. More users are asking if our plugins are available in different languages.
Some of the PublishPress plugins have existed for more than 10 years. For example, the PublishPress Revisions plugin was launched back in 2009!
In contrast, the PublishPress Authors plugin is very new. It only launched on WordPress.org in 2020.
PublishPress Authors is a plugin that we've been slowly improving for a couple of years now.
PublishPress Authors allows you to add multiple authors to one post. You can also have guest authors who don't need a WordPress account.
Here at PublishPress, we’re very focused on the publishing experience in WordPress.
In recent weeks, there's been very interesting news for WordPress publishers with the launch of 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:
PublishPress 1.20.8 is available now, along with updates for two PublishPress add-ons. PublishPress is the ideal plugin if you want to schedule content in WordPress.
The most notable new feature is an improvement to shortcodes in PublishPress notifications. You can now include post metadata inside your notifications,
Just over two months ago, we acquired the Press Permit plugins. Just importantly, Kevin (the original developer of the plugins) came to work with us.
Two plugins have already moved here to PublishPress: Revisionary and Capability Manager Enhanced.
The next step is to move the remaining Press Permit plugins over here to PublishPress.com.
Update: this plugin is now called “PublishPress Capabilities”.
I'm delighted to say that the Capability Manager Enhanced plugin is now part of the PublishPress family.
This is one of the most popular Permissions plugins on WordPress.org, with over 70,000 active installs.
Update: In October 2019, Revisionary was rebranded to PublishPress Revisions.
One week ago, we announced the acquisition of over a dozen plugins.
That's a lot of plugins, and over the next few months we'll be moving all of them here to PublishPress.com.
One of the new plugins is Revisionary, the best choice for managing, scheduling and moderating WordPress revisions. Here's what Revisionary allows you to do:
We’re delighted to announce that PublishPress has acquired Press Permit.
We have been talking about working together since early 2018. Yes, the companies do have very similar names, but there's more to it than that!
Both Press Permit and PublishPress are known for developing WordPress plugins that focus on publishing.
WordPress is no longer a simple blogging platform it once was. Out of the box, it can be molded into a sophisticated content management system that handles complicated back-end requirements. However, your site may have requirements, that can't be easily met with just the WordPress core.
The PublishPress plugin meets one of such requirements. It enables teams to use WordPress as a collaborative publishing platform. It features a calendar for planning content creation, a content manager, and notifications to keep members of the team informed of the publishing workflow updates.