Welcome to the first in a regular series where we focus on the very best publishers using WordPress. We’re not always looking for household brand names. We’re also searching for publishers who are building new, brave and innovative platforms. That perfectly describes TheNarwhal.ca. They are a team of investigative journalists who report environmental news and…
Does it matter how many words you write on a topic? Some books are famously short. “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” barely reaches 60 pages, but it has inspired movies and TV shows for decades. Some books are famously long. “Moby Dick” is over 700 pages, but it has also been…
PublishPress Checklists is the plugin if you want to control the quality of your WordPress content. You can define tasks that authors must complete before content is published. These tasks are things like writing a minimum number of words, or adding a featured image.
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. One of the key players in the WordPress publishing ecosystem is 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.