We have PublishPress customers who sometimes want to publish posts with no author attached. There are many reasons why they want anonymous blog posts. Sometimes the post is an official statement from the company and doesn't have a single author. Sometime the post is controversial and the safe choice is not to attach a person's...| PublishPress
When you log in to a WordPress site, you will see boxes full of information. These are called “Dashboard Widgets”. You will probably see a “Welcome to WordPress!” widget with lots of useful links. There's also a “WordPress Events and News” widget with official updates. There's an “At a Glance” widget so you can quickly...| PublishPress
We received an interesting question this week from a PublishPress user. One of our customers wanted to remove elements from the “Screen Options” dropdown panel in WordPress. The “Screen Options” tab is available in most areas of the WordPress admin area. This image below shows an example from the “Pages” screen. In this article, we...| PublishPress
This week, a PublishPress user asked us if it is possible to customize the permissions for a single WordPress user. The answer is “yes”, and in this guide I'll show you two ways to do that. Option #1. Create a New Role Normally, user roles are designed for multiple users, but there is nothing to...| PublishPress
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...| PublishPress
WordPress sites display an admin toolbar for all logged-in users. We have 3 options if you want to hide this toolbar for users on your site.| PublishPress
Some PublishPress users have written to us and asked if it's possible to control who can access Elementor templates. Yes, you can do this.| PublishPress
The Gutenberg team released version 17.0 last week and it has the first version of collaborative editing for WordPress users.| PublishPress
We had a question from a PublishPress user who wanted to create a “Media Manager” user role. Their goal was to restrict the users in this role so they could only access the “Media” area of the WordPress admin. The users would have full rights to modify any file in the media library. A “Media...| PublishPress
Luke Fretwell is one of the most creative and pioneering people I've met in open source. He's enjoyed a 25 year career that has covered multiple projects, collaborations, and businesses. The through-line for all Luke's projects has been making government better through technology. Luke created GovPress, a very popular WordPress theme focused for governments. He...| PublishPress
WordPress is very restrictive when it comes to deleting files from your site's Media Library. By default, only users in the “Administrator” role are able to delete images and files in WordPress. Users in the Subscriber, Contributor, Author and Editor roles are not allowed to delete. However, you may want to give the “Delete” button...| PublishPress
Carol Cavaleiro lives in Brazil and supports journalists across North and South America through her work at Indiegraf. She joined the PublishPress podcast.| PublishPress
Have you ever been in the situation where you need to add Categories or Tags to a WordPress post after a certain length of time. We've talked with several PublishPress users in this situation. Here are some common requests: Add the tag "Archive" to a post after 90 days. Add…| PublishPress
The Elementor plugin is a very good page-builder for WordPress sites. This guide shows how to allow users access to only one Elementor post.| PublishPress
Yes, it is possible to control who can add featured images to WordPress content. This tutorial will show you how it's done.| PublishPress
Do you write posts for clients and need get them approved by those clients? This is possible in WordPress with the PublishPress plugins.| PublishPress
WordPress 5 is now available. Version 5 brings the new Gutenberg editor to WordPress. If you’re unfamiliar with the new editor, the official launch post is a good place to start. The Gutenberg editor is really cool and it is the future of WordPress. But, Gutenberg is a big change from the…| PublishPress
PublishPress Capabilities helps you improve up the WordPress admin area. This plugin provides everything you need for a clean dashboard and post editing screens.| PublishPress
The PublishPress team write about WordPress and publishing. We have news, tutorials, reviews and guides to help you succeed as a publisher.| PublishPress
With the PublishPress Future plugin, you can update your content using custom workflows. You can create workflows to automatically unpublish, delete, change metadata, change post details, send emails, and much more. PublishPress Future 4.7 is here and it makes the plugin insanely more powerful. In this version, you can add…| PublishPress
PublishPress Capabilities has support for WPML. You can create user roles that are allowed to access specific areas of the WPML plugin.| PublishPress
User Switching in WordPress and Testing User Accounts| PublishPress
User Switching in WordPress and Testing User Accounts| PublishPress
We rely heavily on the User Switching plugin. This allows us to browse our site and see exactly what the user sees. User Switching is enormously helpful when we're solving support questions.| PublishPress
Unless you want to write code, there are limited options for re-ordering Gutenberg metaboxes. You can rearrange the default metaboxes.| PublishPress
Jacob Donnelly is the founder of A Media Operator (AMO) Over the last five year, he's grown AMO from a newsletter to a fully-fledged media organization. Soon after launching, Jacob moved from Substack to WordPress with the goal of owning his platform and audience. Jacob and AMO have covered huge…| PublishPress
Tyler Channel runs PaywallProject which tries to keep small newspapers in business. He offers a more affordable alternative to Newspack.| PublishPress
This guide shows how to move metaboxes from the sidebar of WordPress posts. You can move the metaboxes under the main content area.| PublishPress
If you want approve changes to published content, then PublishPress Revisions is the right tool for you.| PublishPress
pay_for_order is a capability that allows WooCommerce users to login as the customers and complete payments.| PublishPress
This guide show you how to allow a WordPress user to view WooCommerce orders but not edit orders.| PublishPress
What is the difference between "Pending Review" and "Draft" in WordPress? We explain and show why this really matters for users who do not have many permissions on your site.| PublishPress
There is a user option in WordPress called "No role for this site". This guide explains how this user setting works and how it impacts users.| PublishPress
Private is one of eight post statuses in WordPress. Private posts are for content that you only want high-level users to see.| PublishPress
If you're looking for publishing plugins for WordPress ... you're in the right place.| PublishPress
We analyzed the main sites for all major branches of the US federal government and found that WordPress is used for several very famous websites. We showcase them in this blog post.| PublishPress