In this episode of the PublishPress podcast we welcome Birgit Pauli-Haack, a developer advocate for Automattic. She also publishes the Gutenberg Times which is the best place to keep up with everything that’s happening with the block editor. We discuss the recent release of WordPress 6.9, its new features, and the future of WordPress development…
Alex Denning has been in the WordPress and SEO communities for years. But for the last few years, he’s been seeing those topics through on AI lens. Alex now runs the Ellipsis agency and helps his clients to get recommended by AI chats. Alex’s life was changed when GPT-3 launched, because it radically changed the…
Do you need to prevent visitors from accessing some of your site’s content? With the “Teaser” feature, you can customize what happens when visitors try to view your restricted content. This is really helpful for membership websites, or anyone who wants visitors to register to access content. The screenshot below shows how this feature works….
Reading time is a key feature on many news websites. You’ll often see this data displayed on website homepages, and on individual stories. This feature tells visitors how long it will take to finish reading each article. WordPress may soon offer a “Time to Read” block so you can add this feature to your sites….
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Rodolfo Melogli shares his journey from the early days of WooCommerce to the creation of his new Checkout Summit conference. This new WooCommerce conference will be in Sicily in April 2026. If you work with WooCommerce, you should be there. This is a conference we’ve been missing in…
Here at PublishPress, we’re able to support almost any other WordPress plugin. However, there is one popular plugin called bbPress that doesn’t always work smoothly with our code, or other user management plugins. bbPress has over 300,000 users and is the commonly used discussion board in WordPress. I’m going to give you a guide on…
Akshat Choudhary is the founder of WP Remote, which is an awesome and successful backup service for WordPress sites. But you won’t hear him boasting about that. Akshat doesn’t talk much. He’s a self-professed shy guy. He’s not someone you’ll always be hearing from on YouTube, social media, podcasts. Instead, Akshat is an engineer who…
We just released something really cool for the WordPress block editor. You can just create your own styles for any block. For example, I want some blocks with the purple and yellow colors of the PublishPress band. That’s super-easy. Check out this screenshot below. In the right menu, I can pick from dozens of different…
Our guest in this episode of the PublishPress podcast is Karim Marucchi from the Crowd Favorite agency and the FAIR project. With Karim’s help, we’re going to try and tell two stories in this episode. The first story is Karim’s life working with some of the biggest agencies in the world, and selling projects to some of the…
PublishPress Series is the WordPress plugin that allows you to organize posts into issues or series. This is ideal for magazines, newspapers, short-story writers, teachers, comic artists, or anyone who writes multiple posts on the same topic. Here are some ways to use the plugin:
