Steve Burge

4 Sept

We’re about to ship a simple, useful thing I don't think has ever been done in WordPress before. With PublishPress Revisions, you can already schedule post revisions for any future date. You edit a published post, pick a time, and the updates go live automatically.

4 Sept

What’s new? You will be able manage every single scheduled update from one unified view. A single dashboard to see all upcoming content changes across your entire site. Simple ✅ Helpful ✅

2 Sept

We’re killing off some of our smaller WordPress brands ☠️ Not the products: just the standalone brands. Moving forward, they are being absorbed into PublishPress. . Running multiple micro-brands in 2026 is an operational trap for us.

2 Sept

The constant overhead of managing separate releases, dev systems, social channels, content schedules, and brand identities is really distracting. Plus, putting these tools in front of PublishPress's existing audience gives them a much stronger path to growth.

logtivity.ioTwo Big Changes to Logtivity - LogtivityHey, and thanks for using Logtivity. I apologize for not sending more updates about Logtivity in recent months. Mostly, we’ve been working on boring but important stuff. The biggest project was moving...

2 Sept

WordPress is a mature ecosystem and focus wins. We’d rather make a couple of big bets than several small ones. Here's the first of these announcements. Our activity log platform will become part of PublishPress: logtivity.io/whats-new-se...

31 Aug

A customer just gave us some blunt feedback on PublishPress: "You have too many plugins. You need to do a better job guiding users through all these options." She didn't just point out the flaw. She mocked up an entire onboarding workflow for us.

31 Aug

We already had a basic version in place. But her design? Far better. It was packed with great ideas born directly from her day-to-day work. As software developers, I think we just need to be humble and say, "You're right. You're closer to the problem than we are. Thank you."

31 Aug

As software developers, we've got limited vision. Our customers know more about our products than we do. I believe this 1000%. They know exactly when, where, and how our products fall short in the real world.

28 Aug

I got curious about what was possible with the new Visual Revisions feature in WordPress. Why not have a Wikipedia-style area showing all the changes to a post? It could be very useful for any WordPress publishers who wants to build audience trust.

28 Aug

I've attached screenshots from a working version of this. If people see any value, we can ship this in the next version of PublishPress Revisions plugin. This really would not have been possible with the old code-formatted revisions before WordPress 7.0.

wpfounders.comAnna Hurko of Crocoblock, Sharing Her StoryAnna Hurko of Crocoblock, shares insights into her life and offers valuable business advice.

Kudos to @ahsanparwez.bsky.social and Mustaasam Saleem Since 2020 they've run @wpfounders.com and have collected over 250 stories from WordPress business founders. A lot of them are fascinating. Some great stories 👇 The co-founder of Crocoblock: Anna Hurko wpfounders.com/wordpress-pl...

The co-founder of weDevs: Nizam Uddin wpfounders.com/wordpress-pl...

wpfounders.comNizam Uddin of weDevs Sharing His Success StoryNizam Uddin of weDevs, shares insights into his life and offers valuable business advice.

wpfounders.comSteve Burge of PublishPress Sharing his Success Story - WPfoundersSteve Burge of PublishPress shares insights into his life and offers valuable business advice.

Oh, and now me too. Here's my WordPress story to add to WPFounders: wpfounders.com/wordpress-pl...

wpfounders.comAnna Hurko of Crocoblock, Sharing Her StoryAnna Hurko of Crocoblock, shares insights into her life and offers valuable business advice.

wpfounders.comAmir Helzer of WPML Sharing His Success StoryAmir Helzer, the Founder of WPML, a WordPress Multilingual plugin, talked about his life, shared experiences, & advice to young entrepreneurs.

The founder of WPML: Amir Hezel wpfounders.com/wordpress-pl...

26 Aug

We love to support publishers, particularly in the WordPress ecosystem. But this particular publishing niche can go and jump into the sea

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20 Aug

This looks like a great idea from Adam Silverstein: automatically test new WordPress releases against the 100 plugins. The testing would check that the new version of WordPress can still boot with those plugins active: core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65920

27 June

WordPress 6.9 shipped with a very cool feature: Notes. You can leave Google Docs-style comments directly on your posts. The catch? It's really hard to find. None of the publishers we work with have discovered it yet. I'd love to change that ...

27 June

Here are a couple of ideas I've been thinking through: 1. A dedicated "Notes" screen. One single place to see all commenting activity across your site 2. Always-visible Notes icons in the editing toolbar. Any ideas on how to improve Notes? I'd love to hear your them 👇

26 June

We’ve always tried to avoid releasing WordPress plugin updates on Fridays, just in case something needs fixing over the weekend. With the new 24-hour pause before updates appear in the official plugin repo, it probably makes sense to avoid Thursday releases too.

26 June

I think is a good move by the WordPress team, but it does have some knock-on effects that we have to think about as developers. Perhaps we release on Sunday morning, ready for work the next week? 🤪

19 June

Image editing is getting much better in WordPress. Check out the latest version of the Gutenberg plugin. You'll find a new editing window with rotate, flip, zoom, aspect ration and other tools. This new version is much easier to use than the current editing tools.

19 June

Draft or Published. Those are basically the two choices you get for WordPress posts. Draft (unpublished) or Published? It's either one of the other. Have you ever wanted to label a WordPress post something else? Perhaps “In Progress”, "Assigned", “Needs Work”, or “Rejected”?

19 June

The PublishPress Statuses plugin can help. You can create additional statuses. You can also control which users can move posts to each status. Here's some screenshots showing a new "Assigned" status:

22 May

Austin Ginder has uncovered some of the biggest hacks in the WordPress ecosystem. Some of them were really, really sneaky. Austin came on the PublishPress podcast and told the story of how one hacker took over a plugin and tricked users into installing his own secret updates.

20 May

My wife always has good ideas. I'm the code monkey that implements them 😆 🐒 This week, she recommended that I add more promos to our PublishPress blog posts. Fortunately, that's really easy with the block editor. You can use the Auto-Insert Blocks feature in the PublishPress Blocks plugin:

publishpress.comHow to Use Auto Insert Blocks - PublishPressThe Auto Insert Blocks feature is available in the PublishPress Blocks plugin. This feature allows you to automatically insert reusable blocks into posts. You can choose to insert your blocks accordin...

20 May

- Create a reusable block with the promo. - Choose to automatically add that block anywhere in your posts. I choose "End of post". Good ideas 💡 Done ✅ publishpress.com/knowledge-ba...

20 May

Austin Ginder is on a heater 🔥 He's using AI to uncover security issues in WordPress plugins that have been hidden for years. On the PublishPress podcast, he revealed that a big number of the high-profile issues may be the work of one hacker, or group of hackers.

19 May

👀 You have the power to control who views your WordPress content 👀 "This page is only for logged in users" "This event is only for Accounting Department users" "This post is only for John and Jane" Enable ✅ or block ❌ viewing access

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11 May

I'm going to be on This Week in WordPress in about 30 minutes, with @nathanwrigley.com. There should be a lot to talk about. I can't remember ever seeing such a busy few days in the WordPress community: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjU4...

1 May

I've seen big publishers with "lite" or "text-only" versions of their WordPress sites. Amber Hinds is a WordPress accessibility expert. On the PublishPress podcast, I asked Amber if these versions are a good idea. Are "text-only" versions more accessible? Are they helpful for some users?

youtube.comWhat Publishers Need to Know About Web AccessibilityYouTube video by PublishPress

1 May

Check out the interview with Amber here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUb0... Find more about Amber's work at equalizedigital.com

30 Apr

Why does it matter what the reading level of your content is? Amber Hinds is an accessibility expert and says we should aim to write below an 9th grade level. A 9th grade level? 🤯 Yes, there's several great reasons to write simply:

29 Apr

I've seen many publishers adding audio playback to their articles. You can get WordPress plugins to read posts for your visitors. Amber Hinds is an accessibility expert. I asked her if these audio versions are helpful for people for disabilities. Her answer surprised me ...

youtube.comWhat Publishers Need to Know About Web AccessibilityYouTube video by PublishPress

29 Apr

Check out the whole interview with Amber here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUb0... Find Amber's work at equalizedigital.com

24 Apr

Chris Ward has enjoyed a career at the intersection of publishing and advertising. In this two minute clip, Chris describes the mind-blowing changes he's seen. In the early days, he was selling 728x90 banners on the homepage. Now we're in the era of cellphones listening to our conversations:

Revisions are becoming a first class feature in WordPress. Previously Revisions were hidden away behind a tiny link in the sidebar. Install the new version of the Gutenberg plugin and you'll now see a "Revisions" tab in the sidebar. This shows the most recent revisions:

Plus, you can now see this in the Site Editor too, so you can rollback to previous versions of your site design. (To enable this, go to Gutenberg > Experiments > Editor Inspector: Use DataForm)

Fast sites are profitable sites. Christopher Ward runs The Publisher Desk which helps publishers increase their advertising revenue. All Chris' work is on WordPress. It gives you complete control over the speed of your site. You can build sites with excellent Core Web Vitals results.

publisherdesk.comThe Publisher DeskReal Stories, Real Growth Here’s how we’ve helped publishers like Empire Sports Media stand out in a crowded sports media landscape […]

Check out Chris' agency here: www.publisherdesk.com Watch the whole discussion: youtu.be/m2SQB8G8qjI

20 Apr

Big improvements to the Media Library are underway for WordPress 7.1. There was a flurry of activity around media issues on the Gutenberg Github repo over the last few days. Some short term goals: - HEIC image support - Ultra HDR support - More stable uploading for large files

github.comPhase 3: Collaboration > Media Library · Issue #55238 · WordPress/gutenbergTasks that are a part of the Phase 3 Media Library work described here. Design Scope i1 — parity for the existing media library Use DataViews to implement a Media screen. With fields including: Med...

20 Apr

Longer term, the plan is build use DataViews to redesign the Media screen. And of course, there's a lot of AI-related ideas floating around. Here's a key Github issue to follow what's happening: github.com/WordPress/gu...

17 Apr

Will we soon be using AI tools to manage our WooCommerce stores? Yes, says @briancoords.com, who is a Developer Advocate for WooCommerce. There are AI tools available that allow you to use a chatbot to create products, analyze data, and do much more with WooCommerce.

youtu.beAI is Now a Contributor to WooCommerce. What Comes Next?YouTube video by PublishPress

17 Apr

Find out more about Brian's views on the latest changes in WooCommerce: youtu.be/GXdBeDkN_YY More about WooCommerce MCP: woocommerce.com/posts/woocom...

It looks like the next step for real-time collaboration in WordPress is underway. There's a new experimental feature plugin called "Presence API". You'll be able to see what other people are doing in your WordPress site: github.com/WordPress/pr...

Will we soon see AI agents making purchases on our WooCommerce stores? @briancoords.com says that Woo is actively working on that right now with Stripe and Google

youtube.comAI is Now a Contributor to WooCommerce. What Comes Next?YouTube video by PublishPress

Watch the whole interview with Brian: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXdB... Check out more on this via the Woo blog: woocommerce.com/posts/stripe-agentic-commerce-suite-for-woocommerce/

- Lightbox - Modal - Overlay - Pop-up - Dialog It seems like there's multiple ways to say the same thing, but none of them really make sense for normal people. Our plugin is literally called "MetaSlider Lightbox" but my wife had to ask me what a lightbox is 🤔

13 Apr

AI is now a contributor to the WooCommerce core 🤯 What does it mean that Copilot and Claude are now contributing to the WooCommerce codebase? I asked @briancoords.com: