This version contains two key feature requests:

1. Word Count – You will now see the word count of the submission, both on the submission summary screen and on the submission details screen.
2. More Control over Created User Account – If a submission accepted for publication is from an author not already in your WordPress database, you will be prompted to enter the desired username for the author.  The HeyPublisher plugin will pre-populate the input field with the writer’s email address – but you are free to change the username to anything you desire

Version 1.4.2 can be downloaded from the WordPress plugin page here.

“Word documents can be formatted in a dozen different ways, few of which are directly translatable to HTML in a meaningful way.”

The goal of the conversion upgrade was two-fold:

1. Speed up publishers’ editorial tasks by stripping out all of the unnecessary HTML styles Word documents inherently contain, while at the same time
2. Ensure writers could continue to format their documents (bold, italics, indentation, etc.) in a way that would accurately communicate the story they were trying to tell.

Version 1.4.0 can be downloaded directly from WordPress.org and is immediately available for installation.