How to set up an animal shelter website in WordPress using PetPress
WordPress is the most ubiquitous content management system on the Internet, accounting for more than 40% of all websites. Since the software is open source (and therefore free to use) it's an obvious favorite of ever-cash-strapped nonprofits. If you are setting up a...
PetPress Release Notes
Version 2.2.2 was released on February 16, 2026. === CHANGELOG: === Version 2.2.2 1) “Location” is now a field that can be on the list pages.2) Added filters (breed, age, sex, size) to list pages (premium feature)3) Additional code to make sure that more attempts are...
PetPress Development Updates
December 22, 2025 The next version of PetPress will be version 2.2, and should be released in mid-January. Although development is essentially done, it doesn't seem like a great idea to try to test during the holiday season as people tend to be focused on other...
PetPress Refresh Interval
About the data refresh interval By default, PetPress refreshes its data every 30 minutes. That means that if you make a change in your shelter management software, it will take up to 30 minutes to see the change on your website. You may, in fact, see the changes...
PetFinder shuts down its API
UPDATE (Nov 19, 2025): Evidently, PetFinder is rolling out a new website on December 2, so it seems that the reason that the API is being shut down is because it is not compatible with the new system and they did not want to put the effort into updating the API. In...
Featured
The "Featured Animals" report can be used to show specific animals marked at "featured" in the data source (consult your data source documentation for instructions on how to designate animals as featured animals). If there is more than one featured animal, they each...
PetPress “Found Animals” Report
One of the new reports in PetPress is the "Found Animals" report, which reflects the animals listed as found in PetPoint. This layout looks slightly different from the "roster" report. This is because PetPoint manages data for found animals completely differently from...