WordPress.com plugin pages have been updated to include a download link for WordPress.org plugins listed in the .com directory. These are the listings that are scraped from WordPress.org. The plugins are available for free on WordPress.org for self-hosted sites but… Continue Reading →
Citations is a new plugin created by WP Munich and the team at Luehrsen // Heinrich, a German WordPress agency. It makes it easy to create in-text citations and assign them a specific source. Most of the existing plugins that do this… Continue Reading →
Version 1.0.0 of the ActivityPub plugin was released this week with major updates that make it possible to have a blog-wide account, instead of just individual author accounts, where followers receive updates from all authors. This new feature allows people… Continue Reading →
It has be nearly one year since WordPress silently turned off active install growth data for plugins hosted in the official plugin repository, a key metric that many developers rely on for accurate tracking and product decision-making. “Insufficient data obfuscation”… Continue Reading →
On August 24, 2023, our Wordfence Threat Intelligence team identified and began the responsible disclosure process for a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and a Blind SQL Injection vulnerability in the Slimstat Analytics plugin, which is actively installed on more than… Continue Reading →
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), one of the plugins WP Engine acquired from Delicious Brains in 2022, has published the results if its first annual survey. Although ACF reports more than 4.5 million active users, including PRO site installs, the survey only gathered… Continue Reading →
After an accumulation of undisclosed and unpatched vulnerabilities in plugins hosted on WordPress.org, Patchstack has reported 404 plugins to WordPress’ Plugin Review Team. “This situation creates a significant risk for the WordPress community, and we decided to take action,” Patchstack… Continue Reading →
After an in-depth performance analysis earlier this year revealed that translations can impact server response times, WordPress contributors proposed half a dozen technical solutions for consideration to improve performance for the ~56% of sites that use translations. Performant Translations, a feature… Continue Reading →
Do you manage a WordPress site for researchers, scholars, or educators? Use these plugins to easily add footnotes, citations, a table of contents, or a glossary to academic or research content. WordPress offers many plugins that make it easier for… Continue Reading →
Excited by the promise of AI but not sure how to get started? The look no further than this magical ChatGPT WordPress plugin.
WordPress Playground, an experimental project that uses WebAssembly (WASM) to run WordPress in the browser, makes it possible for users to quickly test plugins and themes without having to set up a local development environment. Ordinarily, testing a plugin or theme with… Continue Reading →
Equalize Digital, a WordPress accessibility products and services company, has added a new frontend highlighting feature to its free accessibility checker plugin, which is used to perform audits on self-hosted sites. The feature was funded by the National Aeronautics and… Continue Reading →
The post 8 of the Best WordPress Testimonial Plugins Compared (2023) is written by Editorial Staff and appeared first on WPKube. Searching for the best WordPress testimonials plugin to boost social trust on your website? Displaying testimonials can be a… Continue Reading →
You need to have custom templates with rewrite rules in your WordPress plugin. This is not a custom template in the WordPress sense and you’ll only have as many rewrite rules as you do templates. Source
When it comes to enhancing the functionality and automation of your blog, using plugins is essential. However, with over 50,366 plugins available in the official WordPress plugin database, it can be overwhelming to choose the right ones. In this article,… Continue Reading →
group.one, a European cloud hosting and digital marketing services provider, has acquired the BackWPup, Adminimize, and Search & Replace plugins from Inpsyde. Together the products have more than 1.1 million active installs and will join group.one’s growing portfolio of WordPress products, which include… Continue Reading →
Do you need a WordPress advertising plugin to help you insert ads on your site and manage them? Google AdSense and other ad networks allow you to monetize your content…
WordPress’ Plugin Review team is wading through a backlog that was over 900 plugins awaiting approval earlier this week. The current count has 870 plugins sitting in the review queue, with an average wait time of 61 days before initial… Continue Reading →
The Kadence Blocks plugin, which is used on more than 300,000 WordPress sites, has patched a critical vulnerability in its Advanced Form Block file upload capability. Version 3.1.11, released on August 8, 2023, patches the security issue with the form… Continue Reading →
Quizzes provide one of the most effective ways to get users to interact with your website, and WordPress quiz plugins provide one of the easiest ways to create quizzes for…
ConvertKit has updated its official WordPress plugin and WooCommerce add-on to support a range of new features. More than 40,000 sites use ConvertKit’s plugin to integrate their newsletters, email campaigns, and digital products with WordPress. The service is free for… Continue Reading →
Jetpack 12.4 was released today, launching the plugin’s Newsletter product. It allows users to send blog posts as newsletters, without the hassle of having to copy and paste from the WordPress editor into another newsletter service’s campaign editor and reformat… Continue Reading →
WordPress security plugins provide one of the easiest ways to keep a WordPress site free of malware and prevent takeover events. Even if your host’s security is rock solid, a…
Code review is an integral part of the development cycle, with a direct impact on quality. Whether you’re focused on web, plugin, or theme development, thorough code review can help you improve your final product. In this article, we look… Continue Reading →
Businesses constantly face new challenges and opportunities. Over the last few years many companies have had to adjust their operations to accommodate the new remote working environment, while others have had to make drastic changes to their business models to… Continue Reading →
This week I review another forums plugin: Sabai Discuss – Q&A forum [powerpress]
This week I review LearnDash [powerpress]
This week I review another Forums solution: ForumWP [powerpress]
This week I follow up with part 2 of a Q/A plugin review [powerpress]
This week I continue the forums plugin research/reviews: DW Question and Answer [powerpress]
