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Monday, September 22, 2025

WP Send

WP Send is the simplest way to send your files around the world. Share large files with configurable filesizes and…

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

WordPress Plugins – Focus Update

“Every 3-6 months, it’s smart to take a step back and see if you are still on the path you…

Monday, May 12, 2025

Lighthouse – CAPTCHA, Akismet Integration and Spam Registration Hooks

I am excited to announce the latest release of Lighthouse in 2024, the WordPress performance tuning plugin that removes a…

Friday, January 19, 2024

New ImagePress release, new profile editor UI and lots of issues fixed

The latest version of ImagePress decouples the user profile hooks from the front-end profile editor. The reason is that, when…

Monday, December 16, 2024

Mingle Forum Refactoring, Dogfooding and More

I have just launched version 3 of my Mingle Forum plugin. Yes, forums are a dying breed, and that’s why…

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

The Golden Age of Forums

Do you remember forums? They’re still around, obviously, but do you remember the golden age of forums? Every developer or…

Monday, September 22, 2025

How to Build a Multi-User Image Gallery in WordPress: A Comprehensive Guide

So, you want to build a specialized online platform designed for artists, particularly those in the fields of digital art,…

Friday, July 12, 2024

ImagePress – User Onboarding

The latest version of ImagePress has a new feature: onboarding. It's something that every plugin should have, and this is…

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

tail.select is getting an update

The tail.select JavaScript library is getting an update, jumping from 0.5.x to 1.0.0, and breaking custom functionality.

Monday, September 22, 2025

Advantages of PHP 8.3 with WordPress

I have upgraded my hosting server to PHP 8.3 for all my WordPress and non-WordPress websites. While I am yet…

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

How to build a block editor sidebar using vanilla JavaScript

This article will explain how I moved away from the True Metabox plugin and coded my own sidebar for a…

Monday, September 22, 2025

20 essential steps in payment gateway testing for your WordPress plugin store

We have recently updated the user interface for our WordPress plugin store. We have also updated the customer experience with…

Monday, September 22, 2025

How to remove spam users and prevent spam registrations

A client of mine had an old website that grew uncontrollably large with thousands of spam registrations, spam posts, spam…

Monday, September 22, 2025

How to Enable JavaScript

How to enable JavaScript in your browser and why Nowadays, all web pages contain JavaScript, a scripting programming language that…

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

The Musk Algorithm

Walter Isaacson’s new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book. And like all the best…

Monday, September 25, 2023

Segmented Horizontal Bar Chart (Graph) Using Vanilla JavaScript

If you're looking to create a segmented (stepped) horizontal bar chart using nothing but vanilla JavaScript, you're in luck!

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

How to allow subsite administrators to edit users in a WordPress Multisite Network

WordPress Multisite is a powerful feature that allows me to manage multiple WordPress websites (or subsites) from a single installation.…

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

How You Can Join Successful Sellers Running an Amazon Business from Home

If you follow technology trends in recent years, you can’t help but notice the number of people running their Amazon…

Thursday, September 7, 2023

How to disable and remove old post revisions in WordPress (including multisite)

If you don't want to use a plugin to clean up your WordPress website and insist on custom coding it,…

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

How to add a Media Manager button to a block editor metabox

How to add a "Manage Media" (remember "Add Media"?) button to any post type and allow users to attach images,…

Monday, September 22, 2025

A collection of modern native JavaScript object and array utilities

Arrays Chunk Creates an array of elements split into groups the length of size. Compact Creates an array with all…

Monday, July 28, 2025

How I am tracking my WordPress plugin updates on my own update server

I am selling my WordPress plugins, and they all come with a lifetime updater feature. Most of my plugins, including…

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

How to get all videos from a YouTube channel using PHP and JavaScript

The code below works with multiple channels. First, we need to loop through all channels and get all videos. The…

Monday, September 22, 2025

Active Analytics and optimal data storage techniques

I have released a new version of the Active Analytics plugin for WordPress. This version focuses entirely on data storage,…

Monday, May 12, 2025

Lighthouse is removing the Core Web Vitals and CrUX features

Why? There are multiple reasons and multiple factors involved. There are a few key reasons behind this change, all of…

Monday, May 12, 2025

How I tackled WordPress registration spam

For a while now, I have been using Mika’s Ban Hammer plugin with a custom list of blacklisted domain names…

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Tracking pageviews, sessions and unique users in WordPress using Active Analytics

For almost 2 years, I’ve been tracking WordPress visits using my Active Analytics plugin. I’ve gradually removed Google Analytics from…

Monday, June 24, 2024

QuakeWiki.net is changing owners

It’s time for me to pass the torch to another huge Quake fan – Spirit from Quaddicted.com. I’ve been the…

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

How to code a website security audit using PHP and WordPress

This tutorial will teach you how to build a website security audit in the form of a WordPress plugin. We…

Monday, September 22, 2025

The Impact of Website Speed on Conversion Rates

Although content, social media, paid marketing, and design all play an important role in setting up a successful online business,…

Monday, September 22, 2025

Admin Menu Tree Page View 2.8 Refactoring Update

This has been a long time coming, and it’s finally live now. For this refactoring update, I have employed around…

Monday, September 22, 2025

A Detailed Page Builder Comparison of Elementor, WPBakery and the Native WordPress Block Editor

This article is aimed at several of my clients, pondering which theme to use. There are countless comparisons out there,…

Monday, December 16, 2024

SEO, Adjacent Posts and Session Duration

Time on site, or session duration, is the total amount of time that a user spends on a website. A small…

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Missing Open Graph Images? Remove Image Hotlinking!

I have just found out that my image hotlinking solution was preventing social networks from reading my Open Graph image…

Monday, September 22, 2025

Custom WordPress Plugin Update Server

This is an automatic updater for plugins hosted outside WordPress.org. Currently, WordPress doesn’t have an easy way for plugins which…

Monday, September 22, 2025

Lighthouse Security Update: Brute-Force Login Protection

Security Update: Brute-Force Login Protection Have you heard about the latest update to the Lighthouse WordPress plugin? It just got…

Thursday, January 19, 2023

Securing Your WordPress Site: A Guide to Limiting Login Attempts Without a Plugin

Brute-force login attacks pose a significant threat to the security of WordPress websites. This type of attack involves repeatedly guessing…

Monday, September 22, 2025

Analysis of a WordPress Analytics Plugin

Active Analytics has become a daily necessity, and the data is available at a glance with the most relevant information…

Monday, September 22, 2025

Breaking Changes for Active Analytics

If you are looking for a WordPress analytics plugin, look no further. Active Analytics is a lightweight plugin which stores…

Thursday, October 27, 2022

Active Analytics Tracking Update

Active Analytics has reached version 2.3. As part of an ongoing speed improvement initiative, we decided to switch to asynchronous…

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Fast and accessible CSS-only client logo carousel

Fast and accessible CSS-only client logo carousel. One in two sites requires some kind of client/provider logo carousel.

Monday, September 22, 2025

BOTS

Introduction This year I have coded and launched a small app (available on Google Play Store and as a PWA),…

Monday, September 22, 2025

What is an Influencer Marketing Strategy?

Influencer marketing has come along in leaps and bounds over the last few years, with the rise of social media…

Monday, September 22, 2025

Python Application SDKs For File Uploading

In this article, we will be looking at SDKs that can be used for file uploading in python applications. These…

Monday, August 8, 2022

Compress Your Images for Faster Page Speed and Better SEO

We have recently launched an image compressor aimed at web designers, web developers and bloggers in general to help optimizing…

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

How to Set Up a Professional Email Address With Gmail and Google Workspace (G Suite)

Need a helping hand with how to set up Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) for your website so that you can have…

Monday, September 22, 2025

WordPress Update Services: WordPress Ping List & Tutorial

Utilizing WordPress update services is your first step to faster indexing. As a mechanism that literally says “hello, I am…

Monday, September 22, 2025

Click Instead of Hover: A CSS-only “Clicky” Menu

Simple click-triggered navigation submenus. Accessible and progressively enhanced. Hover is not consistent, not accessible and inefficient.

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