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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…
Thursday, January 22, 2026
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
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.
Monday, September 22, 2025
WordPress Security X – 2025 Edition
When dealing with WordPress security, we need to start from the bottom of the stack and go up. There's usually…
Monday, September 22, 2025
WordPress SEO: How to Calculate Text Readability?
In order to evaluate the effectiveness of your writing, you can easily check the readability of your website pages. Key…
Monday, September 22, 2025
Security Headers: A Concise Guide
Security is as essential as content and SEO, and thousands of websites get compromised due to misconfiguration or lack of…
Monday, September 22, 2025
How to recover old images in WordPress
This article is about how to recover old images in WordPress that are still using obsolete or missing sizes. Let’s…
Monday, September 22, 2025
How to Use WordPress: The Guide
At its core, WordPress is a free online tool for building websites and blogs. It’s a scalable, feature-rich Content Management…
Thursday, March 6, 2025
How to parse a WordPress gallery block and return image IDs
How to parse a WordPress gallery block programmatically and return all image IDs in an array using 3 lines of…
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Why I removed my dark theme switcher
How I implemented a dark/light theme switcher using JavaScript and CSS for both WordPress and static websites.
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Grizzy: How to create a Grid Gallery using modern CSS
In this article, we are going to create a grid gallery using CSS only, more precisely Flexbox CSS. In the…
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Deep Dive into CSS Grid
This tutorial will dive deep into the CSS Grid Layout, exploring all major elements of Grid and almost all properties…
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
How to completely remove Post SMTP logged emails
How to completely remove Post SMTP logged emails and session transcripts Post SMTP is an awesome WordPress plugin, but I…
Friday, November 5, 2021
Active Analytics Update: v2.1.0
I have just released an update version of the Active Analytics WordPress plugin to fix 2 issues: Issue #1: Data…
Friday, November 5, 2021
How to scrape content from Meetup.com using PHP
One of my recent projects involved creating WordPress posts from Meetup.com events. As the API is in beta state and…
Monday, November 1, 2021
WordPress: How to display nearby attractions and amenities using Yelp Nearby
This tutorial will show you how to display nearby attractions and amenities based on geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) using…
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
How to create a Jetpack Site Stats Aggregator
I believe that Jetpack Site Stats doesn’t need an introduction any more. It provides basic but good insights on your…
Monday, May 12, 2025
Lighthouse Update and What’s Next
It’s been a while since the latest Lighthouse update, and this time we had to release another version due to…
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
How to Add a Block Pattern to a WordPress Theme
Here is a hands-on code snippet on how to add a block pattern (or more) to a WordPress theme. The…
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Using Resource Hints to Optimize WordPress Performance
Resource hints provide a way to optimize the performance of your web page on the client side. As the name…
Thursday, May 20, 2021
CSS Rounded Corners Gradient Border
I had a visually heavy project recently and I had to create a gradient border for certain elements. In my…
Thursday, September 21, 2023
“Times New Roman” Enhanced CSS Font Stack
“Times New Roman” as a Classic Web Font Option With Historical Ligatures A ligature is a special character that combines…
Friday, May 20, 2022
How to Create Double Off-canvas Menus With CSS Only
This feature has been part of a website project for many year. The left side off-canvas menu was mobile only,…
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
The Ultimate YouTube Video Embed Setup
Here is a loopable, no-controls, perfect-aspect-ratio YouTube video plus the styles for a perfect, full-width video embed.
Friday, May 14, 2021
WordPress External Featured Image via cURL
Here’s the long title for this code snippet — How to set up an external image as a WordPress featured…
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Start an Ecommerce Store in 2021 Guide
If you have ever considered opening an e-commerce store, now is a great time to take action. In 2020, shoppers…
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Gravity Forms Repeater Plugin
If there is one feature missing from Gravity Forms, that is a field repeater section. A way to set a…
Thursday, May 1, 2025
SpeedFactor Update: Less is More
The past few weeks have brought some long awaited updates to SpeedFactor. As I am focusing on tracking speed, some…
Thursday, August 14, 2025
How to Create a Fixed Teaser Block in WordPress
This tutorial will show you how to create a collapsible fixed pop-up. It can contain subscriptions forms, contact forms, calls…
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
How to Create Smaller Buttons for the Block Editor (Gutenberg)
One of the shortcomings of the WordPress default button blocks is the size variation. There is none. Sometimes the buttons…
Monday, June 26, 2023
WordPress or Amazon? The Hard Choice for Beginner Sellers
When you are starting your own eCommerce business, there are many choices to make, and each one can determine your…
Monday, April 19, 2021
How to Improve Your Mobile Core Web Vitals: Quick Tip
Do you really need those fancy fonts on mobile devices? No? There’s your answer! This applies to any WordPress theme,…
Monday, April 19, 2021
On/Off Toggle Replacement for WordPress Checkboxes
When it comes to WordPress settings and admin panels, I’ve always been a fan of minimalism and default/native styling. I…
Monday, October 20, 2025
My WordPress Plugins – A Short History
Over the course of my 20 years as a PHP developer, I have developed many WordPress plugins. I don’t have…
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Active Analytics Update: Envato
Active Analytics has been published on Envato! I wrote above Active Analytics a few days ago and explained what it…
Monday, October 25, 2021
How to add a date/time picker to Gravity Forms
Here’s a nice challenge I got the other day regarding a better date/time picker for Gravity Forms. When I say…
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Active Analytics Update
What is Active Analytics Active Analytics have been one of our best-selling plugins almost a decade ago, when it was…
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
How to Create Your Own Image Optimization Plugin by Leveraging Jetpack’s Photon
This is a quick code tutorial detailing how to leverage Jetpack’s Photon for custom images. Not all images in your…
Monday, September 22, 2025
How to Create Your Own Website Screenshot Service by Leveraging WordPress’ mShots API Service
This is an example-based tutorial where you will learn how to create a custom post type called Site, add a…