Introduction The WordPress plugin ecosystem is one of its greatest strengths. Tens of thousands of developers, hobbyists, and companies contribute free, freemium, and paid plugins that let anyone extend a site without writing code. That wealth of community contribution is a boon: it’s why WordPress can do almost anything, cheaply or for free, and has…
If you’ve used more than one WordPress security plugin, you already know the frustration: no single plugin ever seems to have everything you need. You end up stacking a security plugin with a logging plugin, maybe a firewall service, and a password policy tool bolted on separately. Atlant Security is worth a look because it…
xCloud has released the first beta of xCloud Pulse, a native Mac application that lets you monitor your virtual private servers and sites without ever logging into the xCloud dashboard. It’s the first product to take advantage of the xCloud API, which the team introduced recently to let developers integrate with xCloud hosting accounts and…
I’ve been following Builderius since its transition from Uni CPO and one thing that has always been clear is that Builderius is different from other WordPress builders. The team, the goals and philosophy, its architecture, and the way it has been implemented makes it unique. I asked for permission to write a behind the scenes…
Unblock is a new Gutenberg-based page builder for WordPress. It comes from the same developer as WP Grid Builder, a well-respected and widely used plugin, and so it caught my attention and I wanted to take a closer look. In this article I’ll walk through the Unblock feature set, the user interface, and share some…
TableKit Pro is a Gutenberg based table plugin from WPMet. The pro version is new. They have several plugins such as ElementKit for Elementor, GutenKit which is a block collection for Gutenberg, and ShopEngine a WooCommerce plugin. I was given a copy of TableKit Pro to try it out. In addition to the advanced table…
If your WordPress media library has been growing for years, you’ve probably noticed it’s getting harder to manage — and eating up more and more server disk space. Most image optimization plugins offer partial solutions: they shrink file sizes, or they serve WebP to supporting browsers, but they leave you with duplicate image files and…
Introduction This is a rewrite of the original article that was published in January of 2020. The information in the original still largely holds, but WordPress core has added new image sizes and WebP and AVIF have become common place. I’ve also expanded the article to add more code snippets for power users. WordPress creates…
