Need to generate a one-time login…
Brian Krogsgard
Need to generate a one-time login URL in WordPress? Check out One Time Login from Daniel Bachhuber, which was recently released... Ryan Duff also has a similar plugin.
The new Super Emoji Plus+ WordPress…
Brian Krogsgard
The new Super Emoji Plus+ WordPress plugin from Eric Andrew Lewis might be the answer to some prayers if you've been looking for an easy way to insert emoji into content. True, there have been ways to add emoji to…
Encouragement to reward folks who find plugin vulnerabilities
Brian Krogsgard
Mika Epstein posted a recommendation on Make WordPress Plugins for authors who make money from plugins to utilize a service like HackerOne to help identify and fix vulnerabilities in their plugins. The WordPress tag on HackerOne -- which is a…
A new “Get WordPress” landing page is in the works
Brian Krogsgard
A couple of months ago, Mark Uraine described the thinking behind what is now likely to be a new landing page at WordPress.org/get: For quite a while now, the meta team has been interested in improving the download and mobile pages…
Ever wanted to setup a demo…
Brian Krogsgard
Ever wanted to setup a demo walk-through for your theme or plugin? John Turner walks you through how he accomplished it with his Coming Soon plugin.
Scott Bolinger talks about what was…
Brian Krogsgard
Scott Bolinger talks about what was learned after professional user testing was conducted on the new WooCommerce Smart Checkout product. Testing was done with usertesting.com. In the end, Scott definitely recommends it. I know it's not on every client (or…
Congrats to 10up who recently announced…
Brian Krogsgard
Congrats to 10up who recently announced that one of their client projects was given a Webby Award and three others received the People’s Voice Webby, selected by open voting. It's wonderful watching WordPress websites winning Webbys (say that five times fast).
Here’s another reminder not to allow…
Brian Krogsgard
Here's another reminder not to allow sensitive information to be published to Github, especially in public repos. Looks like people are even allowing their Slack tokens to be posted. Luckily, in this case, Slack claims to be actively looking for…
Here’s a g good list of Accessibility…
Brian Krogsgard
Here's a g good list of Accessibility tools written in HTML or JavaScript.
Guggenheim.org has recently been redesigned. The…
Brian Krogsgard
Guggenheim.org has recently been redesigned. The official blog covers the changes made and why they chose WordPress. The main WordPress-centric quote: We chose WordPress for a few reasons—among them, the broad pool of developer resources, the excellence of the content…
When it comes to WordPress and…
Brian Krogsgard
When it comes to WordPress and translation, it doesn't really take much -- all you need is language knowledge and a little bit of time. Kayleigh Thorpe shows in a recent post how you can contribute to the translation of…
I haven’t used Opera in years,…
Brian Krogsgard
I haven't used Opera in years, but I think it's cool that it now has a free and unlimited VPN built in.
Sucuri does another of its great…
Brian Krogsgard
Sucuri does another of its great in-depth reports on how hackers can add malware and other bad things to your website. This time they show how hackers can tweak WordPress to hide spammy posts from real visitors while leaving them…
WooCommerce Box Office: A recently added…
Brian Krogsgard
WooCommerce Box Office: A recently added WooCommerce extension allows you to create and sell tickets directly to customers so they don't have go through a third-party site or service. This plugin managed all ticket sales, coupons, live-stream tickets and onsite…
“Fun” fact: The average size of…
Brian Krogsgard
"Fun" fact: The average size of web page today is the average size of a Doom install. Related: As if we needed another reason to keep our websites at a reasonable size, AT&T is launching a program for Internet access…
Some great solutions exist if you…
Brian Krogsgard
Some great solutions exist if you want to replace WordPress's default search (SearchWP, ElasticSearch, etc.) but sometimes you or your client just want to use Google. This tutorial from Elegant Themes shows you can get Google Search to replace WordPress…
