Say What Plugin Passes 10K Active Installs

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Sarah Gooding

WordPress core doesn’t make it easy to edit text strings, but a little plugin called Say What? has been quietly gaining a solid user base by providing this functionality. It allows users to edit text strings without editing WordPress core or plugin code. Lee Willis released Say What in 2013, but ...

10 Fun Ways to Halloween-ify Your WordPress Site

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Brenda Barron

Halloween is one of the best times of year to shake things up and have some fun. If you love this time of year as much as I do, then you’ve already decorated your house and office with cobwebs, candy bowls, and crazy-spooky characters. But who says spreading the Halloween spirit needs to stop the...

New Plugin Adds Changelog Support to WordPress Themes in the Admin

Posted on August 26, 2016February 15, 2017 by Sarah Gooding

photo credit: Luis Llerena When a WordPress plugin has an update available, it comes with a “View Details” link where users can read the changelog before updating. Clicking the details link launches the changelog section of the readme.txt file in a modal window. Themes, on the other hand, do ...

The Ultimate Guide to W3 Total Cache: Works-Every-Time Settings for Shared Web Hosting

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Jon Penland

Shared hosting isn’t the ideal environment for speeding up WordPress with W3 Total Cache. There are features that just don’t work well on a shared server. In addition, if you run into server configuration issues there isn’t much you can do about it if your site is hosted on a shared server. In an...

The Ultimate Guide to W3 Total Cache: All Your Questions Answered

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Jon Penland

Most W3 Total Cache users have a love-hate relationship with the plugin. When it works the way it’s supposed to, it’s all love as page load time is reduced by leaps and bounds. However, when things go wrong, the plugin can be frustratingly (and notoriously) hard to deal with. In this article we’l...

Introducing Hustle… He’s Gonna Make You Some Money

Posted on August 16, 2016 by James Farmer

We’ve got a long history here at WPMU DEV of developing plugins that grow your business, but I’ve always wanted to give you one plugin to rule them all. So today please let me introduce you to the first step in that direction: meet Hustle! Right now, Hustle is the best email opt-in plugin you’re ...

WP Job Manager Forked to Create Listings, A Generic Plugin with Niche Extensions

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Sarah Gooding

Listings is a new plugin that is aiming to be the “One Listings Plugin to Rule Them All.” The Look and Feel, a team led by Scott Basgaard and Coen Jacobs, created Listings to provide a generic platform that will support niche extensions for things like a job board, real estate, cars, and kittens....

New Plugin Adds Featured Audio to WordPress Posts and Pages

Posted on July 16, 2016 by Sarah Gooding

This week Nick Halsey published his new Featured Audio plugin to the WordPress Plugin Directory. Halsey, a WordPress core contributor and a musician, created the plugin to provide a solution that would associate audio files with posts in the same way that WordPress supports featured images out of...

Set a Highlight Color for WordPress Content with Live Preview in the Customizer

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Sarah Gooding

In a recent interview on the WordPress Weekly podcast, when asked about his comments at WordCamp US regarding customization being the biggest opportunity to improve the WordPress experience, Matt Mullenweg said, “The Customizer is everything.” He followed it up by saying that customizing sites vi...

Top 25 Free WordPress Plugins and Why They’re So Damn Popular

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Jenni McKinnon

Ever wondered what the most popular free WordPress plugins are and why they’re so freaking popular? Knowing the answer could help you understand which ones are a must to install on your site (or even what kinds of plugins you should be building). The more plugins you include in your site, the mor...

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