Reviews of WordPress plugins on the directory come in all shapes and sizes. Some are really helpful while others are short and to the point. For example, this review from a recent WP eCommerce user, “I uninstalled and it left orphan tables I now have to clean up manually. Poorly done.” This type of review…
In 2011, Michael Bastos created the Advanced WordPress Group on Facebook to provide a place for people to gather and discuss advanced WordPress topics. After being featured on the Tavern in the Summer of 2014, membership skyrocketed from 7,400 members to over 10,000. Nearly two years later, the group has surpassed 20,000 members. To celebrate…
Endurance International Group or EIG owns a number of popular webhosting companies, including Bluehost, HostGator, and A Small Orange. It’s also an investor in Automattic, parent company of WordPress.com. While I’ve read and heard a number of complaints from people in the WordPress community about EIG owned companies, I’ve never looked into how EIG started.…
Jetpack 4.0.4 is available for download and users are encouraged to update as soon as possible. This release contains a number of security fixes, including extra security to post by email, a patched XSS vulnerability in the Likes module, and a fix to ensure that submitted Feedback forms are not publicly available via the REST…
One of my favorite features in WordPress is the ability to easily embed content from services such as YouTube by copying and pasting the source URL into the post editor. The feature is called oEmbed and was added seven years ago to WordPress 2.9. While content authors enjoy the luxury of easily embedding content, commenters…
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I are joined by Adam Warner, SiteLock’s WordPress evangelist. Warner describes how he got involved with WordPress and how it helped shape his career. We discuss his crowdfunding campaign to democratize publishing which didn’t turn out so well. Near the end of the interview, we learn…
Brad Touesnard, Founder of Delicious Brains, explains why clients should own the licenses purchased by developers if the plugin is an integral part of the project. Sometimes developers who purchase licenses fail to keep them updated or keep in touch with clients. “Worst case scenario: The client never updates the plugin and eventually it breaks…
After more than a year in development, Gravity Forms 2.0 is available for download. This release contains a number of new features and developer enhancements. Conditional logic is now supported by more fields and can be used on multi-input fields such as Name and Address. The underlying code contains improvements that provide the foundation for upcoming…
This past weekend I attended WordCamp North East Ohio held in downtown Kent, OH, organized by Rich Robinkoff and Angela Bergmann. The Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center served as the venue and main hotel for the event. The convenience of having the hotel and venue be in the same building can not be…
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I discuss the news of the week including, Jetpack’s new developer code reference, shiny updates in WordPress 4.6, and Ukraine holding its first WordCamp. We also discuss whether or not WordCamp afterparties should be alcohol free and the circumstances surrounding the idea. Last but not least…
When it comes to selling commercial WordPress products, it’s common for developers to use a myriad of plugins to handle different aspects of the site. For example, Easy Digital Downloads handles commerce while the Software Licensing add-on addresses license keys. Depending on the complexity and the number of products involved, maintaining and configuring such a…
The Postmatic team has announced that version two of its plugin is available for download. This release contains a number of new features including digests, comment intelligence, service integration support, new email templates, and more. Comment Intelligence Instead of sending emails for every comment, Comment Intelligence analyzes the comment’s content and sends an email if…
When we asked whether or not WordCamp afterparties should be alcohol free, WP Tavern readers responded passionately. A majority of commenters argued that the afterparty is a social event and that alcohol is a social lubricant established in societies across the world. “Although I completely understand the discussion and the sentiments that surround it, it’s…
Inspired by an article published on Red Queen Coder on the pervasiveness of alcohol in the programming community, Gary Pendergast, WordPress core contributor asked the following question on Twitter, “Has anyone been to WordCamps that removed the alcohol focus from afterparties?” It feels like the WordPress community has the same problem. Has anyone been to…
There’s a lot of great WordPress content published in the community but not all of it is featured on the Tavern. This post is an assortment of items related to WordPress that caught my eye but didn’t make it into a full post. Bob Dunn Launches Theme and Plugin Roundups Bob Dunn, founder of BobWP,…