Plugins

  • Help Test the New WordPress Importer Plugin in Development

    Help Test the New WordPress Importer Plugin in Development

    The official WordPress Importer plugin is in shambles and has frustrated users with inconsistent performance for years. The plugin has more than a million active installations and is critical for migrations, unless you are familiar with using more advanced tools. With years of unresolved support threads identifying the plugin’s many bugs, the importer is in…

  • MonsterInsights Addresses User Criticism With Immediate Changes

    MonsterInsights Addresses User Criticism With Immediate Changes

    When Google Analytics by Yoast suddenly turned into MonsterInsights yesterday, many users were taken by surprise. Users voiced their frustration and concerns on the plugin’s support forum. Some users thought their sites were hacked after noticing the menu label changed and seeing a bright green menu icon. Syed Balkhi, founder of WPBeginner.com, along with Chris…

  • Simple Cache: A New One-Click Install Caching Plugin for WordPress

    Simple Cache: A New One-Click Install Caching Plugin for WordPress

    WordPress caching plugins are notorious for being packed full of confusing options, spammy with upsells, and difficult to uninstall. Users who are looking for a caching solution that simply works and has nothing to configure should check out Simple Cache, a new plugin on WordPress.org that offers a one-click install. The plugin promises lightning fast…

  • Edit Flow Lives, New Update Fixes Bugs and Improves Performance

    Edit Flow Lives, New Update Fixes Bugs and Improves Performance

    Twenty-four hours ago, the future of Edit Flow was unclear due to a lack of communication from the project’s maintainer, Automattic. Today however, the company pushed Edit Flow 0.8.1 to the WordPress plugin directory which is the same version that’s on GitHub. According to the plugin’s changelog, 0.8.1 includes the following: New German localization New…

  • Hey Automattic, What’s Going on With Edit Flow?

    Hey Automattic, What’s Going on With Edit Flow?

    Edit Flow is an editorial workflow plugin for WordPress created in 2009 that is actively installed on more than 10K sites. Although the author listing on the plugin’s page shows Mohammad Jangda, Daniel Bachhuber, and Scott Bressler as authors, it’s currently maintained by Automattic. Bachhuber announced in 2013 that Automattic claimed ownership of all the…

  • AffiliateWP Passes 30K in Monthly Revenue After 2 Years in Business

    AffiliateWP Passes 30K in Monthly Revenue After 2 Years in Business

    The team behind AffiliateWP is celebrating its second anniversary today. The plugin and its suite of add-ons has rapidly become one of the most successful products in the WordPress ecosystem under the leadership of Pippin Williamson and his team. Williamson, who is known for his yearly transparency reports, shared that AffiliateWP was the fastest of…

  • VersionPress Transitions Into a Free Open Source Project

    VersionPress Transitions Into a Free Open Source Project

    Borek Bernard and Jan Voráček, creators of VersionPress, announced that they’re transitioning the plugin into a free, open source project hosted on GitHub. In addition, they are releasing VersionPress 3.0 Beta, the first version released under the new model. Open Source Is the Way Forward In a post on the product’s site, Bernard explains that…

  • User Role Editor 4.25 Patches Critical Security Vulnerability

    User Role Editor 4.25 Patches Critical Security Vulnerability

    Vladimir Garagulya, developer of the User Role Editor has patched a critical security vulnerability. User Role Editor is used to edit, manage, and create user roles and capabilities and is active on more than 300K sites. User Role Editor 4.24 and below allows any registered user to gain administrator access. Wordfence, a popular security plugin…

  • Jetpack 3.9.6 Fixes Bug that Inserts Random Vimeo Videos into Comments

    Jetpack 3.9.6 Fixes Bug that Inserts Random Vimeo Videos into Comments

    Jetpack 3.9.5 was released yesterday with compatibilities for the upcoming WordPress 4.5 release and a handful of enhancements/bug fixes. Shortly after issuing the routine maintenance update, the Jetpack team began receiving reports of random, unwanted videos being added to the comments of posts. Any number string in the comments was automatically converted into a Vimeo…

  • Keep Track of Your WordPress.org Themes and Plugins with WP Dev Dashboard

    Keep Track of Your WordPress.org Themes and Plugins with WP Dev Dashboard

    The official plugin directory is arguably the best place to host a plugin if you’re looking for the widest distribution, but it’s also one of the most inhospitable for developers. A current meta team initiative is focused on improving search, including prioritizing translated plugins for international users, and streamlining plugin submission, among other improvements. This…

  • Modern Tribe Acquires GigPress, Exploring SaaS Events Management Solution

    Modern Tribe Acquires GigPress, Exploring SaaS Events Management Solution

    Modern Tribe, a top digital agency with a collection of popular plugins on WordPress.org, announced that it has acquired GigPress. With 20,000+ active installs and more than 260,000 downloads, GigPress is one of the most widely used plugins for musicians and performers who want to manage events with WordPress. Despite the plugin’s solid placement in…

  • Draft and Save Customizer Changes for Later with New Customize Snapshots Plugin

    Draft and Save Customizer Changes for Later with New Customize Snapshots Plugin

    As the WordPress customizer becomes more widely adopted by theme and plugin developers, users often have a host of live preview options to play with when personalizing their sites. Different combinations can produce wildly different designs. What if you could save a preview of customizations before going live with it? This is the idea behind…

  • Versions of WP-CLI Prior to 0.23.0 Are Incompatible with WordPress 4.5

    Versions of WP-CLI Prior to 0.23.0 Are Incompatible with WordPress 4.5

    Daniel Bachhuber, maintainer of WP-CLI, a popular command line interface utility for managing WordPress sites, has released version 0.23.0. This release includes a number of bug fixes, improvements, and features, but the most important thing to note is that earlier versions of WP-CLI will not work with WordPress 4.5. According to Bachhuber, WordPress 4.5 loads…

  • Frederick Townes Confirms W3 Total Cache is Not Abandoned

    Frederick Townes Confirms W3 Total Cache is Not Abandoned

    W3 Total Cache is a free, caching WordPress plugin created by Frederick Townes that’s active on more than one million sites. While the plugin’s core functionality is free to use, there’s a handful of services users can buy from within the plugin such as enhanced support to server and site configurations. A recent post by…

  • WPForms Aims to be the Most Beginner Friendly Forms Plugin for WordPress

    WPForms Aims to be the Most Beginner Friendly Forms Plugin for WordPress

    WPForms Lite is a new plugin developed by Syed Balkhi and Jared Atchison that aims to be the most beginner friendly form creation plugin in the market, “We made simple tasks EASY rather than letting the complex tasks define how hard simple will be,” Balkhi told the Tavern. I took the plugin for a test…