The Learning Registry is an open source initiative dedicated to bringing together high quality digital learning resources from federal agencies and public and private organizations around the web. The registry is available for anyone to use – educators, publishers and developers are encouraged to tap into the database and add resources that haven’t yet been…
If you’ve ever tried to update a large WordPress multisite network, then you’ve undoubtedly experienced the frustration of watching that spinning indicator hang once it’s found a domain that can’t be reached. This is quite common in the case of domain mapping. A ticket exists for fixing this issue in WordPress, but in the meantime…
Bucket List is a new plugin that lets you organize multiple lists of goals within WordPress. In case you’re not familiar with the term, a “bucket list” is a list of things you want to do before you kick the proverbial bucket. Many people get a kick out of crossing these items off one by…
WPKube asked 40 members of the WordPress community what their five favorite plugins are. Within the list are the usual suspects Akismet, Jetpack, W3 Total Cache, WordPress SEO By Yoast, and Gravity Forms. I participated in the list and without further adieu, here are my five favorite WordPress plugins. Akismet – I’d be wasting a…
Buckets is a plugin that has been providing an alternative to WordPress widgets for the past two years. Created by plugin developer Matthew Restorff, Buckets allows you to create reusable pieces of content and place them anywhere on your WordPress site. When describing his motivation for creating Buckets, Restorff says that the plugin was meant…
In light of recent events wherein WordPress.org plugin authors have been receiving suspicious requests for repository access, Mika Epstein posted a clarification on taking over plugins. The plugin team does not give out plugin author emails. Instead, the team acts as an intermediary to send the author an email, notifying them of a third-party trying…
It started off as a blog post. Fresh out of WordCamp Norway, Slobodan Manic shared his experience at the event. Near the end of the post, Slobodan asked fellow developers if they’d like to release a plugin together. The idea being that working together creates more opportunities to learn. The plugin would have a few…
Developed by Brady Vercher and Gary Jones, Plugin Toggle adds the ability to disable or enable plugins from the WordPress admin bar. This simple plugin is awesome, especially when it comes to diagnosing problems. One of the tenents of troubleshooting WordPress is to disable every plugin and re-enable them one by one in a process…
The Piklist rapid development framework for WordPress has rebranded and relaunched its website with the 0.9.0 release. The framework helps developers to quickly build things like fields for settings pages, widgets, custom post types, custom taxonomies and user profiles with minimal code. The most recent 0.9.0 release includes the ability to easily create your own…
On February 11th, 2014, internet users around the world plan to fight back in protest against mass surveillance. The setup is similar to the protest that was held in January 2012, which helped to defeat SOPA and PIPA censorship legislation. The February 11th event is called The Day We Fight Back and the mission is:…
A suspicious request has been circulating via email, soliciting WordPress.org plugin authors to give a third party write access to their repositories. The originator of these requests goes by the username bestweblayout on WordPress.org and operates the bestweblayout.com domain. The issue was first reported by WordPress user FractalizeR, who posted the contents of the email:…
As I was writing a post the other night, I mistakenly clicked the publish button thinking it would update the post. This sent me into panic mode. I watched the animated circle spinning endlessly as if it were laughing at me. Not knowing what to do, I clicked a few buttons, including the Trash link…
On today’s Daily Plugin, Marcus Couch looks at plugins for Maps, Mobility, Menus, Money and Maintenance. Let’s get plugged in!
If you’re looking to learn more about running and maintaining your own membership site, this episode is for you! So sit back, grab a cold one and join me in my conversation with Dave Jackson from The School of Podcasting!
A test environment for your WordPress site is an important part of being able to ensure smooth updates. It also allows you to test new plugins and themes without affecting visitors. However, creating an exact copy of your site in the same environment is no simple task. There are many commercial plugins and WordPress hosts…