Plugin review: Stop User Enumeration
There are bots out there, roaming the Internet poking at websites, trying to break in. These aren’t ninja assassins coming after you in particular —… Read More »Plugin review: Stop User Enumeration
There are bots out there, roaming the Internet poking at websites, trying to break in. These aren’t ninja assassins coming after you in particular —… Read More »Plugin review: Stop User Enumeration
If you’re not the only person involved, in managing your web presence, you might want to have email from your contact form go to different… Read More »Contact form that goes to different recipients based on selection
Your website needs a way for people to get in touch with you (or at least with your representative, if you’re too much a bigshot… Read More »Plugin review: Contact Form 7 vs. WPForms Lite
Most themes have a bit of text and a link at the bottom to the maker of the theme. Especially for their free versions, there… Read More »How to remove the credit line from a theme
WordPress is a secure platform. If you keep your themes and plugins up to date, and you have a good password, you’re most of the… Read More »Plugin review: iThemes Security
It’s necessary to make automatic backups of your site. Many hosting providers will do this for you automatically and keep a few recent version on… Read More »Plugin review: UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup and Restoration
Another essential plugin: Yoast SEO from Team Yoast. This is the most popular plugin for managing SEO (search engine optimization) and related aspects of your… Read More »Plugin review: Yoast SEO
Here’s another plugin I install on every website I create. Your website will likely have an internal search function — not Google, but a built-in… Read More »Plugin review: Search Exclude
This site uses the FlashWP theme. It’s got the following advantages: It has a sticky menu. Two menus in fact. It has a clean look.… Read More »Theme Review: FlashWP
A lot of people like Akismet to block comment spam, but I find (and others have noted) some drawbacks: It’s slow. It sends information about… Read More »Plugin review: Antispam Bee
Google Fonts. There’s a blog entry on websiteplanet with a list of fonts that are free for commercial use. Blambot has a collection of fonts… Read More »Where to get fonts
The plugin Sassy Social Share, which I recommend for share buttons, includes the ability to add a widget with “social links” to the organization’s social… Read More »Adding Subscribe link after Sassy Social Share follow icons
Mooberry Book Manager by Mooberry Dreams I’ve looked at alternatives to create catalogs of books for sale on websites, and this is the one that… Read More »Plugin review: Mooberry Book Manager
Minimal Share Buttons by Milen Petrinski – Gonzo is a very fast, private way to add social media share buttons to your site. It’s not… Read More »Plugin review: Minimal Share Buttons
Sassy Social Share by Team Heateor: Adds share buttons to your posts and pages. I like this because it has the rare combination of features:… Read More »Plugin review: Sassy Social Share
The plugin Genesis Blocks from StudioPress replaces the earlier, popular Atomic Blocks. It adds several useful “block types” to the blocks page editor. Some of… Read More »Plugin review: Genesis Blocks
Classic Editor by WordPress Contributors disables the newer “blocks” page editor in favor of the word-processor-like older editor, TinyMCE. There’s also an option to let… Read More »Plugin review: Classic editor
Forget About Shortcode Buttons by By Designs & Code is a simple way to create “link buttons” in the “classic” editor a variety of styles,… Read More »Plugin review: Forget About Shortcode Buttons