In the Alpha and Delta Quadrants
I’m sure someone, somewhere has done a scientific study of how long it takes an average WordPress user to update either their WordPress installation or their plugins, but after releasing a point upgrade to my minuscule plugin about 3 weeks ago, it’s only just got to 47% of users upgraded. Some people raising support issues also …
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If you end up in a situation where it is either too much work to add thumbnails / featured images to posts, or you have imported posts and the images are only set in the content, then you need a quick way of using the images in the content as thumbnails. This “hack”, works here on a …
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This may be obvious to many, when we think of it – hopefully not in hindsight, but as one of the most popular “blog/CMS” systems WordPress sites are the subject of daily crack attempts. Whilst the Wordfence plugin will help you to find and block such attempts, amongst other things, it is also important not to …
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This plugin fetches an excerpt of an external website link. The exert contains the title, description and image. V1.5.2 Update: Added option to place the button in the “Media Button” row above the editor and changed the default for new install’s to use PHP’s HTML Dom instead of regex’s. v1.5.0 Update: Rewrote the source parser …