Our biggest sale of the year! Save 40% on all Pro WordPress plugins and books w/ code FRIDAY23. Pro plugins include: BBQ Pro Blackhole Pro Banhammer Pro GA Google Analytics Pro Simple Ajax Chat Pro User Submitted Posts Pro Sale also applies to all Security Bundles, Unlimited Lifetime Licenses, and WordPress books. Learn more and shop plugins » Sale ends November 28th, 2023 Direct link to article | View post at DigWP.com ..read more

I’ve written numerous tutorials explaining how to troubleshoot WordPress, plugins, , and more. When investigating issues, diagnosing problems, and hunting bugs, troubleshooting is a critical core skill for any web developer. To help readers level up their tool belt, here’s a quick round-up of free plugins to help troubleshoot any of your WordPress projects. Plugins to troubleshoot & debug WordPress There are TONS of great troubleshooting plugins available at the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. Some of these plugins you’re probably familiar with, others are newer with their own unique feat ..read more

Super pumped to announce two new plugins: Simple Download Counter and Simple Login Notification. The first is a lightweight yet powerful way to manage and count downloads. The second is a tiny plugin (only 20 KB!) that sends an email alert whenever an admin-level user logs in. Both of these plugins are lightweight, fast, 100% FREE and open source :) Direct link to article | View post at DigWP.com ..read more

Launching my latest WordPress plugin: SAC Pro! Unlimited chat forms with tons of great features and no 3rd-party service required (most/all other chat plugins require 3rd-party service). Read the official launch post and get SAC Pro » Direct link to article | View post at DigWP.com ..read more

There are many books and tutorials that share useful code snippets for WordPress. For example, you can find hundreds of custom functions right here at DigWP.com. You can also find them in my WordPress books, tutorials, and code snippets. For many code snippets and custom functions, the usage instructions will say something like: Add this code to your theme (or child theme’s) functions.php file, or add the code via simple custom plugin. So what does that actually mean? Let’s take a closer look. First we’ll go through how to add custom code via the functions.php file. Then we’ll explain how t ..read more

I just finished up my latest book, Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress. And it’s packed with over 300 time-saving code snippets for managing and optimizing your WordPress database. For example, one of the recipes from the book shows how to delete unwanted user-agent data from the WP comments table. This is an easy optimization step that can help to free up some precious disk space. Check out the Demo/Table of Contents for Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress. Show all user-agent data Did you know that WordPress collects the visitor’s user-agent data for every comment? In the database, user-agent ..read more

Discovered an awesome code snippets plugin called WPCodeBox. There are plenty of code-snippet plugins out there, but this one goes above and beyond with features like cloud-based storage, a growing snippets repository, and a condition builder to control the location and timing of any code snippets. Check it out! Direct link to article | View post at DigWP.com ..read more

Excited to launch my new book: Wizard's SQL Recipes for WordPress. Optimize and manage your WordPress database. Complete chapter on optimizing performance. Over 300 time-saving recipes. Level up your database skills! Demo: https://m0n.co/wizards-sql-demo Home: https://m0n.co/wizards-sql Direct link to article | View post at DigWP.com ..read more

By default the Gutenberg Block Editor loads its default CSS/stylesheet on the front-end of your WordPress site. This is fine for most cases, but there may be situations where you want to disable the Gutenberg styles for whatever reason. For example, my free WordPress plugin, Disable Gutenberg, enables users to disable the Gutenberg Block Editor and restore the Classic Editor. Included in the plugin settings is an option called “Enable Frontend” that lets users enable or disable the Gutenberg CSS/styles as desired. This quick DigWP tutorial explains programmatically how to disable Gutenberg st ..read more

Thanks to David McCan over at WebTNG for his in-depth review of my WordPress firewall plugin, BBQ Pro. It's a pleasure to read and packed with plenty of awesome screenshots :) Direct link to article | View post at DigWP.com ..read more