The popular User Role Editor plugin allows WordPress site owners to manage user roles and privileges. In the new version 4.25, the plugin developer has fixed a critical vulnerability. A vulnerability in User Role Editor versions below 4.61 allows attackers to gain administrator rights. At the same time, the attacker needs to have an account… Continue reading Critical vulnerability in User Role Editor plugin
Critical vulnerability in Jetpack plugin
The development team behind the popular Jetpack plugin has released a new version 10.5 that fixes a vulnerability found in previous versions of the plugin. We recommend that all Jetpack users upgrade immediately. Jetpack is one of the most popular plugins for WordPress. It includes a large number of modules, from creating galleries and posting… Continue reading Critical vulnerability in Jetpack plugin
Free Image Compression Plugins for WordPress
Image compression saves disk space, traffic, and speeds up your site for visitors. Below is a list of some useful image compression plugins for WordPress. All mentioned plugins are located in the official WordPress.org directory and are distributed free of charge under the GPL license. Despite this, some of them use external paid services for… Continue reading Free Image Compression Plugins for WordPress
Best free WordPress themes of 2022
Below is a list of the most popular for the month. To rank the list, we used such indicators as the average number of downloads per day, total downloads, theme rating, age, number of active installations, and others. 1. Vogue The simple and stylish Vogue theme has a responsive design and built-in support for popular… Continue reading Best free WordPress themes of 2022
Official WordPress Discourse Plugin
Discourse is an online discussion platform that at first resembles a typical forum but is interactive, fast, simple, and user-friendly. Discourse is free and open source and is used by several popular sites including SitePoint, Linux Forums, Boing Boing, Let’s Encrypt, and others. The platform developers have been working on a plugin for embedding Discourse… Continue reading Official WordPress Discourse Plugin
Pageviews is a simple view counter for WordPress
If you need to display the number of views of your articles on a WordPress site, then the new Pageviews plugin will do just fine – it’s JavaScript-based, supports all caching plugins, and works efficiently even on high traffic sites. Pageviews are far from the first plugin to count and display article views in WordPress.… Continue reading Pageviews is a simple view counter for WordPress
Bento is a Free Multipurpose WordPress Theme
With Bento, we set out to continue to blur the difference between free and premium WordPress themes by creating something that is on par with the largest paid templates and is significantly more feature-rich than most other free themes, yet still freely available to the public. Bento is the culmination of years of experience making… Continue reading Bento is a Free Multipurpose WordPress Theme
Mistape is a free editorial error notification plugin
Minor mistakes or misprints are the pain of anyone who, in one way or another, is faced with writing texts. Deco.agency’s Mistape plugin solves this challenge in the most elegant way. For those who are “in the know”, it’s like Orphus, only much better 🙂 Mistape and Orphus: What’s the Difference? Orphus Orphus does not… Continue reading Mistape is a free editorial error notification plugin
How to Setup a Local Server for WordPress
Creating a workspace for a PHP developer is a long and painstaking job. As a rule, these are hundreds of “hackneyed” actions related to setting up a web server, databases, PHP and its components, caching, mail servers … – the list can be considered endless and two or three applications are definitely not enough. With… Continue reading How to Setup a Local Server for WordPress
Sail: new CLI utility for managing WordPress applications
Sail is a new free CLI utility for creating and managing WordPress applications in the DigitalOcean cloud. This tool is designed for developers and allows you to: Quickly launch WordPress applications under your DigitalOcean account Deploy (and rollback) changes from your local copy of the project to the live site Create and roll back full… Continue reading Sail: new CLI utility for managing WordPress applications