Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and writer. He is the founder of WP Mayor, and the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight. He also runs the Good Life Collective. Connect with him on X or visit jeangalea.com.
Some websites need to serve different content to people depending on the country or geographic location they sign in from. Usually we associate something like this with multilingual considerations, but it’s not always the case. Sometimes the same language is used throughout, but the content served is different.
Lets see what plugins can help us out to achieve these aims.
I’ve had a couple of cases where I downloaded a plugin, then needed to make some modifications and disable updating to make sure those changes are not overwritten when the next version came out. Ever wondered how plugin updates can be disabled? Here’s how to do it.
The readme.txt file is an essential file when submitting plugins to the WordPress.org repository.
There is an excellent article on Smashing Magazine which highlights all the important things you need to know when creating a readme.txt file.
When you’re ready and want to preview how the file will look into the repository, you can use this tool.
If you’re creating a WordPress plugin or theme for distribution outside the .org repository, one of the best things you can do is implement auto updates. Here are a few ways of making that work.
Last week I switched to Help Scout for handling support of my premium plugins. I’m totally in love with their service, I did quite a bit of research before choosing them, and they were the only ones to tick all my boxes.
I’d love some feedback from other plugin and theme developers though, what support system are you using?
Cron runs a lot of useful functions in the background for us, but WordPress Cron can sometimes be limiting for us. So here are a few plugins that help take cron to the next level and make things easier to manage.
If you want to import RSS feeds from other sites and insert them into your WordPress sites as blog posts or even other custom post types, I suggest you use the WP RSS Aggregator plugin together with the powerful Pro Plan’s Feed to Post feature.
When writing in a blog, it’s always better to include images and thus make your articles more attention-grabbing. Here are some plugins which make things easier for you.
Three years ago, I launched WP Mayor. I wanted to create a good blog about WordPress, but things went way beyond that and I’m very thankful to be celebrating the 3rd birthday of this site.
I want to thank all the regular readers and contributors, as well as the many WordPress plugin developers and service providers who have worked with us throughout the year as we strive to lead WP users to the best resources.
Unsafe passwords are a major cause of WordPress being hacked, so lets see what plugins can help us out in this department. Here are the ones I use on my sites.
I recently moved over one of my most important sites to SiteGround from its previous location at a shared host. SiteGround are a hosting company that’s been established for more than 9 years now, they are based in Bulgaria and offer shared hosting, cloud hosting and dedicated servers.
One of the reasons I moved to SiteGround was that I met their team at WordCamp Europe in Leiden earlier this year. They left a lasting impression of me and immediately came across as a fun, knowledgeable and passionate bunch, focused on supplying a great service and keeping their customers satisfied.
The WordPress dashboard tends to be cluttered with widgets you and your users might not want. You might also want to set different widgets per role.
Here’s the solution: Dashboard Commander