Author: Jean Galea

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.

Articles written by Jean Galea

How to remove billing details from WooCommerce checkout

How to Remove the Billing Details from WooCommerce Checkout

When using WooCommerce, it will by default add a form for your customer to enter their billing details. Now for some cases, you might not want that, for example when purchasing a simple virtual product. Similarly, you might want to disable billing details for free virtual products.

There is no option within WooCommerce to disable the billing details, but there’s a plugin that makes it all very simple.

Research Study Finds 20% of the 50 Most Popular Plugins Vulnerable

In June 2013, Checkmarx’s research labs ran multiple security scans against the source code of the most popular WordPress plugins. The result? More than 20% of the 50 most popular WordPress plugins are vulnerable to common Web attacks, such as SQL Injection. In total, 8 million vulnerable WordPress plugins were

Ticket Sales for WordCamp Europe Now Open

One of the events I’m most looking forward to attending this year is WordCamp Europe, and I’ve just been notified that the tickets are now on sale. WordCamp Europe will be held in Leiden (close to Amsterdam) on the 7th and 8th of October, with a contributor day held on the 9th. I’ve already booked my flights and tickets and I hope to see many of you there too.

Creating Custom WordPress Sliders with Toolset

Many themes come with their own sliders. There are also great plugins that create slides out of anything. Still, in many cases, creating your own slider is the best solution. I’ll show how you can create your own sliders out of any WordPress content and display them anywhere in your site, using Toolset plugins.

How to Remove Menu Items in Admin Depending on User Role

So lets say you open up your blog to guest posters, and you create a user for them, and possibly even a custom role.

You will usually find one or more menu items that you don’t want to show to your guest posters. How do you hide them?

Best hotel and room reservation plugins for WordPress

The Best Hotel Booking Plugins for WordPress

Many hotels, hostels, guesthouses and businesses in the hospitality business are building their website with WordPress. Naturally they will also be looking at ways of incorporating a booking or reservation system into their website.

Here are the best booking plugins for WordPress.

WP Migrate DB Pro Review

Today we have WP Migrate DB Pro under review, a plugin squarely targeted at WordPress developers, with the aim of making our lives easier when moving databases between one WordPress installation and another.

Best restaurant reservation plugins for WordPress

Best Restaurant Reservation Plugins for WordPress

Many restaurants are turning to WordPress to build their website, that’s a fact. But are there any suitable plugins that handle the most important thing for restaurant, accepting reservations? Let’s take a look at what we’ve found.

WordPress Security – An Infographic

Here’s a very interesting infographic I came across today and would like to share with you. It’s about WordPress security, and really puts things in perspective.

Best Plugins to Hide WordPress

A number of plugins are sprouting up, and their sole purpose is to hide the fact that you use WordPress. What’s the reason for doing that?

The number one reason is security. By obscuring your WordPress installation, you protect your site from brute force and mass hacking attempts, where large numbers of URLs are scanned in search for WP installations to attack.