Overnight, Simple History went from being one of the best FOSS WordPress plugins ever written to spammy adware. Here’s a clean version.
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Akismet Black Friday 2023 Offer: Bait and Switch?
Automattic should improve their ethics and when they put a service on sale it should be the full service and not 1/10th of the service.
Worst Save Routine in Christendom: MarsEdit
The most important single task of a developer is to protect a user’s work from accidental deletion. MarsEdit doesn’t do this.
OpenWeb.com values: the future of the internet is all spam all the time
These cross platform censorship machines (OpenWeb, Meta) are designed to promote groupthink and suppress real communication.
MarsEdit 5 Review for Markdown writers
MarsEdit 5 is still a bear to set up. When it’s finally working, it’s a fantastic tool for writing and to post to WordPress.2
Automated WordPress Redirections tested with John Godley’s Redirection Plugin
A publisher can safely use both Redirection plugin (required for site migrations) *and* built-in WordPress automatic redirection.
How to improve Ajax pagination in WordPress
WordPress posts pagination does not work properly if you stay on the page for longer. The last article on the page might appear on the second page again if a new article was published in the meantime.
WordPress 6.2 breaks many sites and plugins: here’s how to repair the damage
WP HTTP no longer sets HTTP referrer and MySQL escaping picks up new strings.
How to troubleshoot a WordPress membership website
The goal of these steps is to solve issues fast and ensure that troubleshooting causes as little pain as possible to the publisher.
How to Show Recently Watched Videos with Elementor
FV Player can be used to show videos which the user has started watching right in your Elementor theme.
Safe upgrades for WordPress versions 3.7 through 4.0
WordPress is dropping security updates for versions pre-4.0. What if you want to move to a version before 5.8? With our BusinessPress you can.
Simpler Caching System for WordPress: Surge
Surge promises to take the complexity out of caching with zero configuration, off-loading the heavy lifting to Linux kernel page cache.
GDPR Plugins for WordPress: No Good Options
There’s a lot of room in the GDPR space for an independent developer who creates a lightweight and easy to configure privacy plugin.
WordPress Drag and Drop Hierarchical Page Management
All three plugins are free. None of them have a pro version and are thus are hopefully free of nagware. Let’s test them against 800 pages.
How to setup fail2ban for WordPress with CDN
The key is to configure fail2ban to use `DROP` with iptables instead of just `REJECT`. REJECT allows the IP to keep using an open connection.
New Feature for BusinessPress: Fail2Ban for WordPress Hack Attempts
A great place to hunt hackers is in the WordPress search field. Hackers like to search with what should be forbidden terms in WordPress search.
DuckDuckGo: No Tracking, No Search Bias?
DuckDuckGo is no doubt the most popular privacy focused search engine. Does it live up to its fame and how independent are the results.
Create Any Kind Of Video Subscription Model Easily
With the Restrict Content membership levels integration , FV Player makes it easy to sell subscriptions to courses, creators, or special bundles.
The Most Private Search Engine
What do we pay for having any information “freely” just a single click away? Search engines are privacy nightmares; the way out is inconclusive.
How to publish full size images in WordPress
There are two choices to disable the default nanny function which limits image size in Wordpress to 2560px. There’s no GUI but here’s how to do it.
