This weekend, I’ve dedicated to resurrecting a few more plugins which were withering away without updates between 5-7 years!
These plugins are Disable User Gravatar, Localhost Notify, Cursor Trail
Read MoreThis weekend, I’ve dedicated to resurrecting a few more plugins which were withering away without updates between 5-7 years!
These plugins are Disable User Gravatar, Localhost Notify, Cursor Trail
Read MoreI’ve just released a new update for Meta Tag Manager, a complete rewrite and bump up to version 2.0.
This was my first ever plugin to be submitted to the WordPress repository over 7 years ago! Back in the day, there weren’t any (or none I found) plugins that would allow you to add meta tags to your site. This was somewhat a pain for me whenever I needed to add google or yahoo verification meta tags to connect to their webmaster tools. Sure, you can edit the theme header, but that presented problems when updating the theme and was also just less convenient overall.
Over the years, other plugins came out that served my purposes, and in other cases I just verified my sites over DNS. As other plugins took up more of my time, this one fell by the wayside, and it has been four years since my last update!
Read MoreThis is a pretty simple plugin and probably as useless as they get!
This was inspired by David Walsh’s MooTools implementation. Check out his demo to see functionality, it’s the same thing except you can control the fade speed and cursor image, as long with start/end dates for special occasions.
Activate it for Valentines Day for a special surprise, if that’s today you’ll know what I mean 🙂
Read MoreWhen choosing WordPress plugins, you need to keep in mind that these are open source, therefore each plugin is maintained by someone for free, so some plugins are made by people that aren’t experienced coders (which may result in the plugin preventing your site from loading), or may not have time or resources to maintain the plugin to keep up with new WordPress releases.
This becomes especially important when considering the crucial and complex plugins that make your site work the way you need, as finding a replacement in the future may be prove to be much more laborious than doing a little due diligence beforehand. Imagine, for example, if your photo gallery stopped working when you upgrade to the latest version of WordPress!
Due to this, it’s important to take certain things into consideration when choosing a plugin, and if keep these in mind you’ll probably find that your selected plugins get updated with the new WP releases and are regularly improved. There’s lots of factors that you need to consider when choosing a plugin. Below are some of the major things to think about:
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