Category: Plugins

Use Git to Test & Update Your Plugins for WordPress 4.2

So, you get an email like this one every time WordPress publishes a new release. 4.2 just went out, so I got this email a few days ago. I’m not a serious plugin developer like most out there. They aren’t premium plugins;...

Releasing Plugin Updates and Handling Security Vulnerabilities

In my last article, I walked you through getting your plugin up and running on the WordPress.org plugin repository. In this follow up article I want to talk about releasing updates and new versions of your plugin. I will also touch on the...

Making Developer-Friendly Themes and Plugins

As every newbie knows, when you’re starting out it’s much easier to download or purchase a theme or plugin than to make your own. However, as you grow into WordPress, you find these ‘commercial’ themes/plugins cumbersome to edit or extend. In this...

How to Submit a Plugin to the WordPress Repository

The WordPress.org Plugin Repository is the canonical location to find plugins for WordPress. There are many good reasons to add your plugin to this repository–the primary being that the built-in “Add New Plugin” search capabilities are linked directly to the WordPress.org repository....

WDS Github Releases for March 2015

Every month, WDS releases a bunch of goodies over on Github (and occasionally WordPress.org and elsewhere). While we typically share the links on our social media, we know that it’s easy for things to get lost in the noise, so we will...

Use CMB2 to Create a New Post Submission Form

Here at WebDevStudios, we try to use CMB2 for pretty much anything form or field related. We do this for several reasons: It saves us time. It’s a framework that handles a lot of the nitty-gritty for us (creating markup, handling sanitizing,...

Using MailPoet to Power Subscriptions & Newsletters

With all the options available today for sending out newsletters and allowing visitors to subscribe to your content, choosing one can be daunting. MailPoet cuts through all the headaches and makes the pain go away by providing a neat solution that is...

Filtering WordPress Form Data with Gravity Forms

WordPress filters are used to modify data before being rendered to the browser or saved to the database, and WordPress plugins typically provide filters to modify plugin behavior. Gravity forms is an extremely powerful form plugin that has many filters available. These...