Category: Plugins

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...

WDS Github Releases for February 2015

Handling AJAX in WordPress in Style

AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) isn’t something that should be feared by anyone. It’s insanely powerful, versatile, and can provide your users cool experiences like processing forms without page redirection, dynamically loading posts while a user scrolls the page, and much more....

CMB2 WordPress Plugin: What is it good for? Absolutely everything!

What happened to Custom Metaboxes and Fields for WordPress? Is this an actual plugin? Do I need to use CMB2 instead? These are a few of the types of questions I get asked when talking about CMB2. I agree–it IS confusing! With...

Checking Plugin Activation Status on Multisite Networks

Recently Chris Reynolds brought up an issue he was experiencing with one of our client projects; he was struggling to compare the current active status for plugins in a multisite network between internal dev servers and a WPEngine staging site so that...