GitHub Actions to keep your WordPress plugin healthy
I absolutely love GitHub Actions and have been using them more and more for several purposes. As I’ve seen on some of the GitHub repositories I’ve been looking
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WordPress needs more dev-rel
The WordPress ecosystem is very good at talking to each other. We do so on platforms like the official WordPress Slack, Post Status, Twitter, and many other pla
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Clickable WhatsApp links
The simple things make life easy. One of them is WhatsApp. And more specifically: customer service through WhatsApp. I love it when companies offer WhatsApp sup
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Good-looking GitHub profile pages
After my blog post about healthy GitHub repositories, I learned that many people didn’t know how to create .github repositories and what you can do with those.
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How to create a healthy GitHub repository
As a result of investing in a fair few companies and getting a lot more requests to invest, I look at GitHub repositories a lot. I often run into GitHub reposit
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Plugin demos with the WordPress playground
For years, plugin developers have been looking for ways to demo their plugins to users. Users don’t read readme.txt files or plugin pages on WordPress.org. They
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Saying goodbye to Marieke at Yoast
Last Friday (June 23rd 2023) we had Marieke‘s goodbye party from Yoast. With that, we’ve both completely stepped out at both Yoast and Newfold Digital, and can
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How to deal with plugin security issues
Dealing with security issues for your WordPress plugin can be hard and even a bit scary, certainly when it’s happening to you for the first time. In this post I
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Gravity Forms notification routing with a lookup table
I had a need for complex routing of notification messages in Gravity Forms. The email could, depending on a dropdown field, go to some 50-60 different recipient
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WordPress’ admin UI needs to be better
The WordPress’ admin UI needs to be drastically improved. It should be improved not just for WordPress core itself, but it should implement a simple and clearly
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Social & Schema images: naming considerations
I’ve been playing a lot with Schema and Social images recently and one thing has become clear: we need better naming of these images and we should probably impr
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Optimize crawling: let’s turn things around!
I wrote about crawl optimization last week, mostly about getting stuff that you don’t want crawled to not be crawled. There’s more to say about that, and I will
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