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Cleaning up WordPress option clutter

Note: this plugin has received a ton of updates since its inception. It’s now been moved to Progress Planner, where the team there (including myself) are develo

Designing plugins to be uninstalled

I feel a particular class of plugins in the WordPress world should be more prominent. Plugins that help you do something, which you then delete when you’re done

Research: WordPress publications misuse tags

This post was migrated to this site in January 2025 when we took down the Fewer Tags project site.

Multi-currency awesomeness with EDD & Cloudflare

We’re getting ready at Emilia Projects (which is the “run our own projects part” of Emilia Capital) to sell our first plugin, the Pro version of Fewer Tags. We

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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