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A month ago a new customer introduced me to Social Warfare. No, this isn’t a type of fight club where abducted bloggers are taken to and forced to smack each other about until only one survivor exists, though that would be fun to watch. This is a WordPress social sharing plugin. Update March 2019: We … Read more
Monarch from Elegant Themes is one of my favourite WordPress social media plugins. It can automatically display social buttons above or below content, in widget areas, in pop-ups, in flyins and in a floating bar. For such a well rounded plugin Monarch lacks one important feature: a shortcode to use to manually add social share … Read more
The upgrade to Genesis 2.4.0 causes some sites to enter into a redirection loop that prevents access to the admin pages. There is a simple fix that takes less than 5 minutes to implement. The Upgrade Problem After upgrade to Genesis 2.4.0 you find the dashboard is inaccessible because of a redirect loop. The page … Read more
WordPress Runscript is a free WordPress plugin built by VR51 to make WordPress plugin and theme installation quick and easy. Batch install plugins and themes from predefined lists, deploy plugin and theme zip packages uploaded with WP Runscript or configure your own lists and deployment packages. Install WP Runscript into WordPress, activate the plugin then … Read more
If you use WordPress 4.4.x and suffer unexpected missing pages or see the White Screen of Death when you save plugin settings then you are affected by this bug. The wp_termmeta table was introduced in WordPress 4.4. Many sites failed to install the table on upgrade. This is how to install the missing table.
Not one developer who is active in the WordPress community lives a day without reading and hearing remarks from WordPress users and web developers who heard from a friend who heard it from a friend who got it on good authority that “Plugins are bad. They make WordPress slow”. These are the same wannabe WordPress … Read more