Aprendiz Reviews is a plugin developed by Víctor Alonso from Aprendiz Seo to create a carousel of customisable reviews that can be added and managed from the admin and displayed with a shortcode[rewievs] anywhere in a post or page or in a widget without relying on external services. If you need a lightweight
At least 4,000,000 pages made with WordPress using the free or paid version of Really Simple Security(formerly Really Simple SSL) were affected by a critical authentication bypass vulnerability. All the details are in this article by István Márton on the Wordfence blog. The vulnerability, already fully fixed in version 9.1.2 of the plugin,
Last month I was optimising a blog with a very common problem. The site had been accumulating images (+40K) for many years without control. They were all poorly or not at all optimised. Many of them had been uploaded in sizes with absolutely disproportionate weights and many others were no longer in use.
This is a scenario that I have encountered more than once when faced with optimising some WordPress installations that had a lot of active plugins and the client didn't want to, or couldn't, do without any of them. If a plugin is well written it should not load anything on those pages where
Every day I like more and more simple and above all light things, and that's how Jeff Starr makes his plugins. A few days ago I was looking for something basic to put a counter in a manual download directory and I remembered Simple Download Counter by Plugin Planet. The plugin supports both
