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How to Integrate Stripe With WordPress: Easiest Method for 2025
Accepting payments on your WordPress site doesn't have to be complicated. With Stripe and the WP Full Pay plugin, you can set up a secure, user-friendly payment system in just a few steps. Oh, and did I mention you can do it for free?
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Neve 4.0 ‘Sarmizegetusa’: A Smarter WordPress Theme Experience
Neve 4.0. A smarter, faster way to build exceptional websites that stand out from the crowd.
7 Vulnerabilities Your WordPress Security Plugins Can’t Protect You From (And How to Fix Them Manually)
If you're like many WordPress users then you've probably installed a security plugin to help keep your website safe. This is an excellent first step. It will handle much of your protection, but if you truly care about your site's security then you need to implement some manual changes at the server level. In this tutorial I'll show you how (don't worry, it's not as difficult as it may sound).
If You Could Only Choose 5 WordPress Plugins, What Would They Be?
I recently stumbled upon a Reddit thread that asked a simple but really compelling question. You can see it in the headline: If you could only choose 5 WordPress plugins, which ones would you pick?
WordPress Ticket #30465 Was Opened 10 Years Ago – Is 2025 Going to Be the Year It Finally Gets Resolved?
Back in November 2014, a WordPress developer named Sergej Mueller raised what seemed like a reasonable concern: users had no way of knowing if a plugin they were using had been removed from the official repository - even if it was removed for security reasons. His ticket - officially #30465 - was closed relatively soon after, but with no resolution. Little did Sergej know that it would be reopened almost ten years later.
10 WordPress Influencers Who Made Waves in 2024
If you're a follower of our blog, then you already know that our main niche starts with a Word and ends in a Press. And while there are plenty of noteworthy WordPress stories that made headlines this past year, it's easy to make the argument that this was very much a personality-driven year. Let's take a look at the individuals who had the biggest impact on WordPress in 2024.
Are Block Themes Better Than Classic Themes? Here’s What People Think
Twenty Twenty-Two was the first official default block theme that was released with WordPress 5.9. Ever since then, WordPress aficionados have been going back and forth on whether block themes are better than classic themes or vice versa. I have my own thoughts, which I'll share, but I also reached out to my colleagues and other WordPress professionals to crowdsource some opinions. Here's what I discovered...
“State of the Word 2024” Summarized if You Don’t Have 3 Hours to Watch the Whole Thing
On December 16, 2024, Matt Mullenweg took the stage at Tokyo Node Hall in Tokyo, Japan to deliver the annual State of the Word, offering the WordPress community a clear look at where our platform stands and where it’s heading.