Every page load makes WordPress reread all autoloaded wp_options rows, even junk from deleted plugins. Check yours with one safe SQL query and clean it up.
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Bob Dunn shares his perspective on open source and the web in the first (official) solo episode of Open Signal.
GiveWP is the most popular fundraising and donation tool on WordPress, powering over $500 million in donations. It integrates with Akismet to ensure that spammy or potentially fraudulent submissions get filtered out. Recently, some Give users saw an unusually high level of false positives on their donation forms: legitimate donation submissions that were being marked…
A look at the impact of AI and bots on the web, emphasizing the decline of human engagement, the challenges for content creators, and the future of digital interaction.
Hi there, After a four-week break — courtesy of a sciatic nerve with strong opinions — I’m happy to be back in by office chair and in your inbox. There is plenty to catch up on. Beyond the updates on the new WordPress and Gutenberg versions, you’ll find stories below from WordPress veterans on migrating…
I know everyone has been waiting to hear what’s been going on behind the scenes, so I’m just going to lay it out: I’ve made an offer to buy Ryan Phelan and Stewart Brand’s houseboat Mirene. People say “the two happiest days of a boaters life is when you buy the boat and sell the…
You have the number. You just need a good way to show it. It might be sitting in a PDF, buried in a spreadsheet, or somewhere in your notes. Turning it into a clean, useful chart can feel like more work than it should. We built an AI chart builder into Visualizer to close that……