Cristian Antohe

WordPress 4.5 “Coleman” was released with a lot of improvements and new features. This release was led by Mike Schroder, backed up by Adam Silverstein as Release Deputy, Mel Choyce as Release Design Lead, and the help of 298 contributors with props in this release. While there is no big ticket item on the list, […]

After several years, our website design was no longer in sync with what we wanted from our brand. It was also built at a time when responsive websites were just becoming mainstream and we never took the time to make sure it looks good on smaller devices. While we wanted to do a redesign for […]

Sometimes you want to begin user registrations in your WordPress site at a particular date and time in the future. Luckily it's simple enough and it requires just a small plugin. There's no UI and you'll have to modify the $open_registration_time variable with your time and hour, but it's as simple as it gets: create […]

With our bbPress forums retired, I wanted to close all topics without having to go in each one of them. While I couldn't find something that did exactly that, I did found this really nice plugin https://github.com/thebrandonallen/bbp-auto-close-topics that automatically close bbPress topics after an admin-specified time period.

An integration with the WordPress Newsletter plugin developed by tribulant.com has been made into the Profile Builder plugin to capture subscribers through registration forms. A new field "Newsletters" is now available in Profile Builder -> Manage Fields, allowing your users to also subscribe to various newsletters offered on your site. It is offered as a […]

There's been a lot of discussion regarding WordPress AMP, particularly in the Advanced WordPress Facebook group. With Accelerated Mobile Pages, Google promises instant load times for readers since AMP pages are stripped down of most of the markup and have limited or no javascript scripts loaded. Some of the questions involved errors with existing WP […]

Free and easy to use WordPress membership plugins are not a myth. Finding and getting started with them is simpler then you might think. Often website owners require visitors to sign up and become members of their platform before allowing access to the content. The solutions for WordPress users are a variety of membership plugins […]

WordPress 4.4 “Clifford” (named for jazz musician Clifford Brown) was released with over 2,000 contributions by 471 contributors. That's the largest number of contributors to a point release by far. Here's the short launch video for this version. As you can see, there are a lot of great things in this release like: REST API […]

Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Automattic recently announced a new interface for WordPress.com called Calypso. You can now manage your blogs, publish and edit posts as well as read other people articles all from a new look and feel. This is great, however, what's truly remarkable is the fact that the new interface is written […]

Sometimes, finding the right WordPress membership plugin can cause issues even for experienced developers. "A really steep learning curve" "Could not figure out how to set access levels" "Paid for the premium and got half ass support" "After activating this plugin, the speed of my site dropped dramatically" "Not developer friendly" These is all real […]