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  • Open letter to the WordPress Plugins Review Team

    Dear WordPress Plugin Volunteers, I am writing to you today to express my sincere gratitude and admiration for your hard work and dedication in reviewing new plugins and ensuring the security of WordPress websites. I have personal experience both side of the above, security review of a legacy plugin and submissions of new plugins. The […]

  • WordPress Plugin Developers and Escaping late

    One major difficulty with passing WordPress org security reviews is escaping late. I wrote this article based on my experience of hardening the plugins I adopted. What does this mean? It means applying a function around any data that is output at the time of output that removes any risky output. What is risky output? […]

  • Activating Jetpack Modules

    It seems Jetpack has a mind of its own deciding what modules to activate by default, especially on a localhost install where you can’t connect to their servers. I wanted to test their default Contact Form against my Anti Spam but was having difficultly trying to understand why it was not active. After going down […]

  • Use OpenAI ChatGPT to generate Descriptions for WooCommerce

    This morning I got distracted by a tweet where someone mentioned perhaps someone’ is building an AI descriptions plugin for WooCommerce. So I thought well it’ll only take an hour and so I built one. It actually took a bit longer because I’m not a WooCommerce developer so I needed to find out where the […]

  • Becoming a WordPress developer

    I’m often ask how can someone become a WordPress developer. Without being glib I’ll outline some generic steps. WordPress is a popular and widely-used content management system that powers millions of websites and blogs around the world. As a result, there is a growing demand for skilled WordPress developers who can build and maintain WordPress […]

  • PHPCodesniffer and WordPress

    PHP_CodeSniffer (PHPCS) is a tool for checking code quality in PHP. It can be used to ensure that your code follows a given coding standard, such as the WordPress Coding Standards. It can also be used to detect syntax errors and other issues in your code. To use PHPCS in WordPress development, you will need […]