11 October 2021
In this example, the update is blocked for Akismet and Classic Editor, but it can be used with any plugin. Don’t do this unless you have no alternatives. /** * Block some plugins from updating * * @param array $parsed_args * @param string $url * * @return array * @throws...⇢
01 September 2021
It’s amazing how pretty much all the plugins I’ve tried to get a newsletter on WordPress, even the one I’ve used for a while, are basically a kind of cancer: invasive in the admin interface, billions of mostly useless options, a bunch of additional tables on the database (one of...⇢
04 October 2020
For work, I often write plugins for WordPress that I have never been able to use or show publicly, for obvious reasons. Since May 2013, I have been planning to write a plugin to distribute through the directory of WordPress. I started writing it and created a repository on GitHub...⇢
09 January 2016
A bit of history in numbers on this blog, which this year will turn 12. All in all, even last year it didn’t go very badly, considering that I wrote much less than the previous year. The desire to write this year is less than last year, but never say...⇢
27 September 2014
I started to try some plugins to generate newsletters. There are some very nice and very good, but what I was looking for is a plugin that simply sends you an email when there is a new post. Then it occurred to me that there is a Jetpack module that...⇢
08 September 2014
It’s been 7 months, and the insane idea of developing a WordPress plugin proved to be really insane, mostly because the idea I had in mind clashed with the impossibility of using a database that was a bit the heart of the idea. So 7 months have passed without putting...⇢
05 September 2014
Immediately released in both English and Italian, the latest version of WordPress has just arrived, and then for me the usual round of updates on blogs that I manage directly, about a dozen. I must say that the news that I like most is the display of the media on...⇢
02 September 2014
There are some Jetpack modules that I appreciate and use, in particular I find Monitor very useful to know if there is something wrong with your site. Lately, however, I had a small problem: when a post was shared automatically on Facebook, I did not see the image that I...⇢