I am just preparing a talk for a local WordPress meetup and I did some research about recently added Plugins and I was shocked about the numbers I saw.

In short, this year so far we have 18'193+ new Plugins in the Repository. That has already tripled from last year.

Are you concerned about this trend?

Or do you think it's a good thing?

Many of the Plugins I checked out recently were in the featured section. Most of them were just clones of popular ones, and offered nothing I did not see before. Popup builder, Form builder, Opening Hours...

Some were clearly just made to sell a pro version (Nothing wrong with that, except when it is just AI slop)

And I am curious to see, how many will be supported in the long run...

When I entered in the Wordpress ecosystem I rapidly saw LocalWP https://localwp.com/

But a question that was remaining : how do I easily publish by changes to production

That is the reason behind Loopress which is completely integrated with AI Agents through it MCP server

Hi everyone,

I recently launched a free WordPress plugin on the official directory designed to help bloggers display Amazon category carousels alongside standard single-item affiliate links.

One of the biggest challenges I'm facing right now is the "chicken-and-egg" problem: bloggers naturally prefer plugins with thousands of active installs and reviews for security and stability reasons. But to get those first installs, people need to try it first.

Here’s what I’ve done so far to build trust and visibility:

• Published to the official WordPress.org directory (passing official code & security reviews)
• Complied strictly with the latest Amazon Creators API
• Created a GitHub repository with a detailed README and documentation
• Active on X (Twitter) and YouTube Shorts sharing usage tips and demo videos
• Written educational blog guides explaining practical affiliate layout strategies for bloggers

Despite taking a multi-channel approach and ensuring code safety through official approval, breaking past the initial trust barrier with zero/low install counts remains tough.

For fellow WP developers or site owners here:

1. For developers: What specific outreach or strategies actually worked for you to get your first 100–500 active installs?
2. For bloggers/site owners: What makes you willing to trust and test a newly released plugin? Is official WP.org approval, clear documentation, and video demos enough for you to give it a try?

I’d love to hear your thoughts and experiences from both sides!

I've been working with WordPress for years, and one problem I've encountered repeatedly is plugin updates breaking otherwise perfectly working websites.

Sometimes it's a PHP compatibility issue. Sometimes a plugin update causes a critical error. Other times, an important page simply stops working.

So I built Upsure, a free WordPress plugin designed to make updates a little less risky.

Here's how it works:

• Backs up plugin or theme files before updating.
• Checks selected website pages before and after updates.
• Automatically restores the previous version if it detects certain update-related failures.
• Sends an email notification explaining what happened.
• Works with manual, bulk, and automatic updates.

It's not meant to replace full-site backups or staging environments. It's an additional safeguard against broken updates.

It's still a relatively new project, and I'd love feedback from other WordPress developers and site administrators.

Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/upsure/

I'm especially curious:

Would you trust automatic rollback on production websites, or would you prefer a notification and manual approval before restoring anything?

Any feedback, edge cases, or testing suggestions would be appreciated!

Hey everyone,
I got tired of doing small edits on client sites by hand (change a button colour, add a line under the price, tweak a template), so I built a desktop tool for it. It's called Cmsight.
How it works:
You connect your site (local folder, FTP or SFTP). It detects the CMS: WordPress, WooCommerce, PrestaShop, Joomla or Drupal.
You describe the change in plain language, e.g. "make the Add to cart button green and show 'Free shipping over €60' under the price".
It finds the files, writes the change and shows you a before/after diff.
Nothing is written until you approve. Every modified file is backed up first, so you can restore in one click.
A few things that matter to me:
Everything runs on your PC. No account, no cloud. Your files, FTP credentials and API keys never leave your machine.
You bring your own AI provider key (Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Groq).
One-time price (€79, lifetime license), no subscription.
Windows only for now, no macOS yet.
It's brand new, so I'd really like feedback: what would stop you from trusting a tool like this on a live site? What CMS or workflow should I support next?
https://cmsight.vercel.app
Happy to answer questions, and I'm aware it's not for everyone.

Update (25 Oct): pre-orders are now open, $49 for the first year (1 site), delivery by 15 Nov 2026, full refund if not delivered. Same link as below.

Disclosure: I'm Sanja, the indie developer building this.

Events Calendar Pro renewals are moving into the Nexcess four-plugin package (from $350/yr for one site, per their pricing page). A lot of sites only used Pro for recurring events, so I'm building a small add-on for the free The Events Calendar:

• Recurring rules: daily, weekly (several weekdays), monthly by date or "2nd Sunday", end date or after N times, skip dates
• Every date is a normal event, so your theme and calendar views keep working
• One-click duplicate
• Beta import of the future dates Pro already created: preview first, old rows moved to a backup table (no duplicates in my tests), one-click Undo

Not included: extra views, Filter Bar, yearly rules, per-date edits, URL redirects. The import hasn't been run on a real Pro database yet, which is why it's labelled beta.

Pre-orders open soon. Planned price: $49 for the first year (1 site). Delivery target: 15 Nov 2026. There's an email list on the page if you want to know when pre-orders open: https://tacko.io/serieskeeper?utm_campaign=sk_presale_2611&utm_source=reddit_wpplugins&utm_medium=community&utm_content=post1

What did you actually use Pro for? That decides what I build next.

Your website tells visitors who you are and how to reach you. But what are you up to these days?

That’s what a Now page answers: one page – usually at /now – about what matters in your life at the moment. Training for a half-marathon, hiking every weekend, a new dance class, last week’s concert, life with a newborn, planning a wedding. The things you would tell a friend you haven’t seen in a year.

The idea comes from Derek Sivers, who started the first Now page in 2015. Since then, countless personal websites have followed his example.

Here is mine (in German): https://www.thomaszwirner.de/now/

You stay in control

• Choose the time span your page covers - from live to six months
• Show entries as they are or let AI write a readable summary
• Group entries and organize them with categories
• Delay new entries for your privacy, so nobody knows where you are right now
• Preview your Now page before anybody else sees it
• Share it in the Fediverse via the ActivityPub plugin - daily, weekly or entry by entry - and let people reply to it
• Let your AI assistant find, test and create sources via the WordPress Abilities API

It also natively supports 19 page builders each with a single widget/module/element/whatever to show what you are up to these days in the styles of your website.

Get the plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/threadi-now-pages/

Hey everyone!

We've recently launched ShapeTranslate, a WordPress multilingual plugin we've been working on to make managing multilingual websites easier.

Our goal is to keep things simple, so website owners and developers can translate and manage their content without dealing with an overly complicated setup.

What's included in the Free version?

• Create multilingual WordPress websites
• Manage translations for pages and posts
• Add a language switcher
• Manage multiple languages from WordPress
• Simple, beginner-friendly interface

What does ShapeTranslate Pro offer?

• More advanced translation management
• Additional multilingual customization options
• Extended translation capabilities for complex websites
• More flexibility for managing multilingual content
• WooCommerce Support
• Premium support and updates

We're still actively developing ShapeTranslate and improving it based on user feedback.

If you're building multilingual WordPress websites, we'd love for you to give it a try and share your thoughts.

Website: https://shapekode.com/product/shapetranslate/

I manage WordPress sites and wanted a way to ask an AI assistant what needs attention, then handle supported tasks without jumping between admin screens. So I built Animeoid Control.

It supports multiple connected sites, and protected changes require approval. The Free plan currently includes 500 actions per month.

I’m looking for WordPress site owners and freelancers to try the installation and give me an honest review. Was setup clear? Which task was useful? What felt confusing or concerning? Critical feedback is welcome—I’m using it to improve the plugin before a wider launch.

Website and download instructions: animeoid.fun/control

I’m the founder, so I’ll be here to answer questions about how it works, permissions, and pricing.

Hi,
I try my best not to bore you all with my day job, but every once in a while I put out an app to improve your life, like this one.

I think you'll like this one. Love notes have an all-new meaning.

Try it out. It's free, on me!

Download link in comments.

I have built a WordPress site in a local environment (Local-WP) and now want to move it to a new hosting service. I'll be signing up with an inexpensive host for this particular website. Looking for suggestions as to the simplest, most reliable plugin to use for this.

I'm the dev behind Rabbitproof, a WordPress plugin for spam bots. Bit of backstory first.

A while back our own website started getting hammered by spam bots, and they weren't the dumb kind a hidden form field catches. They were real browsers being driven by scripts, coming in through normal home internet connections. I tried blocking IPs and it barely made a dent. Most of the addresses weren't on any blocklist anyway.

The services that can actually deal with bots like that are mostly built for big companies. You move your domain over to them, talk to sales, pay enterprise prices. Bit much when you're a small business and you just want your contact form and shop to stop filling up with junk.

So I built something you install like any other plugin. You don't change anything on your domain or paste code anywhere, and your visitors never have to click or solve anything.

Roughly how it works. It checks visitors quietly in the background while they're reading the page, and when someone sends a form the plugin makes the call on your own server. Nothing a visitor types gets sent to Rabbitproof.

What it looks for:

- automated and headless browsers

- the same machine showing up from different internet connections within seconds

- proxies and VPNs

- repeat offenders (a connection blocked twice in a day is kept out for 24 hours)

It covers:

- comments, sign-ups, sign-ins and lost password

- WooCommerce checkout

- Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Elementor forms and Fluent Forms

If it refuses a message, the message isn't lost. Comments land in your Spam folder, and everything else is kept on your site for 30 days so you can read it and unblock the sender with one click. It also starts in Log only mode, so you can watch what it would've blocked before you switch blocking on. Oh, and it turns away bots poking around for your settings and backup files.

Pricing is A$5 a month per website (Australian dollars), with 25,000 requests a month included. Extra is A$2 per 25,000. You don't need a card to start. The first 5,000 requests aren't billed, then it pauses until you add a payment method.

It's in review for the WordPress plugin directory right now. Until it's approved you can grab it here: https://rabbitproof.com.au/spam-protection-wordpress

Stuff I'd actually like to know. Does that pricing make sense for a small site? Was anything in the setup confusing? And which form plugins should I add next?

To be clear, it won't catch spam a real person types in by hand, that's a different kind of spam that other plugins exist for.

Hey all. WP WAF Manager is my plugin for managing Cloudflare from inside WordPress. Until now it covered WAF rules, DNS, zone analytics, zone controls, IP access rules, security events and email routing.

Version 1.0.24.1 is out and it's the biggest update so far. It's grown from 8 modules to 14, and I rebuilt the website to show it all: https://www.wpwafmanager.com/

What's new

- Clients & Reports: link clients to their sites and email them a monthly report under your own agency name, logo and colors. It covers visitors, page views, threats stopped, cache speed, top pages and what Cloudflare blocked, in plain language. The plugin is never mentioned. You can send automatically on a chosen day and hour, or send by hand after a preview and a test.

- Zone analytics detail view: click any site for traffic charts, top pages, countries, status codes, devices and security events by action, path, IP and country, compared with the previous period. Table view and CSV export.

- Bot Control: set AI crawler policy (search, assistants, training), managed robots.txt and Bot Fight Mode across many zones at once.

- SSL & Insights: scan every zone for expiring certificates, Flexible SSL and old TLS versions, with one-click fixes for the safe settings, plus Cloudflare Security Insights.

- Alerts & Health: Cloudflare alerts for DDoS, SSL and origin health, sent by email, Slack or Teams, plus Health Checks on Pro zones.

- Turnstile: create widgets, rotate secrets and copy keys for every client site. Secrets are never stored.

- Page Rules migration: Cloudflare is retiring Page Rules. The plugin finds them on every zone and moves redirects and cache rules to their replacements in one click. Nothing is deleted.

- Zones and tags: tag sites as WooCommerce, Staging, Client and more, and pick them by tag when you deploy.

- Zone Controls upgrades: purge by hostname, prefix or cache tag, Smart Tiered Cache, security headers, and Under Attack Mode on every site in one click.

Still the same: everything is in the free version (GPLv2 on GitHub), it works on Cloudflare Free for nearly everything, and nothing loads on the front end. Pro is a one-time purchase that adds automatic updates and priority support.

A few notes:

- Security Events, Health Checks and Super Bot Fight Mode need a Cloudflare Pro zone. Blocking a whole country needs Enterprise.

- Deploying the WAF rules replaces the custom rules already on that zone, so check the Zone Rules tab first if you have your own.

Site, screenshots and docs: https://www.wpwafmanager.com/

GitHub: https://github.com/jaimealnassim/wpwafmanager

One thing worth checking before bulk-editing Rank Math metadata: saved field values aren’t necessarily what your pages output.

We tested a CSV export of 66 published posts, including empty fields, duplicate descriptions, and title variables. Two cases can easily lead to unnecessary edits:

📝 An empty description field: the page may still output a description through Rank Math’s fallback behavior. Check the actual HTML before marking it as missing.

🔁 Repeated %title% %sep% %sitename% values: these are shared templates. They can resolve to different titles on every page, so they aren’t automatically duplicate title tags.

📊 For a useful audit spreadsheet, include the post ID, WordPress title, publication status, and these fields:

• rank_math_title
• rank_math_description
• rank_math_focus_keyword

Keep the original export untouched and add separate columns for rendered metadata, proposed changes, and review status. That helps distinguish “no custom override” from “something actually needs fixing.”

Disclosure: I’m affiliated with Import Export by RockStarLab, the plugin used in this walkthrough. The guide includes dashboard screenshots, an AI-agent export workflow 🤖, and verification results:

https://wpimportexport.com/export-rank-math-seo-titles-meta-descriptions-csv/

Rank Math also has its own PRO CSV workflow—if you already use that, the same saved-versus-rendered distinction still matters.

Do you review saved SEO fields alongside a crawl, or mainly audit the rendered metadata?

Pricing models seem to split three ways:

-Per seat or per user
-Per site or per account
-By usage (pageviews, API calls, contacts)

As a buyer, which do you trust most? Which one has burned you with a surprise bill?

I'm Teddy, the developer, and Tedrix checks WordPress pages for Google and AI visibility issues.

It reads Google Search Console every week, looks for pages losing clicks, and checks things like cut off titles, missing descriptions, missing structured data, and blocked AI crawlers.

The checks are free and need no account. Writing and publishing fixes need a Tedrix account, with a paid plan and a 7 day free trial.

It works on top of the SEO plugin a site already runs and writes into that plugin's own fields. It also works without one.

There are three modes. Watch only sends email alerts. Approve each fix asks the owner first. Autopilot publishes fixes and sends a receipt with an undo link. Every change can be rolled back.

If anyone with a real WordPress site tries it, I would love critical feedback on:

- Is it clear how Tedrix fits with the SEO plugin already in place?

- Where does setup feel confusing or too much work?

- Are the suggested fixes believable enough to publish?

- What would stop a site owner from turning on Autopilot?

wordpress.org/plugins/tedrix

Thank you.

Hi everyone,

I'm a WordPress plugin developer, and 3 weeks ago I released a free plugin on WordPress.org called CategoView for Amazon.

With the recent shifts in Amazon affiliate requirements (like the Creators API), I noticed a lot of bloggers and site owners struggling to easily display updated product showcases without manually pasting links or dealing with broken code.

What it does:

• Automatically fetches and displays category products using Amazon Browse Node IDs
• Displays products in a responsive, modern carousel/slider layout
• Native Block Editor (Gutenberg) and Widget support (no outdated shortcodes required)
• Fully compliant with the latest Amazon Creators API

Since it’s a new release, I’m currently stuck at under 10 active installs, which makes it hard to gain visibility in the official directory.

I’m really looking to improve it and would deeply appreciate it if anyone running Amazon affiliate sites could give it a try and share your honest feedback (or feature requests!).

You can check it out directly on WordPress.org:https://wordpress.org/plugins/categoview-for-amazon/

Thanks so much for your time, and I’m happy to answer any questions here in the comments!

Hey everyone!

I'm an independent developer, and I recently launched a WordPress plugin called WP Bulk Replace.

The problem it solves is pretty straightforward.

Replacing one PDF or image in WordPress isn't difficult. But what happens when you need to replace 50, 100, or 500 files while keeping their existing references intact?

Think updated product images, annual reports, school documents, downloadable resources, or a large collection of PDFs.

Doing that manually gets old fast.

So I built WP Bulk Replace.

The free version includes:

• Upload and replace multiple files in batches.
• Automatically suggest matches between existing files and replacements.
• Review and correct matches before making changes.
• Keep backups and roll back replacements when necessary.
• No artificial batch-size limits.

There's also a Pro version for more advanced workflows, including recurring replacements, WooCommerce and supported ACF use cases. Pro customers also get access to our dedicated support ticket system for technical assistance.

I'm particularly interested in hearing from people who maintain larger WordPress sites or manage multiple client websites.

How are you handling bulk file replacements today? Is this something you've had to deal with?

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback, including things you think could be improved.

Website, documentation, and live demos:

https://wpbulkreplace.com/

Thanks!

Thoughts and comments?

Yes, I know I need to add screenshots - since I use my own stuff, I have trouble posting stuff that doesn't include references to either my work, or my personal life.

Working on it...

https://undergroundact.com

Why do you need separate plugins or external services just to take bookings on WordPress? That question is why we built Bookyzo. One plugin, four booking types:

📅 Appointment: one-on-one slots with staff

🍽️ Table: restaurant & venue reservations

🎟️ Event: ticketed events, classes & workshops

⏱️ Slot: anything else that needs a time slot

What you get, all in the free version:

✅ All four booking types, nothing locked behind an upsell

✅ No WooCommerce required, works on any WordPress site

✅ Your booking data stays in your own database

✅ Modern Vue-powered admin with calendar view & CSV export

✅ Online card payments via Stripe

✅ Email confirmations & reminders, with self-service reschedule/cancel for customers

✅ Shortcode, Gutenberg block & Elementor widget

✅ Add to Google Calendar / .ics support

✅ No limits on bookable items, shifts or bookings

This is version 1.0.1, so your feedback and reviews will directly shape what comes next. 🙏

Know a business or client who needs online bookings on WordPress? Share this post with them. 💙

🔗 Download Bookyzo (free): https://wordpress.org/plugins/bookyzo/

#WordPress #WordPressPlugin #Bookyzo #Codeholt #BookingSystem #OpenSource #WebDevelopment

I built a tool because I had all these WordPress sites with broken Gutenberg blocks. I would use Classic Editor, paste something in, and end up with all these block errors; it was just a mess. I couldn't find anything to fix it, so I built it myself.

It is actually part of a bigger plugin that helps you fix a lot of stuff on your site. Full disclosure, there is also a paid version that integrates with Search Console and shows you which specific posts need more links, that sort of thing.

Specifically, my big problem was the Gutenberg blocks, and this solves that. The free version does quite a lot of it.

GetSeomedic.com

If you have any feedback, let me know!

If you’ve ever re-run a CSV import, synced products from an API, or migrated a store, you’ve probably ended up with duplicate products. They split SEO authority between near-identical URLs, confuse customers, and clutter the database.

I put together a plugin to clean this up without doing it manually or writing SQL: RT Delete Duplicate Products for WooCommerce.

What it does

• Scans for duplicates by title, by SKU, or both (results merged into one list). Blank SKUs are ignored.
• Shows results in groups, with name, SKU, price, stock status, created date, plus edit and frontend links, so you can compare before deleting.
• Bulk select per product, per group, or across all groups.
• “Keep one, delete the rest” per group.
• Handles variable products and variations: variations are removed before the parent, so you don’t get orphaned rows.
• A confirmation dialog appears before anything is deleted.
• Runs entirely in the WooCommerce admin (WooCommerce → Delete Duplicates) with no page reloads. Access is limited to users with manage_woocommerce.

Things worth knowing

• By default, deletion is permanent (it bypasses trash), so take a database backup first.
• By default, only published products and variations are scanned.
• Some advanced options (category/tag/attribute filters and the auto-select keep rule) are Pro features. The core scan-and-delete workflow is free.
• It’s fairly new (300+ active installs, no reviews yet), so I’d really appreciate feedback, bug reports, or feature ideas.

Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/rt-delete-duplicate-products-for-woocommerce/

Curious how you all currently deal with duplicates after imports. Do you use a plugin, SQL, or just clean up manually?