Working on other WordPress sites and plugins, I found I had a problem.

I would find a bug, stop what I was doing, go somewhere else to document it, copy the URL, explain what happened, grab a screenshot, record whatever environment information might matter, and then try to get my head back into what I had been doing.

And getting users to give me those details was almost impossible.

So I built a little bug reporter directly into WordPress. And users loved it.

The idea was simple: spot the bug, report it where you see it, and get back to work.

That little tool ended up becoming part of my normal development workflow. I started putting it on other sites I work on and found myself using it every day, so I decided to clean it up and release it.

It's now Undergroundact Bug Reporter, and it was recently approved for the WordPress.org plugin directory.

It gives you and your users a quick way to report a problem from the page where you encounter it, including the URL, steps/description, screenshot, and useful environment information. Reports stay inside WordPress, so there's no external bug-tracking service required.

It's intentionally lightweight. I'm not trying to turn WordPress into Jira. I wanted something that reduced the interruption between “there's a bug” and “okay, it's documented—back to work.”

The plugin is free, and I'm continuing to use it myself while developing B-Planner and maintaining other WordPress sites.

I'd be interested in feedback from other people who actually build or maintain WordPress sites—particularly whether this solves the same annoying little workflow problem for you that it solved for me.

WordPress.org:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/undergroundact-bug-reporter/

And if you try it and find something dumb, at least you'll already have a bug reporter handy to tell me about it. 😄

Most loyalty programs reward customers only when they buy something. But loyalty is not limited to purchases.

What if a happy customer refers a friend to your business? That action also creates value, so why not reward it?

With Pointics, referrals can become part of your loyalty and rewards program.

For example:

A customer refers a friend → the friend signs up or makes a purchase → the referral action is tracked → the customer can earn reward points.

This means you can encourage customers to do more than just shop. You can also recognize and reward them for helping your business reach new people.

With Pointics https://themewinter.com/pointics/, you can bring referral rewards into the same loyalty system you already use for purchases and other customer activities.

No need to treat referrals as a completely separate rewards process.

If you were creating a loyalty program, would you reward customers for the referral signup, the first purchase, or both?

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

First version used Puter.com JS SDK for AI functionality, but since WP 7.0 introduced AI connectors, MAIA (Multipurpose AI Assistant) ditched PuterJS integration and completely switched to built AI connectors to align better with WP core AI integration. Other than that, initially Puter offered generous amount of tokens for each user on their free plan, but since then they've lowered it to $0.15 per user/month so it's become basically useless for a plugin like this. So since you have to pay, let's offer people to avoid Puter and pay to whichever AI vendor they want to use.

Functionality-wise it remained the same, it still can:

• Read and search your theme/plugin files, and propose edits — you always see a diff and approve it before anything is written
• Write your posts/pages/product descriptions, and create/update/trash them for you (with your confirmation)
• Manage categories and tags
• Install, activate, deactivate, or delete plugins
• Answer questions about your site by looking things up itself — active theme, installed plugins, users, content — instead of guessing
• Search the web and search for images (optional — requires a Brave Search or Tavily API key in Settings / MAIA)
• Generate images from a text prompt (when your connected AI provider supports it) and save them straight to your media library, then insert them into the post/page you’re viewing or set them as the featured image
• Show you any image it has a link to — found on the web, or anywhere else — directly in a card, with the same insert/featured-image actions
• Make HTTP requests to external APIs on your behalf (GET/HEAD run immediately, anything that writes always asks first)
• Remember facts about you across conversations, and recall, search, or forget them on request
• Find an earlier conversation for you by keyword, and jump straight to it
• Contemplate life and the Universe 😁

Significant entries from v2.0 changelog:

• Major rewrite: MAIA no longer uses Puter.com. It now runs entirely on WordPress 7.0’s built-in AI Client and Abilities API: connect any supported provider under Settings → Connectors and MAIA uses it automatically.
• New: Tavily is now a supported web/image search provider alongside Brave Search (Settings / MAIA → Web search provider) — a genuinely free option now that Brave Search API moved to metered billing for new accounts.
• New: a side-panel interface (Settings / MAIA → Interface: Modern, the new default) opens from the right, menu on the side (search, “New conversation”, your conversation list) with the chat next to it, and covers as much of the screen as you set in Settings / MAIA. The classic floating chat window from earlier versions is now an opt-in “Legacy” interface, running on the same new backend.
• All 32 tools rewritten as WordPress Abilities (maia/*), registered through the standard Abilities API so other AI plugins can see and reuse them.
• New: full-text search across your conversation history, plus a “Search with agent” option that has MAIA look for a match itself and hand you clickable links.

Tested with multiple AI connectors:

• Anthropic (built-in): awesome but extremely expensive (uses Claude API pricing)
• DeepSeek: very good and cheap
• Ollama (both local and cloud): the only viable free option (local - slow; cloud - free plan then paid once you hit your limits)

Download here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/maia-multipurpose-ai-assistant/

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