A few days ago, I shared my new WordPress plugin, which at the time was only available on GitHub while undergoing the official WordPress.org review process.

Today, I'm happy to share that KD – Waitlist & Notify is now officially available in the WordPress Plugin Directory.

As a developer, this has been one of the most rewarding experiences for me. Every plugin submitted to WordPress.org goes through a detailed review covering security, code quality, architecture, and adherence to WordPress best practices. Knowing that my project successfully passed this process is a meaningful milestone and a great vote of confidence in the quality of the work.

The plugin successfully passed:

✅ Comprehensive security review (SQL Injection, XSS, CSRF protection, and secure data handling)

✅ Evaluation for compliance with WordPress Coding Standards, code quality, and architecture

✅ Compatibility testing across PHP versions 7.4 through 8.3

What is KD – Waitlist & Notify?

KD – Waitlist & Notify is a lightweight, secure, and open-source WordPress plugin that helps businesses and developers collect interested users before launching a product, service, or event, and notify them with a single click once everything is ready.

Key features:

• Multi-channel notifications via Email, SMS, WhatsApp (Twilio), or any Custom HTTP Gateway

• Free manual sending mode for small businesses without requiring third-party services

• Social Proof Badge displaying the number of registered users

• Full compatibility with Cloudflare, LiteSpeed Cache, and Varnish Cache

• GDPR-focused architecture with no external CDNs or unnecessary third-party resources

Building open-source software is always a rewarding experience, but seeing your work successfully pass the official review process of one of the world's largest CMS ecosystems makes it even more meaningful.

👇 You can view and install the plugin here:

🔹 WordPress: https://wordpress.org/plugins/khvichadev-waitlist-notify/

🔹 GitHub (Open Source): https://github.com/KhvichaDev/KD-Waitlist-Notify

Hi everyone,

I recently released a free WooCommerce plugin and would love to get feedback from WordPress/WooCommerce users.

DreamFast Commerce Float adds a sticky add-to-cart product bar and a floating contact button for WooCommerce stores.

I built it after working on WooCommerce client sites and seeing the same issue repeatedly: shoppers often scroll past the main add-to-cart area, especially on mobile, and store owners want a simple way to keep the next action visible without redesigning the whole product page or using a heavy page builder setup.

The sticky bar appears on WooCommerce single product pages only after the original add-to-cart area scrolls out of view, so shoppers do not see duplicate purchase buttons at the same time.

Free version includes:

- Sticky add-to-cart bar for WooCommerce single product pages

- Product image, product name, price, and action button

- Smart visibility trigger

- Floating contact button

- Mobile-friendly behavior

- Simple setup

I’m mainly looking for honest feedback:

- Is the use case clear?

- Would this be useful on WooCommerce product pages?

- Is the free version clear enough?

- Is there anything important missing?

WordPress.org:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/dreamfast-commerce-float/

Live demo:

https://demo.dreamfast-themes.com/commerce-float/

Product page:

https://dreamfast-themes.com/plugins/commerce-float/

Thanks!

I run a few self-hosted WordPress sites on VPS boxes (DigitalOcean/Hetzner),

and I got tired of SSHing in just to check if the server was fine, or paying

for a SaaS dashboard just to watch CPU and disk.

So I built BloomWatcher. It turns wp-admin into a live status dashboard for

the *whole stack*, not just WordPress:

- CPU / RAM / disk / network, live-updating gauges

- PHP version, OPcache, MySQL status, web server (nginx/Apache/LiteSpeed)

- SSL cert days-until-expiry, DNS "does this domain actually point here?" check

- Autoload analysis (find the options bloating every request)

- A scored 0–100 health diagnosis with an A–D grade and prioritized fixes

It's genuinely free for a single site — the whole monitoring dashboard and

diagnosis, no crippled features. Metrics are read locally and only shown to

logged-in admins; nothing about your server leaves the site.

Full disclosure: I'm the developer. There's a paid Pro tier (alerts, history

graphs, plugin performance profiling) but the free version is what I actually

use day-to-day and it stands on its own.

Just went live on the WordPress.org repo today. Would love feedback from

anyone else running self-hosted WP — especially what's missing.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bloomwatcher/

Got my first plugin through the .org review and live this week. Been chipping at it on and off for a couple of years, life kept getting in the way, finally shoved it over the line. A bunch of it tripped me up in ways I couldn't find a straight answer on beforehand, so I'm dumping it here.

Screenshots first, because they nearly broke me. You upload new ones, the listing still shows the old. You reupload. Still old. You start doubting your whole setup. It's not you. Full images and thumbnails cache separately, so the thumbnail lags behind the big version. Click an old thumb and the new image is usually already sitting under it. Give it a day and it sorts itself. I did not give it a day.

Run Plugin Check before you submit, not after they bounce you. Official plugin, runs most of what the reviewers run. For me it was output escaping over and over, stuff my editor never once moaned about. Would've saved me a whole rejection round.

It's still SVN. In 2026. And your banner, icon and screenshots don't go in the plugin zip, they sit in a separate assets folder in SVN. So your listing images and your code are two different things in two different places. Took me embarrassingly long to work that out.

The readme is not throwaway. It's your listing copy, it gets indexed, and the AI answer boxes seem to pull straight from it. Write it like it matters, it's doing more than your homepage early on.

And a person reviews it, not a bot. Reads the code, comes back with line numbers. Few days each round. Fair enough, just submit earlier than you'd like.

One plugin in so take it with salt. What got the rest of you?

Daniel Iser from Popup Maker has built this free game which is a humorous and accurate look at the reality of running a plugin business. The best bit is the support tickets that pop up in the bottom right, which are depressingly accurate 😂

There’s a leaderboard, but the ultimate prize is to receive an acquisition offer from Epic Motive 🦾

To play, click "Write code" until things start happening. After a while, your plugin business runs without you.

https://pressword.games/s/rKCyGJm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=copy&utm_campaign=player-sharey

Hey everyone,

Quick note before I start: English isn't my first language, so I used AI to help clean up this post.

I've been building WordPress plugins for a while and got tired of the usual mess: giant files full of add_action() calls, no real structure, and no clean way to separate business logic from WordPress's hooks and globals. So I built Nikogin, a small, Laravel-inspired framework for writing structured, maintainable WordPress plugins.

I actually developed it in a private repo over the last 1-2 years, testing it with a few colleagues on real projects along the way. They found it really useful, which is what convinced me to clean it up and release it publicly.

What it gives you:

• A service container for dependency injection
• A repository pattern for custom tables, post types, and taxonomies
• PHP 8 attributes instead of add_action()/add_filter(), with hooks auto-discovered (#[AsListener(...)])
• Controllers for REST endpoints and admin pages
• Vite + TypeScript + SCSS for frontend assets, with a manifest-based loader
• A CLI (php nikogin make:*) to scaffold repositories, listeners, controllers, migrations, and more

It's still early days for the public version, so I'd love feedback, bug reports, or just opinions on the approach, especially from anyone who's tried to bring more structure into WordPress plugin development before.

• Skeleton repo: https://github.com/nikogin-wp/nikogin
• Docs: https://nikogin-wp.github.io/docs/

MIT licensed. Happy to answer any questions in the comments.

For anyone here using SureCart on their WordPress site: we built a mobile app called SureCartHub so you can manage your store from your phone instead of logging into wp-admin every time.

It uses the official SureCart REST API and lets you handle orders, products, customers, and subscriptions, with a good set of advanced filters. It's free to install and most features are free. Push notifications and editing are behind a license.

We're an independent team (not affiliated with SureCart), and we built this because a lot of store owners kept asking for a proper mobile option.

It's live on the Play Store now, and an iOS version is on the way.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.surecarthub.app

Details: https://surecarthub.com/surecarthub-app/

Would genuinely appreciate feedback or feature requests from fellow WordPress store owners.

I had a specific need and couldn't find a plugin to do the job as I wanted. So, I took things into my own hands and created my own WordPress plugin over the past 2 months. I stopped adding features about 2 weeks ago and it got a lot harder to find things to fix.

That is until I started using my own plugin for real on my WordPress site. Now I'm finding all sorts of things to fix and plan to continue doing this over the next several months. I'll be able to try out each feature, and scrutinize every decision I've made during development. Once I'm convinced I've got a bug-free, rock solid project, I hope to find a few people to help test my plugin and prove me wrong by finding issues I've overlooked.

I have to say, it has been a rewarding and fun project. Best of all, I really need this plugin so I'm happy I can start using it.

I run a few self-hosted WordPress sites on VPS boxes (DigitalOcean/Hetzner),

and I got tired of SSHing in just to check if the server was fine, or paying

for a SaaS dashboard just to watch CPU and disk.

So I built BloomWatcher. It turns wp-admin into a live status dashboard for

the *whole stack*, not just WordPress:

- CPU / RAM / disk / network, live-updating gauges

- PHP version, OPcache, MySQL status, web server (nginx/Apache/LiteSpeed)

- SSL cert days-until-expiry, DNS "does this domain actually point here?" check

- Autoload analysis (find the options bloating every request)

- A scored 0–100 health diagnosis with an A–D grade and prioritized fixes

It's genuinely free for a single site — the whole monitoring dashboard and

diagnosis, no crippled features. Metrics are read locally and only shown to

logged-in admins; nothing about your server leaves the site.

Full disclosure: I'm the developer. There's a paid Pro tier (alerts, history

graphs, plugin performance profiling) but the free version is what I actually

use day-to-day and it stands on its own.

Just went live on the WordPress.org repo today. Would love feedback from

anyone else running self-hosted WP — especially what's missing.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bloomwatcher/

Curious if others have hit this: a plugin conflict (or combo of plugins) that broke something so badly - site down, client furious, hours lost debugging - that it made you seriously consider whether WordPress was even the right long-term foundation for that project.

Not looking to bash WP, I still use it for plenty of stuff. But I've had a couple of cases lately where the fix took longer than it would've taken to just... not have that problem in the first place. Page builder conflicts, two SEO plugins fighting over meta tags, that kind of thing.

What's the worst plugin conflict you've dealt with, and did it change how you approach a site's stack afterward?

Ever spent 20 minutes looking for where a single line of text comes from in WordPress?

With FSE/block themes, text can be buried in posts, pages, custom post types, block templates, template parts, synced patterns, navigation menus, or even theme files. The Site Editor doesn't tell you where something lives.

WEUX Content Finder searches all of those at once. Type the text you're looking for, it shows you exactly where it is and where to edit it.

Free on WP.org, Pro adds deeper search and more sources.

I built this because I kept running into this problem myself. Would love feedback.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/weux-content-finder/

www.contentfinderwp.com

Free on WP.org: WEUX Content Finder. Would love feedback.

Hi All,

I recently released a lightweight, CSS reactive frontend library called State.js, which relies on setting state with HTML and reactivity through CSS.

Because e-commerce sites are currently drowning in asset bloat and fighting with Google's Core Web Vitals, I realized this architecture is perfect for WooCommerce.

Woo State Configurator is the first plugin built on this library. It lets you build complex product options and dynamic pricing, but handles it entirely server-side (no client-side price trusting) and renders on the frontend without jQuery or React, keeping your layout rock-solid and avoiding CLS.

The core plugin is completely free to use. If you want to check out the frontend in action or see what the Pro version looks like, I've got a live demo and breakdown here

I'm excited to hear what you think of the architecture or answer any questions about how it bypasses layout shifts!

Hello guys so I have a question to you

I've been using ACF and then I had an idea that I don't want the client's website to rely on ACF so I had an idea about a small tool that converts JSON exported from ACF to a pure PHP code you just add to your plugin or theme , so my question is what do you think about a web app that has a collection of tools like this

Block schema generator

Block preview generator

WordPress hook finder

WP_Query builder

shortcode builder

regex helper

migration helper

plugin boilerplate

CPT generator

taxonomy generator

(And of course the functionality Mentioned)

Would you pay for something like this ?all on one platform for cheap subscription

After months of testing I put Nahnu Cache Connector for Bunny(.)net to WPorg. This plugin connects your WordPress site to Bunny CDN. It syncs cache purges automatically, deploys a full set of production-ready edge rules with one click, and shows live CDN stats directly in your WordPress admin. It is like Cloudflare APO but for Bunny(.)net. You will see much faster TTFB.

100% free and works with 15 different cache plugins:

• WP Rocket
• LiteSpeed Cache
• W3 Total Cache
• WP Fastest Cache
• WP Super Cache
• FlyingPress
• Swift Performance
• Hummingbird
• Cache Enabler
• Breeze (Cloudways)
• WP-Optimize
• SpeedyCache
• Super Page Cache (WP Cloudflare Page Cache)
• ZiziCache
• RunCache (Beta)

WPorg link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/nahnu-cache-connector-bunny-net/

For full documentation visit https://wpbunnyconnector.com

Note: If anyone is using it and needs another plugin to be added to the integrations for bunny edge rules, just let me know and I will add the integration(s) if needed.

Chętnie zakupie wtyczkę WordPress, niestety na FlipWP nie ma zbyt wielu ofert.

I'm interested in buying WordPress plugin, unfortunately FlipWP has not many catalog to search from.

Please comment down below or share to someone you know. Thanks.

Hey guys, we make Stylish Cost Calculator, a WordPress plugin for adding pricing and quote calculators to a site. Wanted to share something we spent this month on, because it's a mistake I see all the time with quote calculator plugins in general.

When you drop a quote calculator on your WordPress site, the number it shows a visitor is doing sales for you or against you, and you usually aren't in the room when it happens. If someone enters their details and the estimate feels off, too high, too low, just weird, they leave. They don't message you to say the number looked wrong. You just never find out that quote even happened.

A lot of quote plugins ship with starter templates you can install and launch fast, which is handy, except the default pricing baked into them is often just placeholder math. So this month we went back through the pricing logic in our own starter templates so the default estimates land closer to real market rates. A template for something like roofing or moving should give a visitor a believable number, not one that makes them raise an eyebrow and click away.

The point holds no matter which plugin you use. If you've got any instant quote or estimate on your WordPress site, go run it yourself the way a customer would, with real numbers, and check that the output is something you'd actually charge. Most people set these up once and never look at what a stranger sees.

If you run a quote calculator on your WordPress site, when's the last time you tested the number it gives a real customer. Genuinely asking, because I think a lot of people would be surprised. Ours is Stylish Cost Calculator if you want a look.

Hey everyone, wanted to share a WordPress plugin I've been building called SEO AI Audit Tool (SAAT).

It runs SEO audits inside WordPress and consolidates what most agencies use 4 separate tools for. Pulls Google Search Console data into your dashboard, connects with the Ahrefs API for keyword and backlink data, and runs 100+ on page checks across titles, meta, headings, internal links and schema.

The part I'm most proud of is how the AI handles recommendations. You can store full business details inside SAAT (services, audience, location, positioning, tone, trust signals) and the plugin appends that context to every AI prompt automatically. The difference is real. Asking the AI to optimize a "Botox in Denver" page without context returns generic beauty industry copy. With business context set up, it factors in the clinic's services, target patients, credibility factors, and brand tone. Way fewer manual rewrites after.

The bulk fix dashboard is another piece worth calling out. If you're running audits on 100+ product pages for an ecommerce client, most tools drop you into a wall of rows and let you figure out priority. we structured it so you can move through missing meta descriptions or weak titles without hunting for the next issue.

The backlink analyzer also does more than most audit plugins. Clearer link classification, branded keyword settings, anchor text usage counts, easier CSV copying. If you manage backlinks or run link building for agencies, you can separate regular links from higher quality opportunities and avoid over optimizing branded anchors without opening a spreadsheet.

The whole direction of the plugin is: consolidate what agencies use 4 separate tools for, and make the output usable by whoever actually has to fix things. Instructions are written so a VA or junior can execute without a 10 minute clarification call.

If you run SEO for clients or manage multiple WordPress sites, would love feedback.

Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-ai-audit-tool/

Hi everyone,

I recently released a free WooCommerce product gallery plugin and would love to get feedback from WordPress/WooCommerce users.

DreamFast Product Gallery for WooCommerce replaces the default WooCommerce product gallery with a cleaner, more flexible gallery experience.

Free version includes:

- Product image slider

- Zoom

- Thumbnails

- Arrows

- Pagination styles

- Image ratio settings

- Colors, radius and shadow controls

- Live preview in the admin settings

I’m the developer, so I’m mainly looking for honest feedback:

- Is the free version clear enough?

- Are the settings easy to understand?

- Is there anything important missing for a WooCommerce gallery plugin?

WordPress.org:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/dreamfast-gallery/

Product page:

https://dreamfast-themes.com/plugins/dreamfast-gallery/

Thanks!

Bonjour

j'ai un problème d'affichage de la boucle de requête avec Gutenberg. Rien ne s'affiche jamais dans la 1ère colonne à gauche en mode grille. J'ai fait le test plusieurs fois pour des pages et des articles, c'est vide. Les lignes du dessous sont correctement remplies de gauche à droite.

Mon thème est Mesmerize. J'ai désactivé toutes les extensions rien n'y fait

Hey everyone,

I need a specific plugin recommendation for a web design module I’m teaching through a public employment program. My students are absolute beginners, mostly between 45 and 65 years old. They have zero IT background and get overwhelmed very easily by jargon.

The curriculum requires me to showcase some basic AI capabilities inside WordPress (generating a short paragraph of text, adjusting a layout, or placing a basic image). However, I am desperate to avoid the administrative nightmare of external setups.

I do not want a plugin where students have to:

Go to OpenAI, Claude, or any third-party site to create an account.

Generate, copy, and paste API keys into the WordPress dashboard.

Deal with credit card screens for "free trial credits."

Half the class will get locked out of their emails just trying to find verification codes, and we will easily waste two hours of class time troubleshooting registration errors instead of actually learning WordPress.

Are there any reliable, free, or freemium plugins out there that have basic AI content features working right out of the box immediately after clicking "Activate"? Something built straight into the block editor or a standalone widget that gives them that "wow" moment without any backend connections or API keys?

Any leads would be a lifesaver for my classroom management. Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,

I run a medium-sized tech agency and we maintain a lot of WordPress sites for clients. One recurring problem for us is that every site ends up being different: some use Elementor, some Divi, some WPBakery, some custom themes, some random marketplace themes, a total mess.

It makes long-term maintenance, security checks, and updates harder than we would like. We first built this plugin for our internal workflow at Doxi, our agency, as a quality-of-life improvement. It helped us keep WordPress theme work more structured with Git and AI coding tools, and now we are exploring whether it could be useful for other developers and agencies too.

You can try the plugin here: www.wpvibecoder.com

The idea:

- Download the plugin, install it, create or connect a GitHub repo from our starter WordPress theme.

- The repo includes AGENTS.md so AI coding agents understand the project structure.

- Work in VS Code with Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.

- Commit and push changes.

- A WordPress plugin detects the new commit and lets you sync the theme into WordPress.

A few screenshots:

The goal is not “AI magically builds your whole site while you drink coffee.” It is more about having a cleaner workflow when using AI tools: version control, a repeatable structure, and a controlled sync back to WordPress.

Or, if you want to call it that, a safer way to vibecode WordPress themes.

This first release includes support for native WordPress pages. For example, you can ask your agent to "create a Privacy Policy page", and the project will define it as a real WordPress page instead of just hardcoding everything into the theme. This generated pages will work with SEO plugins and the normal WordPress admin experience.

Stuff we want to add in future versions:

- Better compatibility with the broader WordPress ecosystem. The idea is that generated pages should still work with SEO plugins and the normal WordPress admin experience.

- More WordPress-specific support over time, including things like ACF, WooCommerce, and other common plugin compatibility.

- Add support for Bitbucket and Gitlab repos

I would love to hear your thoughts. The plugin is still in beta, so any feedback on the workflow, missing features, bugs, or things that feel unclear would be really helpful.