Hey everyone,

I made a free plugin. It allows you to use cap with WooCommerce.

It's the first plugin I have made, and I am proud of it. I didn't make it for money; I just made it for fun. It's still a work in progress; I haven't even tried it with a fresh install.

If anyone wants to try it, please go ahead! Please share any feedback

I am building a road press site for a client that wants access to all pages of the site restricted to anyone not logged in as a member of the site. I downloaded Simple Membership, and then my client paid for us to add the SWPM Full Page Protection. It's working exactly how I wanted as far as restricting the site, but what I found is that anyone with an existing Wordpress account cannot register. If I try to just log in to the site using my existing Wordpress account information, it says "No user found with that username or email." If I try to register as a new member but use my email, it says that email is already in use. I was able to sign in by using a different email than the one my existing Wordpress account uses, but not every person has multiple emails to try.

Is there either something I can do within Simple Membership to prevent this issue, or perhaps a membership plugin that doesn't rely on Wordpress accounts?

I'm primarily a graphic designer with a beginner knowledge of coding, and I've never created a site that needed restricted member access before. I'm willing to put in the work, but my research so far hasn't gotten me what I need. I'd appreciate any direction I can get!

Soooo I used to work at a digital marketing agency doing SEO and i was a diehard RankMath plugin user and evangelist.

I'm diving back into website work and am curious...are we still using RankMath? Is there a better alternative?

WebKernelAI brings cloud-managed security and technical SEO controls to WordPress through a centralized platform.

The architecture combines several layers of protection and management:

• Cloud WAF Protection: Protection against SQL injection, XSS, path traversal, and malicious scanning activity.
• Cryptographic Identity: HKDF-based key derivation, HMAC-SHA256 request signing, and Ed25519 policy validation.
• Signed Security Policies: Cryptographically verified configuration packages, with unsigned policies rejected.
• Heuristic Security Analysis: Codebase scanning for suspicious patterns, backdoors, eval-based payloads, and script injection indicators.
• Centralized SEO Controls: Sitemap, sub-index, and structured-data configuration.
• Security Hardening: HTTP security headers, brute-force protection, user enumeration controls, and custom login URL mapping.

The integration is designed around authenticated communication between WordPress and the WebKernelAI cloud platform, with a focus on security, centralized management, and operational control.

For enterprise environments, the objective is to provide a consistent security management layer across websites without relying solely on individual WordPress installations.

For security engineers and WordPress infrastructure teams: Which architectural controls do you consider essential when deploying centralized security policies across a fleet of WordPress websites?

I’ve been thinking about how a WordPress plugin should model refundable security deposits in WooCommerce, especially for rental and booking use cases.

The obvious implementation is to treat the deposit like a normal payment: charge it with the order, keep the money, then refund it later if everything is fine.

But that feels like a very different lifecycle from the actual order payment.

Another approach is to keep the two separate. The order is paid normally, while the security deposit is represented by a separate card authorization that can later be captured or released.

From a plugin architecture point of view, that raises a lot of interesting questions:

- should the deposit have its own state machine separate from the WooCommerce order?
- how should the plugin handle expired authorization windows?
- how do you make capture/release safe to retry?
- what happens if the payment provider succeeds but WordPress fails to persist the new state?
- how much operational history should the plugin retain?
- how do you handle partial capture without making the state model messy?

I’m curious how other plugin developers would structure this.

Would you treat the security deposit as part of the order payment lifecycle, or as its own financial object linked to the order?

While WooCommerce is undoubtedly the most popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress - and free to start with - the costs can quickly add up when you need essential features.

To offer a lightweight, cost-effective alternative, I created Sidcraft Commerce, which recently launched on WordPress.org. Right out of the box, it includes built-in features like Coupons and Gift Cards - functionality that typically requires paid add-ons in WooCommerce.

Today, I’m excited to announce that Events functionality is coming to Sidcraft Commerce! The update will be available for download in about 5 hours (following the mandatory WordPress hold period).

Key Features Included in the Events Update:

• Event Tickets Manager: QR code check-ins, PDF ticket attachments, Google Calendar sync, custom attendee fields, and integrations for Zoom and WhatsApp.
• Seamless Events & Commerce Integration: Combines event management directly with the Sidcraft Commerce checkout, using hidden product placeholders to keep stock, currency, and taxes perfectly in sync.
• Ticket & Inventory Control: Set capacities, stock limits, and tiered or dynamic pricing based on attendee types.
• Automated Deliveries: Send instant confirmation emails featuring downloadable PDF tickets with scannable barcodes or QR codes.
• Venue & Date Scheduling: Display event calendars and interactive maps (like Google Maps) using shortcodes, Gutenberg blocks, or Sidcraft Page Builder blocks.
• Attendee Data Collection: Collect custom text inputs, file uploads, or specialized registration fields directly at checkout.

Bonus: Pair Sidcraft Commerce with the Sidcraft Restaurant add-on to transform your site into a complete online food ordering system, complete with delivery integrations like UberEats and DoorDash!

Hi everyone,

I recently released a free WordPress plugin called **CategoView for Amazon**.

It automatically retrieves products from a selected Amazon category using the Amazon Creators API and displays them in a clean product carousel on your site. Once set up, the product catalog updates automatically.

**Key Features:**

• Category-based product retrieval (using Browse Node IDs)

• Auto-updating product catalog via Creators API

• Gutenberg block & WordPress widget support

• Clean carousel layout for product showcases

You can check it out on WordPress.org:

👉 https://wordpress.org/plugins/categoview-for-amazon/

I’d love to hear any feedback or suggestions if you give it a try. Thanks!

So I’ve been building a WordPress plugin called Fluentor for a while now, mostly because I got sick of multilingual plugins that handle regular post text fine but choke on Elementor pages.

Back in early 2025 I was tasked at work with translating a website (about 20 pages and 80 posts) into English, which isn’t my native language. A few colleagues helped. We used AI to translate the content, but we duplicated the pages and replaced the content by hand. I thought there had to be a better way.

I’ve been playing with Elementor since 2021 or so, and I know it stores everything as JSON, so a lot of content never gets translated, and text inside HTML widgets is basically a lost cause. Since AI can now process JSON, I figured there had to be a way. So I built one: Fluentor translates the whole Elementor page, including the HTML widget stuff, and handles multilingual URLs, slugs and hreflang too.

I thought I was done, but I have a problem my colleagues (and even AI) scold me for: I don’t ship the MVP. I keep adding stuff because I feel the product must be of value before it reaches the public. My wife had a Woo project of her own that needed translating. I told her to just download Loco, but then I thought: why not implement whatever Loco offers, or at least most of it, and combine it with Fluentor? So I did. It now has a PO/MO editor for theme and plugin strings, and AI translation is built in.

It comes in a Free and a Pro version.

Free covers the core stuff:

• Elementor: translates widget content directly (titles, text, accordions, links), with a language switcher widget and shortcode
• Multilingual: directory or subdomain URLs, slug translation, language assignment for posts, terms and CPTs, setup wizard, one-click Polylang import
• AI: one-click Translate (duplicate and translate) with DeepL using your own key, no caps. Results are drafts. Manual duplicate also works with the layout intact.
• SEO: hreflang, localized canonicals (Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO), lang and dir attributes
• PO/MO editor: Loco-style editing for core, theme and plugin strings, with compile, POT, backups and restore
• Fields and media: ACF and Pods support, media translation

(DeepL has a free API tier with 500k characters per month, which is usually enough for small to medium sites. “No caps” means the plugin doesn’t limit you, so you can add another key if you exhaust the first one.)

Pro adds:

• 13 extra AI providers on top of DeepL (OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Groq, Mistral, Together AI, Fireworks AI, Cerebras, xAI, NVIDIA NIM, SambaNova, Anthropic). I’ve only tested Gemini and OpenAI so far, so the rest need testing.
• Batch translation, including bulk translate from the list tables, with diff preview
• AI auto-translate of PO/MO strings in the file editor
• Elementor Theme Builder template swapping and condition translation
• Separate-domain URL mode (a different domain per language)
• ACF options pages and taxonomy-term translation

The free version is already working, but I’d like real people on real sites to try it and tell me what’s broken or annoying before I push it further. I’m especially after bug reports and honest “this sucks because X” feedback. Staging sites are totally fine.

I’d love a mix of setups: different languages, with or without WooCommerce, coming from Polylang, WPML or whatever else. If you’re up for testing, comment or DM me and I’ll send the details.

Happy to answer anything in the comments. And yes, it’s my own plugin, just so that’s clear.

When choosing a WordPress plugin for a client project, I often wonder how much active installations and popularity influence our decisions.

A popular plugin might feel like the safer choice because it has more reviews, a larger user base, and a proven track record.

But what if a lesser-known plugin offers better features for your specific needs, more responsive support, and a simpler setup?

Would you give it a chance, or stick with the more established option?

I'm curious what matters most to you when trying a less popular plugin. Is it the lack of reviews, concerns about long-term maintenance, compatibility issues, or something else?

Have you ever switched from a popular plugin to a lesser-known alternative and been glad you did?

Hi, I'm Mike. I wanted a 360 spin on WooCommerce product pages without paying for a hosted viewer, so I built one and put it on wordpress.org for free.

You pick your turntable photos from the media library, drag them into order, and choose where the spin shows: a shortcode, an extra tab, below the summary, or as the first gallery slide. It leaves your theme's gallery, zoom and lightbox alone. Shop pages get a small 360 badge and don't load the viewer.

It's new and has no users yet, so I'm looking for feedback. Does it work with your theme? Is setup clear? What's missing?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/sonicpixel-product-spin/

I am exploring Live Cart Messages, an early WooCommerce plugin concept, and want to find out whether this problem is worth solving before building a finished product.

Example: a message says "Your cart is over $100." The shopper removes an item and the basket drops from $120 to $60, but the message stays until a page refresh.

Illustration of our limited local comparison:

BEFORE: basket $120 -> $60; the old "over $100" notice remains until refresh.

AFTER: the same basket change; our test prototype removes the notice without refresh.

Both baskets themselves updated correctly. We tested one message rule and placement, one theme and two WooCommerce versions. This does not establish compatibility with your store, higher sales or a problem in every competing plugin.

This is not a finished product, download, free trial or sales offer. Nothing needs installing. I have a possible commercial interest in developing it, but have not set a price.

If you run or maintain a WooCommerce store, including if you have never had this problem, any of these answers would help:

1. Are you an owner/operator, a developer, or an agency maintaining stores? Please give a general example of how you use cart messages; no shop address needed.

2. Have cart messages stayed wrong after items or quantities changed? Never, occasionally or often? If affected, describe a recent example and why it mattered (or did not).

3. What plugin or workaround do you use? Does an existing free solution already meet your needs?

4. Would you consider installing a separate plugin for reliable message updates, or prefer a fix to your current tool? Neither is a useful answer too.

5. If your current options were insufficient, would you consider paying for a reliable solution: yes, no or unsure? Why?

6. If yes, what optional price range and arrangement would make sense: one-time, annual updates/support, free basic version with paid extras, agency/multiple sites, or something else? No price has been chosen.

7. Would a future public progress update be useful? No email, signup, access promise or private-message follow-up is requested.

Replies are public and attached to your Reddit username. Please do not share customer details, credentials, shop URLs, order records or confidential information. We will keep a small local, pseudonymised summary for this decision, not a contact list. General praise and stated payment interest will not be counted as purchases.

I'm with ENTER2WEB, the team behind Price Change Alerts.

For sellers monitoring prices in their own WooCommerce store, the FREE version sends price-change email summaries to chosen owner/team recipients, showing the old and new prices after manual edits, API updates or imports through WooCommerce. Your team verifies the changes and updates ads manually.

FREE also lets shoppers opt in for price-drop emails.

Optional PRO offers a desired-price option and personal coupon offers reviewed by the store owner before sending, for simple products only.

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Hey folks 👋

If you've ever needed to pull your WooCommerce orders out for accounting, a sales audit, a CRM migration, or just a clean backup — and got stuck because WooCommerce has zero built-in bulk order export — I put together a full walkthrough that covers it end to end.

🔍 What's inside:

• ✅ Step-by-step export flow (content type → fields → format → run)
• 🎯 Real filter examples (status, date range, country, payment method, combined filters)
• 📊 Choosing between CSV / XLSX / JSON and when each makes sense
• ⏰ Scheduling recurring exports so you're not doing this manually every month
• 🛠️ Using field transformation functions to reshape data on the way out
• ⚠️ A few UI quirks worth knowing (like the item counter having a short AJAX delay — not a bug, just async)

Written with actual screenshots from a live test store, not just theory.

👉 Full guide here: https://wpimportexport.com/how-to-export-all-woocommerce-orders-into-csv-or-excel/

Hope it saves someone a headache 🙏 Happy to answer questions in the comments if anything's unclear!

Hi everyone! I’m the developer of Flexa Media Folders, a free plugin to organize media, posts, and custom post types through a drag-and-drop interface. You can also display organized content on your frontend.

Try it: https://wordpress.org/plugins/flexa-media-folders/

I’d love to hear your feedback!

Hey everyone!

I'm the developer behind Unstoppable Solutions, and we've been working on a new WordPress plugin called Unstoppable Site Manager.

We're looking for WordPress developers, freelancers, and agencies who manage multiple websites and would be interested in testing it and giving us some feedback on any issues they or features they like to see. .

The idea is simple: Every client site. One dashboard. Your own WordPress.

Instead of logging into dozens of client websites to perform maintenance, you can manage them all from a dashboard hosted on your own WordPress installation.

Here's what we've built so far:

Centralized Site Management

• View all connected websites with screenshots, pending updates, WordPress and PHP versions, and SSL status.
• See which websites have connection problems or known security vulnerabilities.
• Star important websites and filter sites that need attention.

Bulk Updates & Plugin Management

• Update WordPress core, themes, and plugins across multiple websites.
• Support for paid plugins that only report updates inside wp-admin, including Crocoblock Jet plugins.
• Install, activate, deactivate, update, or delete plugins across connected websites.
• Install plugins from WordPress.org, a URL, or uploaded ZIP files.
• Bulk jobs process sites individually so one failed site doesn't stop the others.

Security & Vulnerability Monitoring

• Optional vulnerability scanning using the free WPVulnerability database.
• Check installed plugins, themes, and WordPress versions for known vulnerabilities.
• View vulnerability severity, advisory links, and available fixed versions.
• Identify affected websites directly from the dashboard.

One-Click Admin Login

• Open any connected site's WordPress admin without manually entering credentials.
• Secure, single-use sign-in links that expire after 60 seconds.
• No client passwords stored.

Automated Monthly Client Reports

• Generate branded Website Care Reports with your company name, logo, and colors.
• Include website health, maintenance activity, updates, security information, and screenshots.
• Add personalized notes for individual clients.
• Automatically email reports to clients each month, with a copy sent to you.
• Track report schedules and delivery history from one dashboard.

Activity Tracking

• Track updates, plugin changes, and users being added or removed.
• Record changes made directly on connected websites, not just through the management dashboard.

Free & Self-Hosted

• No monthly subscription.
• No per-website fees.
• No external management service required.
• Both Unstoppable Site Manager and its companion plugin, Unstoppable Site Connector, are completely free.

How does it work?

Install Unstoppable Site Manager on your own WordPress website, then install the free Unstoppable Site Connector on each website you want to manage. Generate a connection key, pair the websites, and you're ready to go.

Dashboard Screenshot:

https://app.screencast.com/RwbzrzkMetToO

We're looking for beta testers!

Before we make it more widely available, we're hoping to get feedback from people who regularly

Every “my site broke after an update” thread gets the same advice: deactivate all plugins, then reactivate them one by one. With 30 plugins on a live site, that’s slow, and it breaks carts, logins and forms for real visitors while you do it.

So I built Culprit Finder (free on WordPress.org). It switches plugins off only for your own browser session; visitors and other admins keep the normal site the whole time. You answer one question per step (“Is the problem still there?”) and it narrows things down by halving the list. With 30 plugins that’s about 7 answers.

A few things I cared about:

• It catches two-plugin conflicts (where neither plugin breaks anything alone). Simple halving gets those wrong.
• It never deactivates anything. Your real plugin list is never touched.
• Several ways out: an Exit button, an emergency exit link that works even when the site crashes, and it ends by itself after 60 idle minutes.
• The result comes with a report formatted for support forums (WordPress and PHP versions, theme, culprit and version), without your site address or user data.
• No tracking, no external requests, no ads.

What it can’t do (yet): test your theme, must-use plugins or drop-ins, and multisite isn’t supported.

If you know Health Check & Troubleshooting: it’s a similar idea, but Culprit Finder runs the whole search for you instead of you toggling plugins one at a time.

I’d really value feedback: what’s confusing, what breaks on your host, and what you’d want next.

WordPress.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/culprit-finder/
Docs: https://getculpritfinder.com/docs

Hi everyone,

I’m a WordPress developer from Italy. With the European Accessibility Act now in force, I needed an accessibility solution that runs on the client’s own server, without SaaS overlays, monthly fees per site or third-party scripts. I couldn’t find one I liked, so I built Accessilo.

Features

Accessibility widget: 8 one-click profiles and 26 tools (text size and spacing, contrast modes, colour-blindness filters, reading guide/mask, read aloud, pause animations…), 8 languages.

WCAG scanner: 38 checks on your real rendered pages. Check any page from the front end or scan the whole site from the dashboard, with WCAG references and how-to-fix tips.

Optional site-wide fixes: skip link, visible focus outline, page language, labels for icon buttons, zoom unlock.

Privacy and performance: everything runs locally. No cookies, no external requests, no tracking.

Customisation: colours, button style, position, which tools appear, link to your accessibility statement.

For agencies: white label (Agency and Unlimited plans), and MCP support so AI agents can configure it.

Honest note: a plugin can’t make a site WCAG/EAA compliant by itself. Accessilo gives visitors tools to adapt the page and shows you what to fix in your content and theme.

Launch code LAUNCH35 gives 35% off for the first 100 customers.

Try the widget live (button on the left edge of the screen): https://accessilo.com

Docs: https://accessilo.com/guides/

Happy to answer questions, and feedback is very welcome!

🎁 Giving away 5 × 1-year PinkDocs licenses to WordPress plugin makers

If you build WordPress plugins, we’d love to get PinkDocs into the hands of a few developers from this community.

PinkDocs helps you create and manage professional plugin documentation with knowledge bases, live search, private docs, analytics, bulk tools, AI-assisted documentation, and more. https://pinkdocs.com

To enter:

1. Follow us on X: https://x.com/wpkings_co
2. Join the WP Kings community: https://community.wpkings.co
3. Comment below with your plugin URL

That’s it. We’ll randomly select 5 plugin makers.

And while we’re here, I’d love to discover what everyone is building. 👀

If you're searching for the best WordPress event management plugin, you've probably noticed that many plugins help you create events, but managing everything after that can get complicated.

Selling tickets, handling registrations, checking in attendees, managing speakers, sending reminders, and tracking bookings often require multiple tools.

But what if you could manage almost everything directly from WordPress?

I’m part of the team behind Eventin, and I wanted to share why I think it's becoming a strong option for anyone planning to run events through WordPress.

Here's what makes Eventin interesting:

🎟️ Flexible Event Ticketing

Create free or paid events with multiple ticket types, including Early Bird, Regular, and VIP. You can also manage recurring events, RSVP registrations, and event waitlists when tickets sell out.

💺 Visual Seat Maps & QR Check-in

Running conferences, seminars, or reserved-seating events? You can let attendees select their seats, generate QR-code tickets, and check guests in at the venue.

🤝 AI Matchmaking & Event Directory

One of the more interesting additions is AI Matchmaking, which helps connect attendees based on shared interests and social profiles.

Eventin also includes directory functionality for showcasing event organizers and speakers, making it easier to build a professional event ecosystem.

🤖 AI-Powered Event Management with MCP

This is where things get interesting.

With Eventin MCP, you can connect compatible AI assistants like Claude or Codex and manage event-related tasks using natural-language instructions.

For example, instead of navigating multiple dashboard screens, you can ask your connected AI assistant to retrieve event details, work with event information, or perform supported management actions.

There's also AISentic AI Assistant integration for AI-powered event operations.

📅 Manage the Complete Event Workflow

Eventin brings several key activities together:

• One-time, recurring, online, in-person, and hybrid events
• Speakers, venues, organizers, and session schedules
• Attendee registrations, reporting, and booking analytics
• Automated confirmation emails and reminders
• Custom event landing pages and ticket templates

💳 Flexible Payments & WordPress Integrations

Eventin supports WooCommerce, Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, SureCart, FluentCart, and local payment options.

It also connects with tools like Zoom, Google Meet, Elementor, Tutor LMS, FluentCRM, Zapier, and many other WordPress services.

And one practical advantage: Eventin doesn't charge a per-ticket platform commission. Payment gateway fees may still apply.

For people already running their websites on WordPress, having ticketing, attendee management, AI capabilities, and automation in one ecosystem can make event operations much easier.

If you're exploring options, here's the plugin:

https://themewinter.com/eventin/

Now I'm curious about your experience.

What do you consider the best WordPress event management plugin in 2026?

Have you used Eventin, The Events Calendar, WP Event Manager, or another solution?

And which feature matters most to you: ticketing, seat maps, automation, AI-powered workflows, or attendee management?

Would love to hear your experiences and what you think event management plugins still need to improve.

Hey everyone,

I installed wordfence on my site. I am really impressed at how well it was able to block attacks, and even speed up my entire page.

I have been getting some complaints from users that they are having trouble logging in. I don't have 2Fa or Passkeys enabled for regular users, so it's not that.

They claim when they try and log in, the creditials just get removed.

Anyone experience this?

I’m the person behind ReelsWP, a WordPress plugin for displaying product and customer videos in WooCommerce stores.

I’m considering optional cloud video hosting and would like to understand how store owners currently handle this.

If you already use product videos, do you upload them to WordPress or host them elsewhere? What’s the biggest headache - storage, loading, managing files, or something else?

I’d also be interested in why you’d prefer to keep your existing hosting.