Earlier this year I released a new WordPress plugin called Better Captcha. The main difference with this plugin over the many others, is that it doesn’t use Google’s reCaptcha, which is incredibly popular. Instead it uses hCaptcha which actually pays out in their own cryptocurrency called HMT when people solve the captchas. However, I’ve found that…
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Better Passwords 1.8 released
Last year I released some WordPress plugins for Better Security, including Better Passwords. This is a WordPress plugin that stops the use of a bad passwords, including those in the Have I Been Pwned? breached password database. Whilst the main reason for creating the plugin was to stop a breached password from being re-used, it…
Adding a WordPress admin page
Adding a WordPress admin page in itself is pretty straightforward, and well documented. You do it using the add_menu_page function, something like this… add_menu_page(‘My Page’, ‘My Page’, ‘manage_options’, ‘my-page’, ‘show_my_page’, ”, 1); This function takes the following parameters: Page title (required) – the text to be displayed in the title tags of the page when the…
Disabling WordPress auto-updates
I’ve already written about WordPress auto-updates, a new hotly contested feature of WordPress 5.5. I’ve previously said that the best advice I can give is to make sure that plugins involved in non-critical functionality should probably be set to auto-update, as if the plugin stops working, it’s most likely to only affect that functionality and the loss of…
WordPress auto-updating disabled plugins
A few days ago I wrote about WordPress auto-updates, a new feature made available in WordPress 5.5, and said that generally it was a good idea to enable this, especially for non-critical plugins where functionality is not core to your business. Another scenario has occurred to me though, and that’s disabled plugins, and themes as well. Generally…
WordPress auto-updates
Recently WordPress 5.5 was released and one of the new features that has been rolled out is the ability to auto-update plugins and themes. There are mixed opinions on whether this is really a good thing or not, so here’s my take. Firstly, how you can you enable this functionality? It isn’t enabled out of the…