File manager plugins for WordPress hand you a working shell in the browser, which is exactly why they are useful and exactly why they get sites compromised. Grant one to the wrong role and a Subscriber can read wp-config.php. Two…
Most dark mode plugins for WordPress repaint your site at runtime with JavaScript. That works until it meets a logo on a transparent background, a product screenshot, or a brand colour you paid a designer to pick. Then it looks…
To monetize a WordPress blog you need two things: a method that suits your readers, and enough readers to make that method worth running. Most guides only cover the first. This one starts with the second, because it decides whether…
Most two-factor authentication plugins for WordPress still lead with SMS and email codes. Both are now the weakest options on the menu, and NIST’s guidelines say email should not be used for this at all. Passkeys are the thing that…
Search for free WordPress plugins and you get the same twenty names, half of them abandoned and a few that hand you a dashboard you cannot use without a licence key. That is a wasted Saturday. This list is shorter…
Brute force protection plugins have a smaller job than they used to. Most login-guessing traffic hitting your WordPress site should never reach PHP at all. Your CDN or your host should drop it at the edge, before WordPress boots. That…
Most portfolio website themes are sold on how the demo looks, not on how they behave once you drop 60 full-width project photos into them. That is the part that decides whether a client ever sees your work, because a…
Chrome extensions for WordPress are the fastest way to shave five minutes off jobs you do twenty times a day: checking what theme a site runs, grabbing a hex code, hiding the admin bar before a client screenshot. The catch…
Most WordPress geolocation plugins work perfectly on your laptop and then quietly break the moment you switch a page cache on. That single problem decides which plugin you should install, and almost no roundup mentions it. Below are eight tools…