Wordpress Plugin
A WordPress plugin is software that extends the functionality of your WordPress site. Whether you’re looking to improve performance, optimize SEO, add custom features, or integrate with third-party services, plugins make it easy to customize your site without touching core code. With thousands of plugins available, it can be overwhelming to know where to start or how to build one yourself.
Explore our latest articles on Martech Zone to discover powerful plugins that can transform your site, along with practical guides on building, customizing, and managing your WordPress plugins. Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned developer, these resources will help you unlock the full potential of your WordPress installation.
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WordPress: Best Practices for Worry-Free Backups and Restoration
When backing up your WordPress site, it’s essential to follow best practices to ensure the safety and integrity of your data. While numerous plugins are available for backing up the CMS, it’s crucial to understand the importance of not relying solely on local backups. Local backups stored on the same server as your WordPress installation can be problematic in various…
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WordPress: Ajax Search Pro Provides Live Search Results With Autocomplete
Navigating a website and finding the needed information quickly and efficiently can often be a frustrating experience for users. With the vast amount of content available online, users expect instant, relevant, and accurate internal search results. Websites that fail to meet these expectations may see increased bounce rates and decreased user engagement, which can impact overall sales and marketing efforts.…
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WordPress: How to List Child Pages Using A Shortcode
We’ve rebuilt the hierarchy of sites for several of our WordPress clients, and one of the things we attempt to do is organize the information efficiently. To achieve this, we often want to create a master page that includes a menu automatically listing the pages below it, a list of child pages, or subpages. Unfortunately, WordPress does not have an…
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GTranslate: A Simple WordPress Translation Plugin Using Google Translate
I’ve hesitated to use machine translations of my site in the past. I’d love to have translators all over the planet to assist in translating my site for different audiences, but there’s no way I would recoup those costs. That said, I noticed that my site content is shared internationally quite a bit – and many people are using Google…
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Depicter: A Full-Featured, Lightweight, and SEO-Friendly WordPress Slider
When sliders are utilized well, they provide a unique online experience. Sliders allow designers to showcase multiple images or content pieces in a visually appealing and dynamic manner. The movement and transitions of the slider catch users’ attention and make the website more engaging. Sliders are handy when a webpage has limited space to display multiple pieces of information or…
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The Best Social Sharing Button Plugin for WordPress
One of our clients called this morning and mentioned that whenever they attempted to write a Facebook update and share a link to their site, the update didn’t show the social sharing image we’d provided. I did some tests this morning, and on the desktop browser, it appeared to work fine, but the mobile app inserted a link with no…
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iThemes Security Pro: The Essential WordPress Security Plugin for Self-Hosted Websites
WordPress is a popular and widely used platform for building websites, but its popularity also makes it a prime target for hackers. A colleague of mine recently told me how a client on his server installed a malicious plugin that infected every WordPress instance on his server. After he spent hours cleaning out the malware, he launched the sites and…
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WordPress: Fight Registration Bot Spam On Your Site With hCaptcha
As with many WordPress sites, Martech Zone is open to anyone registering. I don’t want to shut down open registration, as I’ve welcomed hundreds of contributors and partners to the site. However, having an open registration form on the site has invited thousands (I’m not kidding) of bots to register accounts to publish malware and spam articles. A bot that…
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Formidable: Disable Form Submissions From Human Form Spammers On Your WordPress Site
By far, one of the best decisions I made was to include an hCaptcha on my forms and to purchase the paid version of CleanTalk to end the automated form spam bots. It’s worked. On a daily basis, the plugin blocks over 20 to 30 form bot submissions. But that doesn’t mean that all spam has been halted, though. On…
