• Introducing Captain Hook for WordPress

    One of WordPress’s greatest strengths is its massive plugin ecosystem. As a team that builds bespoke solutions for clients, we often find ourselves working with plugins that either get us 90% of the way toward a feature request, or end up providing more features than we need, leaving us wanting to disable some. Or, perhaps,…

  • Customize or create? Core thoughts on core blocks

    As developers, we’re often asked to implement features that would be slight variations on features that already exist in WordPress core. Since building things is our forte, it can be reflexive to start from scratch, but that isn’t always the best route, and it can cost you precious time and resources. In fact, there’s a…

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    Mythbusting continued: WordPress security

    WordPress itself is fundamentally secure and extremely stable. The vast majority of security issues with WordPress sites are caused by avoidable errors: failing to update WordPress core, using unvetted plugins, and using insecure passwords.