One thing that's really been annoying me lately is the number of plugins that are flooding the WordPress Dashboard with useless and annoying notifications or nags.
What you may not know about the WP REST API
With the release of WordPress 4.7 this week, comes the addition of the WP REST API endpoints for posts, comments, terms, users, meta, and settings. The foundation for the WP REST API has been in core since WP 4.4, and 4.7 sees Part 2 of the REST API Content Endpoints being added.
Building a Membership Site with WooCommerce Memberships
If you've ever tried to build a membership site with WordPress, you're probably already aware of some of the difficulties that this can entail. Thankfully though, there's a new choice on the market and it makes creating membership sites considerably easier. It's called WooCommerce Memberships and it's from the good folk over at WooThemes.
Unlocking a locked Gravity Form
I had an interesting* issue with Gravity Forms today. I needed to check out some settings on a client site, but when I tried to edit the form, or any of the settings pages, such as the Confirmations or Notifications pages, I received a popup notification advising that the form was currently locked. Not only couldn't I edit the form, but I couldn't even view any of the other settings pages either.
Remove Nag after Yoast SEO Plugin Updates
If you run a WordPress website, then you're probably familiar with the Yoast SEO plugin by Joost de Valk. Not only is it a fantastic plugin for helping improve the SEO of your site, it also has some great extra features such as Page Analysis, XML Sitemaps and Social Integration. Whenever you hear people talk about which SEO plugin to use on their site, nine times out of ten people will simply recommend Yoast SEO.