Translation Plugins Ship Language Switcher Blocks
The switcher is no longer a widget that hopes a classic theme still exists. A few vendors built a block that survives a header template part.
August 17, 2026·Sam Calder
Archives: Plugins
Ecommerce Plugins Add Partial Refund Blocks
Store managers can refund a line without leaving the order screen for a gateway tab from 2018. The honest versions log it as a store note.
August 5, 2026·Riley Cho
Form Plugins Race to Ship Native Blocks
The contact-form market is rebuilding itself as blocks. Some of the rebuilds are real products. Some are shortcodes wearing a block wrapper.
August 1, 2026·Sam Calder
Two-Factor Plugins Move Recovery Codes Off Email
Emailing backup codes to the same inbox that just got phished was a tradition. A round of plugins now force a download at enrollment.
July 26, 2026·Sam Calder
SEO Plugins Finally Start Reading Block Markup
Canonical titles and schema are less wrong when the plugin can see the actual blocks on the page. A few vendors got there. Most still parse the classic field.
July 21, 2026·Riley Cho
Plugin Directory Tightens Rules for AI-Generated Submissions
A surge of near-duplicate plugins, many clearly machine-written, is clogging review. New guidelines ask authors to disclose automated generation and to ship something a human could defend.
July 18, 2026·Riley Cho
Redirect Plugins Warn When You Stack Three of Them
A notice when another redirect plugin is already active. Late. Still better than a loop that takes the homepage with it.
July 13, 2026·Riley Cho
Backup Plugins Add Playground as a Restore Target
Restore-to-Playground is a small feature with a large teaching use: show a client the broken site without touching production.
July 4, 2026·Sam Calder
Analytics Plugins Drop Universal Analytics Leftovers
ga.js snippets that survived in ‘just in case’ settings are finally getting deleted. The page weight thanks you. Legal might too.
July 1, 2026·Sam Calder
LMS Plugins Adopt Course as a First-Class Post Type
Less custom-table mystery, more REST, more backups that actually restore lessons. A few of the rebuilds are real.
June 19, 2026·Riley Cho
Membership Plugins Drop the Kitchen-Sink Billing Layer
After a decade of supporting every gateway poorly, several membership tools are going Stripe-only. The forums are loud. The checkout is quieter.
June 18, 2026·Riley Cho
Anti-Spam Plugins Share a Common Honeypot Spec
A small interoperability note so two spam plugins do not both hide a field and both miss it. Forms authors asked. A few vendors answered.
June 7, 2026·Sam Calder
Cache Plugins Warn Against Stacking Page Cache on Guesswork
New notices tell you when a full-page cache and a persistent object cache are fighting. The notice is late. It is still welcome.
June 1, 2026·Sam Calder
Cookie Banners Start Reading Consent from a Single Option
Fewer duplicate banners, fewer scripts that ask twice. The option is boring. That is the point.
May 25, 2026·Riley Cho
Image Optimization Plugins Move the Work to the Edge
Local batch compression is giving way to on-the-fly transforms. That is faster for editors and weirder for anyone who likes files on disk.
May 16, 2026·Riley Cho
Backup Plugins Add Incremental Media Diffs
Uploads that changed since yesterday, not another 40 GB zip. Restore still wants the last full. The daily run gets lighter.
May 14, 2026·Sam Calder
Map Plugins Stop Putting API Keys in the Footer
Keys move to a restricted referrer setup and a server proxy. The ones that still print a key in HTML are now the story.
May 3, 2026·Riley Cho
SMTP Plugins Add App Passwords That Do Not Live in wp-config
A round of mail plugins is storing credentials in a secrets API instead of a define() that gets committed to git. About time.
May 2, 2026·Riley Cho
