On 17 July 2026 WordPress released version 7.0.2, a security update that fixes two vulnerabilities: one critical and one high severity. This is not a routine maintenance update: the critical flaw lets an attacker with no credentials at all run code on the server of a WordPress site with a standard install. If you run […]
A WordPress site isn’t “finished” the day it goes live. It’s a bit like a car: skip the servicing, and sooner or later it breaks down, except with a website, “breaking down” usually means getting hacked, losing Google rankings, or seeing your domain end up on a blacklist. Over the past year, many professionals who […]
WordCamp Europe has officially become a tradition for me. After Turin and Basel over the past two years, I packed my bag again, this time heading to Kraków for #WCEU2026, held from June 4 to 6 at the ICE Kraków Congress Centre. And this edition was special for a reason that had nothing to do […]
Tracking user interactions is the backbone of any serious analytics setup, but some interactions are genuinely hard to capture. One of the trickiest is a form that lives inside an iframe you do not control, hosted on a third-party domain. The standard Google Tag Manager triggers cannot see it, and without a workaround the conversion […]
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the eleventh WordCamp Europe, held from June 13-15, 2024, at the prestigious Lingotto Conference and Exhibition Centre in Turin. This international center, designed by Renzo Piano, was converted from the building that housed Fiat’s first major car factory into a modern venue for conferences and exhibitions. A […]
Creating custom blocks in Gutenberg has become standard practice for WordPress developers and site owners who want real control over how their content looks. You can build blocks from scratch with React, but there is a faster, more maintainable path: using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) to generate custom blocks with PHP. This guide is updated […]
In the realm of modern education, online learning management systems (LMS) have revolutionised the way institutions deliver courses and interact with students. One of the most widely used and respected platforms is Moodle. Moodle provides educators with a versatile and comprehensive toolkit to create, manage, and deliver educational content in a virtual environment. Regularly upgrading […]
I’m a mac user and, as familiar as I am with docker, I have always used local development software for the sake of convenience. In recent months, however, I have switched from MAMP to LocalWp, this software makes it very easy to create a ready and reliable development environment and has a very convenient feature […]
As always we go against the grain and start with the documentation https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/, you can say anything about WordPress but its documentation is certainly well done and a gold mine of information. Having studied the documentation, we can move on to this article. We are going to look at how to create Gutenberg blocks within […]
In writing an article, we found a translation in my native language that was completely different from the original in English. This translation error did not allow me to understand the problem, so let’s go and save a colleague a few minutes. You may be wondering why spend time doing this? If not for the […]