Many plugins add rows to the WordPress options table that are set to auto-load. On old sites where a lot of plugins have been installed/uninstalled there can be orphaned options set that are still being loaded, even when no longer needed. This plugin, named AAA Options Optimizer, helps to address that issue.

Advanced Custom Fields wins the Torque Plugin Madness competition for the third time. Congrats to the ACF team.

Automattic has changed the JetPack Stats feature from free to paid. It is always unhappy when a freemium product claws back features that were free to add them to the pro version. According to Davinder Singh Kainth’s newsletter, the WP Weekly, users are submitting 1 star reviews on WP org in protest.

An interesting list of steps and code for better securing a WordPress site from a WordPress veteran.

When working with WooCommerce we often need some demo data. Katie Keith of Barn2 mentions two sources for Woo demo data sets.

A good article about the relationship between users’ mental models and design patterns.

This tutorial provides a useful breakdown of commands for WP-CLI based site management.

WordPress core – There is a proposal to add the ability to rollback from plugin auto-updates. This looks useful and might encourage the use of the plugin auto-update feature.

Stuart Carbery of the Dollie team asked that I share their announcement about a partnership with Atarim. It looks like a good opportunity for synergy.