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For years, I used Limit Login Attempts on all my websites to make it harder for potential attackers to brute-force their way into my login page. The original developer discontinued the plugin, which was forked and continued as Limit Login Attempts Reloaded. Over time, the plugin became increasingly intrusive, constantly drawing attention in the WordPress admin area to […]

Every text string for WordPress core, plugins, and themes must be translated if an admin decides to run a non-English website. For the WordPress core and the vast majority of plugins and themes, all strings are initially in (US) English. If someone uses WordPress without any language packs, that’s exactly what you’d see. In most […]

Plenty of solutions are available to announce events on a WordPress website. Some offer sophisticated integrations with external services, others work with plugins like WooCommerce, and some include a whole suite of features like seat booking, barcode check-ins, and more. The plugin we’re featuring today for the KrautPress Advent Calendar does (almost) none of that. Instead, it […]

Anyone building and running a website for personal use will rarely face the need to generate example content. However, those who occasionally build websites for clients or even need to showcase their own plugins or themes are familiar with the issue: content is required, and it should ideally represent what might actually appear on an […]

Honestly? I’m not a big fan of snowfall animations on websites. However, a festive plugin that does exactly that has spontaneously made its way onto our Advent calendar list. This plugin by Felix Arntz is called Snow Fall and is so new that it hasn’t even been added to the official plugin directory on WordPress.org […]

This post is part of our advent of plugins 2024. Anyone maintaining a blog for years, constantly publishing new content, and writing about current events or world affairs may be familiar with the problem: content ages and, after one, three, or perhaps five years, no longer holds the same relevance as it did at the […]

Hello World! This is not really the beginning of the KrautPress Blog—that part was back in 2016—but since it’s all German, I guess many of you might not have had the best of times there. So, let’s consider this a new beginning. We might translate and add some of the most popular content from the German […]