r/WordpressPlugins

Hey everyone, Just launched Addifect after building it for a while. The idea — add live WebGL shader effects to any WordPress site without switching builders or touching your theme. You create your effect in Addifect Studio, deploy it, then drop one line anywhere in your editor: [div data-addifect-block="hero"][/div] Works with Elementor, Divi, Gutenberg, Bricks, any theme. The entire addifect.com is built with my own tool — every effect you see on the page is running live. Free version on wp.org includes shaders to get started. Pro is $29 lifetime founder pricing right now. Would love feedback from anyone who tries it. 🔌 wordpress.org/plugins/addifect 🌐 addifect.com

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Got my first plugin through the .org review and live this week. Been chipping at it on and off for a couple of years, life kept getting in the way, finally shoved it over the line. A bunch of it tripped me up in ways I couldn't find a straight answer on beforehand, so I'm dumping it here.

Screenshots first, because they nearly broke me. You upload new ones, the listing still shows the old. You reupload. Still old. You start doubting your whole setup. It's not you. Full images and thumbnails cache separately, so the thumbnail lags behind the big version. Click an old thumb and the new image is usually already sitting under it. Give it a day and it sorts itself. I did not give it a day.

Run Plugin Check before you submit, not after they bounce you. Official plugin, runs most of what the reviewers run. For me it was output escaping over and over, stuff my editor never once moaned about. Would've saved me a whole rejection round.

It's still SVN. In 2026. And your banner, icon and screenshots don't go in the plugin zip, they sit in a separate assets folder in SVN. So your listing images and your code are two different things in two different places. Took me embarrassingly long to work that out.

The readme is not throwaway. It's your listing copy, it gets indexed, and the AI answer boxes seem to pull straight from it. Write it like it matters, it's doing more than your homepage early on.

And a person reviews it, not a bot. Reads the code, comes back with line numbers. Few days each round. Fair enough, just submit earlier than you'd like.

One plugin in so take it with salt. What got the rest of you?

I had a specific need and couldn't find a plugin to do the job as I wanted. So, I took things into my own hands and created my own WordPress plugin over the past 2 months. I stopped adding features about 2 weeks ago and it got a lot harder to find things to fix.

That is until I started using my own plugin for real on my WordPress site. Now I'm finding all sorts of things to fix and plan to continue doing this over the next several months. I'll be able to try out each feature, and scrutinize every decision I've made during development. Once I'm convinced I've got a bug-free, rock solid project, I hope to find a few people to help test my plugin and prove me wrong by finding issues I've overlooked.

I have to say, it has been a rewarding and fun project. Best of all, I really need this plugin so I'm happy I can start using it.

Hello Peeps,
I'm having issue with my WP Dashboard and it's happened many times in past and also gets fixed automatically,

The thing is, after logging in WP Admin are, when I try to open Posts and Pages options, it's redirect to the default Dashboard screen instead of displaying the screen where all Posts are there and I can modify it and same thing is happening with Pages option.

In simple words, check below URL:

"https://www.xyz.com/wp-admin/edit.php" redirects to "https://www.xyz.com/wp-admin/"

I just wanted to know the reason behind it, I've tried flushing cache/permalinks, deactivating plugins/themes etc but couldn't found the solution.

Have anyone of you faced this? if yes, how did you resolved.

Really greatfull for any insight.

Curious if others have hit this: a plugin conflict (or combo of plugins) that broke something so badly - site down, client furious, hours lost debugging - that it made you seriously consider whether WordPress was even the right long-term foundation for that project.

Not looking to bash WP, I still use it for plenty of stuff. But I've had a couple of cases lately where the fix took longer than it would've taken to just... not have that problem in the first place. Page builder conflicts, two SEO plugins fighting over meta tags, that kind of thing.

What's the worst plugin conflict you've dealt with, and did it change how you approach a site's stack afterward?

I'm looking for practical, useful, and unique plugins.

Please tell me which WordPress plugin you've used that left the biggest impression on you.

Lately I've been building a lot of sites on custom themes (a lot with Claude Code), small site + blog. And every time, the same problem: I look for a multilingual plugin for that kind of setup and there's nothing decently free, it's either overcomplicated or paid.

And I really don't need much:
-translate the theme strings
-translate the content of posts and pages
-a language switcher with the language in the path (e.g. /en/, /de/).

I couldn't find anything like that, so I wrote my own plugin. The idea is for it to be simple, and if it turns out good, I want to put it on wordpress.org so it's free.

If anyone would like to test it and give feedback, let me know in the comments.

Do you know a better solution to this problem?

Hey everyone,

I need a specific plugin recommendation for a web design module I’m teaching through a public employment program. My students are absolute beginners, mostly between 45 and 65 years old. They have zero IT background and get overwhelmed very easily by jargon.

The curriculum requires me to showcase some basic AI capabilities inside WordPress (generating a short paragraph of text, adjusting a layout, or placing a basic image). However, I am desperate to avoid the administrative nightmare of external setups.

I do not want a plugin where students have to:

Go to OpenAI, Claude, or any third-party site to create an account.

Generate, copy, and paste API keys into the WordPress dashboard.

Deal with credit card screens for "free trial credits."

Half the class will get locked out of their emails just trying to find verification codes, and we will easily waste two hours of class time troubleshooting registration errors instead of actually learning WordPress.

Are there any reliable, free, or freemium plugins out there that have basic AI content features working right out of the box immediately after clicking "Activate"? Something built straight into the block editor or a standalone widget that gives them that "wow" moment without any backend connections or API keys?

Any leads would be a lifesaver for my classroom management. Thanks in advance!

I’m a plugin author and recently had all my reviews removed from WordPress.org.

I understand why WordPress.org has to be strict about fake, incentivized, or manipulated reviews. That part makes sense. The frustrating part is that, from our side, these were real users with real WordPress sites, real installations, and real interactions with our team.

We were very strict internally to adhere to the rules: No paid reviews. No discounts for reviews. No review swaps. No internal/team accounts. No “leave us 5 stars” campaign.

These were customers/users who had a positive experience with the plugin and with the support they received. We helped them properly, they used the product, and they left reviews based on that experience.

What feels frustrating is that this seems like something that could have been verified pretty easily. WordPress.org could ask for invoices, installation proof, account history, site history, support interactions, or contact the reviewers directly.

I’m not posting this to attack the moderators. I get that they deal with a lot of spam and abuse, and I’m sure most removals happen for a reason. I’m also not trying to drive attention to the plugin, so I’m intentionally not linking it here.

I’m mostly trying to understand how other plugin authors handle this.

Has anyone successfully appealed removed reviews?
Is plugins@wordpress.org the right path, or is there a better way to ask for a review of the decision?
And if the answer is basically “nothing can be done,” how do you rebuild trust/signals without accidentally triggering the same issue again?

Would appreciate advice from plugin authors who have been through this.

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Hi guys, help me finalize my pricing.

I have developed 5 WordPress plugins which I'll release in the upcoming weeks.

Here's my problem;

I'd love to make them a one-time-purchase, but then I could breakeven only if I sell ~1.000 copies per year because I want to keep developing them and making them better.

If I can't sell another ~1000 copies next year, then I can't afford developing them further.

They're already fairly good and I suppose clients could settle for an "OK plugin" at ~$40 bucks one-time-purchase.

On the other hand, I could make them sooo much better if I can get ~1000 clients onboard for recurring annual payments.

I see both licensing types in the WordPress market, but I don't know what the sales numbers are like.

One solution I think of is to sell them as one-time-purchase with 1 year of updates and support.

So, next year, you'd have the option to pay and get further updates (+1 year) or be stuck with the version you have. It may still be a bit tough to survive in the long term because many prople may be just fine with the versions they have...

What do you think? What is your purchase behavior like?

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I have a service business and clients fill a
Jotform to request service. All are repeat customers. Right now it’s just a link to a jotform but I’d like customers to be able to login to my website for a few reasons:

1. To not have to refill their own contact info every time they fill out the form
2. Security (no spam form-fillouts or fake orders, no anonymity)
3. So the customer can view past orders.

There are currently no payments processed online (our pricing is complex and quote based and can’t easily be integrated into the ordering process/ form fillout process yet)

Just wondering if this could be a plugin solution or is a job for a developer to build custom.

Your answers as well as opinions or alternative solutions are appreciated.