Not to put too fine a point on it but I'm more than a little freaked out. As an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to write a plugin that could save my wife some time with managing her website. I wrote a ...

Shortcodes in WordPress are small snippets of text that you can enter into a post or page body which trigger a larger function to run at that position. It’s the equivalent of inserting a program ...

In the first post of this series, we discussed transforming a simple shortcode to a block, and using shortcode content for a block attribute value. In this post, we’ll get into a more difficult case: ...

An advisory has been issued about a high-severity WordPress vulnerability that makes it possible for attackers to inject arbitrary shortcodes into sites using the WordPress Popular Posts plugin.

Lately we’ve been putting a lot of effort into increasing the adoption rate of the WordPress block editor on campus. One of the larger hurdles in that process is how many custom shortcodes we have in ...