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How to Prevent Gravity Forms from Storing Entries in WordPress

in WordPress by THOMAS GRIFFIN • December 4, 2014 • 14 Comments

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Often times you use Gravity Forms to collect sensitive user information, so today we are going to learn how to prevent Gravity Forms from storing entries in WordPress.

Gravity Forms is an awesome WordPress plugin. I use it on every site that I build to give my visitors a way to interact with me (you can see an example on my contact page).

Security should always be relevant and at the forefront of any discussion that relates to user information. You don’t want to be held liable for that information, especially if it contains anything that could be damaging like … [continue reading]

2014 Cyber Monday Deals from My WordPress Toolbox

in WordPress by THOMAS GRIFFIN • November 30, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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If you haven’t signed up to receive my absolutely free WordPress toolbox resource (where I detail all the items I use in my WordPress toolbox), I encourage you to sign up by clicking on this link.

There are tons of Cyber Monday deals available, but I wanted to list out some specific ones that relate to items inside of my WordPress toolbox. These are items that I use on a regular basis, and they just happen to have some really awesome sales going on right now for Cyber Monday!

For the majority of these items, these sales only come … [continue reading]

Introducing the TGM Batch Updates Plugin for WordPress

in WordPress by THOMAS GRIFFIN • October 22, 2014 • 2 Comments

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It is my pleasure to introduce to you an incredibly useful batch and bulk updating utility plugin for WordPress – TGM Batch Updates.

The TGM Batch Updates plugin is a batch and bulk updating utility for WordPress that allows you to update massive datasets with relative ease. It was built to allow you to quickly build batch queries and process massive amounts of data with the click of a button.

Click here to view the plugin on Github

As you may or may not know, I use Easy Digital Downloads with the EDD Software Licensing extension for all of my … [continue reading]

How to Use the New WordPress 4.0 Plugin Update Modal Window

in WordPress by THOMAS GRIFFIN • November 29, 2014 • Leave a Comment

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WordPress 4.0 came out with a shiny new update modal window UI, but we need some tweaking in order to make use of it in our WordPress plugins and themes.

Austin Passy (the guy behind extendd.com) asked about this on Twitter about a week ago, so I decided to tackle this for fun.

Anyone using the new WordPress AJAX popups as seen in install new plugins or get info? Any docs on it or examples? #WordPress

— Austin ☃ Passy (@TheFrosty) October 7, 2014

The new UI for the update modal window is pretty slick, but without some extra … [continue reading]

WordPress Performance Outside of the Box: Handling and Retrieving Data

in WordPress by THOMAS GRIFFIN • November 29, 2014 • 16 Comments

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This is more of an experimental type of approach to performance in regards to storing and retrieving data. The results are absolutely astounding, and the process is definitely worth considering if your project meets the criterium.

I was discussing data storage with Jared Atchison last week, and at some point in the conversation, this idea that I will present to you today came up. I think you will enjoy the read, and I hope it will make you think outside of the box for ways to improve performance in WordPress.

For the majority of WordPress plugin and theme authors, we … [continue reading]