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In WordPress 5.5 the feature that was requested 11 years earlier was finally implemented: The ability to update plugins from a .zip file. If you use an earlier WP version you need to delete the plugin you want to upload before you install another version. And this is how you install a new plugin or …

I try not to sound to needy with this but it I have been developing these plugins for 8 years and I really have trouble making enough money with the sales from the Pro Addon. The reason partially because I do not do any marketing outside the settings page and wp.org page. If you can …

The upcoming versions of ARVE and ARVE Pro are already running on this site where I sell the Pro Addon. So I am comfortable enough to use it here. However, the WP ecosystem is very complex with its hundreds of thousands of different themes and plugins and the new hated Block Editor (Gutenberg). Given experiences …

I just noticed on Rollingstone that they do lazyloading iframes for videos, but they use the same thumbnail for every single video. Not really fond of this behavior. And it gets worse, thumbnails are also lazyloaded and are loaded in pretty late when scrolling and instead of loading the same image it seems despite the …

In the recent years with the so called Ad-pocalypse and the continued way YouTube makes it harder for creators to monetize their content, especially if its not political correct or could be offensive in any way to somebody videos are quickly demonetized. The following might seem not that bad in comparison but still I think …

When you embed a YouTube video on any kind of website that lets you use HTML that lacks any special embedding feature you would go to YouTube, navigate below a video and copy paste the embed code. YouTube lets you even do some basic customization there. YouTube has this iframe HTML tag ready for you …

Update: Since tabs came back to wordpress.org. This script does this: Adds FAQ, Screenshots and Donate tabs. Fixes the blury headers by loading higher resolution images. (Picture below is outdated) I have written a userscript that brings back tabs. You can read about this at WP Tavern.

Version 7 will make use of another plugin Shortcake that adds a What You See Is What You Get interface to the ARVE Error: The [[arve]] shortcode needs one of this attributes av1mp4, mp4, m4v, webm, ogv, url shortcode. New catch all shortcode: What’s New in ARVE Version 7 . This take urls instead if …