Yoast SEO – Recalculating SEO Scores Hangs

Just a quick note about the Recalculating SEO Scores tool in the Yoast SEO plugin 3.0.6. We tried running this as part of an larger upgrade in our staging service but it hung so we needed to kill it. Working on the assumption that the hang was due to a quirk with the...

Add State Drop Down List to WPEC

The plugin WP eCommerce (WPEC) by default provides regions for only Canada and the US. This means other countries users have to manually type in their state or territory name at checkout. See how to add extra states and territories to the checkout page.

PHP 5.5 Plugin Issues

This is just a short ‘heads up’ to anyone running either of the plugins NextGEN 1.9.3 (an old version) or Statpress 1.4.3 (not updated for 12 months) that neither appear to work since my host upgraded my sites to PHP 5.5. This isn’t to say that there...

WP SlimStat not so Slim?

Review of the performance impact of the WP SlimStat Version 3.6.1 plugin on our WordPress website. After moving several websites to a new server we were looking for a new WordPress statistics plugin to replace the kstats / kstats-reloaded / statpress-visitors plugins...

WP Shopping Cart NextGEN Gallery AddOn Review

This post offers a short review of our recent experience using the WP Shopping Cart Addon for the NextGEN Gallery. The addon is a WordPress plugin (WP Simple Paypal Shopping cart) and a template file which allows you to add to your NextGEN gallery a simple shopping...