Todays show

New Plugin review, News tips, plugin extras and more all coming up on Plugin Pulse: WP Plugins A to Z Unplugged.

Talking about unpopular idea in WordPress today. New tips and more all coming up on Plugin Pulse: WP Plugins A to Z Unplugged.

Welcome to ‘Plugin Pulse: WP Plugins A to Z Unplugged!’ I’m your host, John Overall, bringing you the latest beat on all things WordPress. Where we dive into the plugin world to spill the beans on the latest the WordPress world, all unplugged and unfiltered, showcasing the freshest WordPress news, digging into a killer plugin demo, or exploring tips to level up your site. Today, I’ve got the mic to myself, and we’re pulsing through what’s hot, what’s new, and what you need to know. So, grab your coffee, fire up your dashboard, and let’s get into it!”





John us for an in depth discussion about:



Rant about the plugins for WordPress and what it means to the system I believe the days are numbered for themes have been for a long time and accelerating now but plugins they are not going anywhere. Ever since they where introduced to the system I saw that was going to change  everything and it did. Even to this day people are still creating new ways and improving on current ways that plugins are are created to solve problems and only plugin can do this.



Lets start this out with some continuation of the Cool Kids have left, time to bring them back https://iconick.io/wordpress-evangelist/



if you have been listening to this show over the year or just recently I have been talking about the issues with the WordPress repo for a long time ever since they removed the “New Plugs Tab”

Some good chaos in the plugin world https://iconick.io/good-chaos/ and more from DaveVerse https://daveverse.org/2025/10/01/evangelism-is-good-chaos/



News Bites this Week

Why Shopify wont kill WordPress https://x.com/rayhanarif07/status/1974853041255055534







Nick Hamze (X Link) shared a free WordPress Readme Generator for visually creating      perfect WordPress.org plugin readme files.





More from Nick:

https://iconick.io/plugin-curation/



Thought on the new Shopify plugin for WordPress https://x.com/iamkrisrisner/status/1974834729410019642

https://x.com/rmelogli/status/1975093616520409294

https://woocommerce.com/woocommerce-vs-shopify/

Guidline 18 for plugins

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