WordPress

Since there is Simple Mailchimp Sync plugin on my site that allows to automatically subscribe WordPress users to Mailchimp audiences, from time to time I receive a question – is it possible to do the opposite? To connect Mailchimp list to a WordPress website somehow and create users from the emails?

Something like this:

The answer is yes for sure and in this tutorial let’s figure it out how to do that.

I noticed that when people read my post about uploading a featured image via WordPress REST API, they are also searching how to get a post with its featured image URL.

So I decided to say a couple words about it.

I already have a lot of tutorials about working with REST API on regular WordPress websites, but recently I have updated my Simple WordPress Crossposting plugin to make it compatible with websites hosted on wordpress.com as well.

Unexpectedly there is a huge difference between wordpress.org and wordpress.com APIs, so here is the tutorial where we are about to dive into the example of how create a post with a featured image.

What is interesting here is that if you try to google the title of this post you will find a lot of plugins and most of them are outdated and no articles or code examples.

In this tutorial I am going to guide you through the process of bulk creating posts, we will not only create posts or pages automatically, but also try to use the data from Lorem Ipsum generators or Open AI (ChatGPT).

In this tutorial I will show you how you can add “Login with MetaMask” button to your WordPress login page. Once you click on it, you will signed in to WordPress dashboard. Here is how it is going to work:

Even though Gutenberg (WordPress Block Editor) has become our new reality and FSE themes are also on their way, we still need meta boxes on our projects. The meta boxes aren’t necessarily classic meta boxes for posts, it could be additional settings fields for taxonomies, users, comments and even options pages. It means that we are going to need them for a very long time. Maybe even forever.

Of course the best way to create any of the mentioned above is to code by yourself. But it could be really time consuming especially if you have a lot of fields (and working on lots of projects).

That’s when metabox plugins come into play. The most popular ones are Advanced Custom Fields and Carbon Fields. Also in this article I am going to mention my own metabox plugin I developed for my needs which is Simple Fields.

The idea of this tutorial is to become more conscious to what plugins we are using to achieve our goals, because there are lots of slow WordPress websites out there, not because WordPress is slow but because sites are overloaded with tens and even hundreds heavy plugins.

Let’s look the truth in the face – of course I am going to tell you how cool my Simple Fields plugin is. But I am not going to say “use it”, because I understand clearly that sometimes its functionality is not enough, then you can probably look at Carbon Fields plugin. And even Advanced Custom Fields PRO has its own advantages though I am not a big fan of it.

In this post we are going to talk about REST API, particularly about how to sync user registrations, profile updates and removals between two completely separate WordPress websites.

If you need to sync posts instead, then I can suggest you a tutorial and a plugin.