Plugins

I build WordPress plugins mainly to scratch my own itch. Most of them solve small, specific problems that I’ve kept running into on client sites and personal projects. They’re all free, open source, and maintained by yours truly.

We Spam Econo

2.0.4 April 8, 2026

We Spam Econo blocks WordPress comment spam using a continuously-updated blocklist of over 64,000 known spam terms. Forked from Andrew Norcross’s Comment Blacklist Manager and rewritten to store its blocklist in a custom database table. Storing that many entries in wp_options causes autoload performance problems. The custom table approach stays fast as the blocklist grows.

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Template Jump

1.0.0 April 10, 2026

Template Jump adds an Edit Template link to the WordPress admin bar on block themes. Click it and you land in the Site Editor on the template that’s currently rendering. Saves a trip through Appearance → Editor → Templates every time you want to tweak something.

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PLU Redux

3.0.1 May 17, 2026

PLU Redux displays a “Last Updated” date next to every plugin on your installed plugins screen. Plugins that haven’t been updated in over two years get a warning emoji. It also adds a Site Health check that flags outdated plugins with a critical status. Includes a WP-CLI command for checking last updated dates from the terminal.

WordPress Plugin Directory · GitHub

Total Pushover

1.2.0 May 17, 2026

Total Pushover redirects all WordPress emails to the Pushover notification service. Handy for development sites or single-user installs where you don’t want to set up SMTP or a transactional mail plugin. Everything your site would normally email out (including password reset requests) gets sent as a Pushover notification instead.

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Evergreen

1.0.0 April 10, 2026

Evergreen automatically enables auto-updates for plugins as they’re installed or activated. Because manually toggling the auto-update switch across a dozen client sites every time something new lands is tedious busywork. Install a plugin, it gets auto-updates. Activate a plugin, same deal. On uninstall, Evergreen only removes the auto-update settings it added, leaving anything you set manually alone.

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Updraft Chihuahua

1.0.0 April 10, 2026

Updraft Chihuahua emails you if your nightly UpdraftPlus backups haven’t run when they should have. Silent backup failures are the worst kind of failure, since you don’t find out until you actually need to restore something. This plugin checks once a day and sends an alert the moment your scheduled backup misses its window.

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Biscotti

3.0.0 May 17, 2026

Biscotti extends the WordPress login cookie expiration to three months, six months, or one year on a per-user basis. Because some folks hate having to keep entering their passwords. Each user picks their own expiration under their profile page, so it stays out of the way for anyone who doesn’t want it. Includes WP-CLI support for managing cookie expiration from the command line.

WordPress Plugin Directory · GitHub

utf8mb4 CLI Upgrader

1.1.0 May 17, 2026

This plugin upgrades your WordPress database collation to utf8mb4_unicode_ci via WP-CLI. Some WordPress installs missed the automatic utf8mb4 conversion when WordPress 4.2 shipped. If yours did, it may be silently affecting performance. This plugin walks through each table and handles the conversion.

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