Nigel M Rodgers

🤓 WordPress technical support and happiness.

[Nigel M Rodgers @nigelmrodgers]

@curious_edline @Anesuuuuuuuu I get you on why people see it as making excuses. That's a reason why it might be a good vid. Correcting the misconception that neurodivergence is just disability (excuses) and creating awareness on how to work to your own strengths (responsibility)

[Nigel M Rodgers @nigelmrodgers]

Fable 5 is just a conspiracy to finish our tokens faster 😂

[Nigel M Rodgers @nigelmrodgers]

@curious_edline This one is amazing! That sepia you usually do is nice but just not for me. In other news, found out my side watches you on YouTube do your a celeb now

[Nigel M Rodgers @nigelmrodgers]

@begottensun True, for now.

[Nigel M Rodgers @nigelmrodgers]

@begottensun There are Chinese solar lights that are surprisingly good. I bought one a year ago and only just replaced the $1 lithium battery. They’re so cheap that thieves will take the pole and leave the light. I bet Kuda’s hardware store has some.

[Nigel M Rodgers @nigelmrodgers]

@freemanchari Uka temha early, yellow isati yanyatso buda you can cook the flower shoots like cauliflower/broccoli.

[Syed Balkhi @syedbalkhi]

I hate CAPTCHAs.

And so do your customers ... up to 40% of them abandon a form the moment they see one.

But the alternative used to be worse.

At one point, my @wpbeginner forms got 18,000 spam requests in a single night.

So I tried everything. Honeypots, rate limiting, etc -- they worked for a while until they didn't.

There are premium spam tools, but they're often slow & expensive. They flag real people without telling me why.

So I asked my team to build something better.

It's called ActiveLayer (@activelayerapi) - an AI-powered spam protection that blocks bots without ever asking your real customers to prove they're human.

No CAPTCHAs. No tracking scripts. No friction.

It runs server-side in milliseconds and returns a verdict with a confidence score, so you can actually see why something was flagged.

It works with every WordPress form plugin you already use including WPForms (@easywpforms), @gravityforms, Contact Form 7, Elementor (@elemntor), etc.

There's also a clean REST API for everything else, so you can use it on any application platform, not just WordPress.

Think of it as a smart security guard for your forms. It welcomes real people, blocks the bots, and never asks anyone to prove they are human.

Let's make the web a little less spammy together.

Try it free → https://t.co/6yC13fh9PM

[Nigel M Rodgers @nigelmrodgers]

@curious_edline Someone manage to steal a paper the day before exam. Everyone except me spent the night cramming the answers. I got the highest mark.

[Nigel M Rodgers @nigelmrodgers]

@Ubuntu_ethics @curious_edline Conflating correlation with causation. Power dynamic and superiority complex move together but are distinct from each other

[Nigel M Rodgers @nigelmrodgers]

@curious_edline @Ubuntu_ethics You're conflating. Power dynamics began with physical strength. As strength lost its primacy, a superiority complex took its place.

[Nigel M Rodgers @nigelmrodgers]

@curious_edline An unending cycle. Example, man marries higher earner than him. Even if he's good by every other measure, he's likely to receive abuse as the woman expects the traditional dynamic. Patriarchy still to blame but how does it end?

[Syed Balkhi @syedbalkhi]

Most WordPress site owners can't name the cookies their own site sets.

Between ad networks, analytics, embedded videos, and plugins you installed three years ago, your site is dropping cookies you've never seen. GDPR and CCPA expect you to disclose every one of them. And block them before consent.

You can't disclose what you can't see.

That's why we built the Cookie Inspector. It's the newest feature in @WPConsent.

It walks your site the way a fresh visitor would. Every cookie that gets set, it traces back to the exact script responsible.

From the same flow, you can document the cookie and create a blocking rule. One pass through your site, and you actually know what's on it from privacy compliance perspective.

This is one of those features where, once you use it, you wonder how you ran a site without it.

Over 100,000+ WordPress sites use WPConsent to do privacy compliance properly, not just show a cookie banner. If you're one of them, the update is live in your dashboard.

If you're not, this is a good week to take a look.

Try the Cookie Inspector → https://t.co/YRNBJSUoxy

[Nigel M Rodgers @nigelmrodgers]

@Lexmurungu Safe, petrol cars can be converted to run on any fuel, even wood or diesel. It just depends on the cost.

[Nigel M Rodgers @nigelmrodgers]

@curious_edline Teeth squeaks😵‍💫

[Nigel M Rodgers @nigelmrodgers]

@WillarShoko You can still use Starlink and unlicensed spectrum for this but it's legal grey area in Zim. For a farm, I think you would need some kind of permit as it's a commercial entity. For personal use, you can set up a private base station, no permits required

[Nigel M Rodgers @nigelmrodgers]

@curious_edline duck feet must go back to school

[Nigel M Rodgers @nigelmrodgers]

@begottensun Yep, AI to thank/blame for app approval speeds. iOS will be faster because of less complexity and lower numbers of app submissions. while Android new apps and update releases are through the roof and open-source complexity just makes it worse.

[Syed Balkhi @syedbalkhi]

Translating my brands with leading SaaS translation tools would have cost us 7 figures annually!

For WPBeginner alone, six figures.

So last year I tried every well-known WordPress translation plugin instead.

Every single one slowed our admin to a crawl. Our post editor was practically unusable.

On our WooCommerce / EDD stores, the lag hit the entire checkout. Bad for conversions. Worse for revenue.

I kept thinking: why is this so hard?

In 2026, AI is good enough that small businesses shouldn't have to choose between site speed and going global.

So I asked our team to build the translation platform we actually wanted to use.

Today I'm sharing it with you. It's called Universally.

AI translates your entire website in minutes. Translations live on our cloud, not your database. So your site stays fast. Often faster, because we deliver from edge servers worldwide.

Multilingual SEO is fully automated. Hreflang tags, translated metadata, clean URLs, RTL support. All of it.

We've already translated 250M+ words during our private beta.

WordPress is live today.

Shopify, Wix, Webflow, and Squarespace are next coming very soon.

The free plan is genuinely free. No credit card required. You can have your site running in a second language in under 10 minutes.

If you've put off translating because it felt too expensive, too technical, or too fragile, this is for you.

Try it → https://t.co/SiawXsLo6m

[Nigel M Rodgers @nigelmrodgers]

@curious_edline Wakambotaura naEllen? She's nice. She might not take you to manjuzu but she has stories. All contact details on her page, but let me know if you need help https://t.co/6OcGpndU7N

[Nigel M Rodgers @nigelmrodgers]

@curious_edline @iam_kingbee Can rebox a 2nd hand ICASA phone and print a sticker with the correct SN.