WordPress offers a ton of plugins on its repository; big, small; complex, simple; there’s something to meet every need. However, sometimes finding something new is like looking for a needle in a haystack. In this new series, we’ll be doing quick reviews of a selection of plugins each week, so maybe you’ll find something new and interesting to play with!

The Joomla 3.5 first beta release went live on November 11th, 2015, and we’ve had a look to find out what important changes are coming your way once the full release drops this December.

More and more users across the world are gaining access to the internet, and it’s quickly become essential for daily life. For this reason it’s important to ensure that your website meets accessibility guidelines, as failing to make your site welcoming to users with disabilities or impairments is severely limiting your potential audience. In this article we examine two easy-to-use tools that can help you diagnose and correct issues that make your site less accessible than it can be.

When building your online presence it pays to have a easily-recognizable avatar, and with Gravatar you can instantly access your unique image on sites across the web. Joomla websites don’t include this feature as standard, but integrating it is easy in this simple developer’s tutorial.

In the third part of our round-up of useful WordPress plugins that aren’t as well-known as the big-hitters, we cover security-enhancing plugins that help you keep track of vulnerabilities, plugins for improving your site’s functionality for the user, and clever little plugins for total control of widget placement. It’s an eclectic mix, so read on and discover some of the more useful plugins on the WordPress repository.

The WordPress REST API is one of the biggest additions to WordPress for many years, providing new ways to integrate WordPress into the digital world. With this guide, we’ll help you add custom fields to REST API responses to better manage data requests.

With the power of the WordPress child themes feature you can modify key theme files without affecting the originals, but with plugins its usually another story. However, WooCommerce includes a similar functionality to make customization even easier; find out how in this simple yet useful tutorial.

Joomla includes many options for building a multilanguage website; you can add your own language text easily to your content, and modules or templates can include language files ready to be modified. However, Joomla also offers an alternative method, called Language Overrides, which may be a more comfortable option.

Part four of our Joomla tips and tricks series is here, including an alternative solution for developers who want to use multiple templates in Joomla without being restricted to using menu items.

The third entry in our Joomla tricks series steps back from the hard coding of previous articles and looks at something even beginners can appreciate; filtering searches to limit results by category, site location and more. Learn how it works in the complete tutorial.