Turn your WordPress site into a powerful business tool using just a plugin. Think WordPress is just for blogging? Think again. If you’ve ever needed a custom tool to manage things like inventory, client onboarding, or employee records — but didn’t have the budget for developers or the time to learn to code — Formidable Forms might [Read More…]
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Backdoors, Kill Switches & Remote DB Nukes: Why That Clever Plugin Feature Could Get You Sued
Quick question: I made a plugin recently that introduces a new user role as Devs or Super Admin to restrict users from doing certain stuff the plugin it self hides and cannot be removed by anyone but a super admin like a must use plugin plus it can remove entire site db remotely so the [Read More…]
Level Up Your WordPress Skills: Discover the World of Enterprise Application Development
Introduction As a WordPress developer, you already possess a powerful set of skills. But what if you could apply those skills to build complex, large-scale systems that power entire organizations? Welcome to the world of Enterprise Application Development (EAD). This guide will introduce you to the concepts, opportunities, and steps you can take to expand [Read More…]
Crisis Management in the Cloud: Lessons from Cloudflare’s Recent Outage
Introduction On June 12, 2025, Cloudflare faced one of its most challenging public moments in recent memory. Over the course of roughly two and a half hours, millions of websites and services relying on Cloudflare experienced significant disruptions. The root cause? A major outage at one of Cloudflare’s upstream providers: Google Cloud’s Identity and Access [Read More…]
Formidable Forms Triggers Multiple False ModSecurity™ Positives
Introducing Custom OWASP CRS Firewall Rules for Formidable Forms If you manage your own VPS, dedicated server, or have a site on a shared server that implements Apache’s mod_security module with the OWASP ModSecurity 2.9 Core Rule Set v3.3.4 or higher, you’ll need to add rules to your server firewall to allow Formidable’s form builder, [Read More…]
Easily Create PHP Variables for Every Form Field
Summary Have you ever wished it were easier to create Software Portability variables based on a form’s field keys? Here’s a function that will help you do this with 2-lines of code: View the code on Gist. To create the variables, pass the form’s key to the function: /* get all pertinent form and field [Read More…]
Murphy Visits The Laundry King Project
Murphy’s Law In a recent conversation I was graciously reminded that sometime between 1948 and 1949 following a mishap during rocket sled tests, American aerospace engineer Edward A. Murphy Jr. uttered this precautionary design advice: If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those results in a catastrophe, then someone [Read More…]
Let’s Build an Executive Business Intelligence Dashboard
Finally! The Ideal Project. If you’ve ever read anything I’ve written, you must know that I am the uber-advocate and promoter of Formidable Form’s capabilities to serve as a framework component in an Enterprise Application Development Environment. Well, I’ve landed the ideal project to prove the point and you’re going to take this journey with [Read More…]