The popular All In One SEO Plugin for WordPress has released an update addressing two security issues discovered by Sucuri during a security audit. According to Sucuri, one of the vulnerabilities can be used to escalate privileges while the other deals with Cross Site Scripting attacks. A logged-in user who doesn’t have administrative capabilities is…
We started the show off with Andrew Nacin where he clarified a number of points dealing with the WordPress.com Cookie problem. He also published a great post explaining why security is nuanced. The second part of the show featured an interview with Varsity News Network CEO, Ryan Vaughn, to discuss how the company is utilizing…
Tracks is a new free theme in the WordPress Themes Directory with a unique design that utilizes panoramic featured images. The homepage displays recent posts and a short excerpt for each, with big, bold images alternating down the page. If you’re looking for a simple theme with very few options to configure, then Tracks is…
Editorially closed its doors for good today, and with it goes all of the writing collaboration tools its users came to love. Unfortunately, some legal issues are currently preventing them from open sourcing the code for the application, but it’s under consideration. In the meantime, a newcomer has stepped in to provide some of the…
The second ever WP Think Tank hosted by Troy Dean is now available to watch. WP Think Tank is a by-product of the WP Elevation podcast. The two hour-long show is filled with great information from some of the brightest minds working with large WordPress clients every day. Matt Medeiros – Founder of the MattReport…
Query Recorder is a new tool that allows developers to record queries while working in the WordPress admin. The plugin was created by Brad Touesnard, author of the popular WP Migrate DB plugin. Touesnard introduced Query Recorder earlier this month at WordCamp Miami during his presentation on database deployment strategy. Once installed, the plugin allows…
While WordPress 3.8 and 3.9 substantially improved the theme experience within WordPress, the plugins page hasn’t had the same treatment. In fact, the page hasn’t changed much since 2.7. However, that may change as Alex Shiels has proposed a detailed outline explaining the improvements and changes he’d like to see. According to Shiels, the goal…
WP-CFM is a new free tool for WordPress created by Matt Gibbs, author of the popular Custom Field Suite plugin. It provides configuration management for WordPress database changes, similar to Drupal’s Features module. WP-CFM lets you create and store bundles, which are essentially a group of one or more configuration options. The first step after…
When I discovered TeslaThemes last year, their unique looking designs really impressed me. Since so many other theme shops have tried the theme club model and failed, I didn’t have much hope for them. However, the company is celebrating their first year of being in business. The theme club model typically fails because it over…
This Friday at 3P.M. Eastern on WordPress Weekly, we’ll be joined by Ryan Vaughn, CEO of Varsity News Network, to discuss how the company is utilizing WordPress to become the ESPN of high school sports. Using a custom designed theme, VNN provides more than 350 high schools across the country a website to publish informational…
WordPress core contributors came to a consensus today during the development meeting regarding the immediate future of the JSON REST API project. Ryan McCue and his team released version 1.0 over the weekend and have been pushing hard for it to be ready for the upcoming 4.0 release. When I spoke with McCue yesterday about…
Late last week, Yan Zhu, a Staff Technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation publicly disclosed a security vulnerability she discovered with WordPress.com and how it handles cookies. More specifically, she discovered the “wordpress_logged_in” cookie being sent in the clear to a WordPress authentication endpoint. She was able to use the authenticated cookie to publish blog…
WordCamp Miami is one of the largest WordPress events in operation, with 770+ attendees and a large group of organizers and volunteers who turned out for its most recent 5th anniversary edition. It ran earlier this month with four days (Thursday – Sunday) packed full of activities. Multiple venues, parking areas, presentation tracks, catering and…
Today marks 11 years since the very first official public release of WordPress. Reading through that changelog will make you smile and realize how far the software has come since the early days when its main competitors were Textpattern and Movable Type. Fast forward 11 years and WordPress now powers 22% of the web with…
Apple has a new advertisement for iPad, featuring Chérie King, whose WordPress-powered Flight of the Travel Bee blog is dedicated to helping deaf people discover the joy of traveling. Her story can be found at apple.com/cherie and is included as part of the “What will your verse be?” campaign. The first video beautifully captures Chérie’s…
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