Month: December 2014

  • New WordPress Customizer Import/Export Plugin Migrates Theme and Plugin Settings

    New WordPress Customizer Import/Export Plugin Migrates Theme and Plugin Settings

    The WordPress project is charging full steam ahead with improvements to the customizer. The most recent release featured the addition of dynamic and contextual controls, sections, and panels. As WordPress 4.2 is kicking off development, core contributors are looking to add menus to the customizer for easy management from the frontend. More WordPress theme developers…

  • WordSesh 3 Attracts 3,000 Unique Viewers From 89 Countries

    WordSesh 3 Attracts 3,000 Unique Viewers From 89 Countries

    WordSesh 3 took the WordPress world by storm over the weekend. With more than 3,000 unique viewers, the event attracted roughly three times the number of people who attended WordCamp Europe 2014. This makes WordSesh one of the largest WordPress events of the year. WordSesh is essentially an online WordCamp where viewers don’t have to…

  • What’s Your First Impression of Distraction-free Writing in WordPress 4.1?

    What’s Your First Impression of Distraction-free Writing in WordPress 4.1?

    With the release of WordPress 4.1 just a few days ago, millions of people have had the opportunity to use the improved Distraction-free Writing Mode. I rarely use this mode, but I’ve used it to write every post since updating to 4.1 and it’s growing on me. The improved mode works great on my Macbook…

  • Nulis: A Free Minimalist WordPress Theme with a Unique Twist

    Nulis: A Free Minimalist WordPress Theme with a Unique Twist

    Nulis is one of the most unique designs to land in the WordPress Themes Directory this year. At first glance, you might think the theme is rather plain. The screenshot on the theme’s description page doesn’t indicate anything interesting going on under the hood, but something about it intrigued me enough to put it up…

  • phpBB.com Compromised, Users Should Change Their Passwords

    phpBB.com Compromised, Users Should Change Their Passwords

    phpBB.com, which hosts the popular open source forum software phpBB, has been compromised. On Dec. 14th, members of the development team discovered several web servers that power the website were compromised and immediately suspended operations. Users are not at risk as the phpBB software is not affected. According to an ongoing investigation, initial entry was…

  • Postmatic Offers Free Concierge Service for Installation of Its New Comments Subscription Plugin

    Postmatic Offers Free Concierge Service for Installation of Its New Comments Subscription Plugin

    Postmatic is currently offering free concierge installation, configuration, and user migration for its new comments subscription plugin which is now in beta. The plugin allows users to subscribe to new posts/comments via email and leave a comment by simply hitting reply. Postmatic beta 6 introduced 1-click migration of subscribers from Jetpack, in order to make…

  • Menu Customizer Now in Development for WordPress 4.2

    Menu Customizer Now in Development for WordPress 4.2

    WordPress 4.1 was released just yesterday, but core contributors are already planning and working towards 4.2. The Menu Customizer feature plugin is back in development and contributors are hoping to have it ready for inclusion in 4.2. Nick Halsey, who originally started the Menu Customizer work as part of his Google Summer of Code project,…

  • WordSesh 3 Begins Tonight at 7PM EST

    WordSesh 3 Begins Tonight at 7PM EST

    WordSesh, the 24 hour virtual WordCamp, begins tonight at 7PM EST when one session per hour for 24 hours straight will stream live on the WordSesh homepage. It’s free to attend with sessions covering a wide range of topics including, WordPress performance, WooCommerce, and business advice. Take a look at the schedule to see a…

  • WPWeekly Episode 175 – New Years Resolution Slider

    WPWeekly Episode 175 – New Years Resolution Slider

    In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I discuss a number of topics. We give you a heads up on the latest round of attacks taking advantage of vulnerabilities in the Revolution Slider plugin. We congratulate John James Jacoby on successfully reaching his crowdfunding goal. We talk about a new plugin discovery tool…

  • Concept Image Shows Redesign of Drupal.org User Profiles

    Concept Image Shows Redesign of Drupal.org User Profiles

    Open source projects rely on contributions from both paid and non-paid volunteers. As a project gets larger, there are more ways to contribute. Displaying a user’s contributions is a great way to show off a person’s impact to the project. Like WordPress, Drupal.org provides a profile page for registered users. During the December 17th Drupal…

  • Critical Git Vulnerability Patched: Update Your Git Clients Immediately

    Critical Git Vulnerability Patched: Update Your Git Clients Immediately

    Git just announced version 2.2.1, a maintenance release that includes a security fix for a critical vulnerability that affects those using Windows and Mac OS X Git clients. This update also includes new releases with the same security fix for older Git versions. GitHub confirmed that GitHub for Windows and GitHub for Mac are both…

  • Export Your WordPress Blog to Jekyll with One Click

    Export Your WordPress Blog to Jekyll with One Click

    Jekyll fans are fond of the Ruby-powered static blogging software due to its ease of use and support for Markdown and the Liquid templating engine. With no database to maintain and no comments to moderate, Jekyll radically simplifies blogging. It’s also the software that powers blogging on Github Pages. Moving content from WordPress to Jekyll…

  • WordPress 4.1 “Dinah” Released

    WordPress 4.1 “Dinah” Released

    After nearly four months of development, WordPress 4.1 “Dinah” in honor of jazz singer Dinah Washington, is available for download. Led by John Blackbourn, 4.1 contains several improvements such as a new default theme, an improved distraction free writing experience, and plugin recommendations. Twenty Fifteen Twenty Fifteen is a two-column theme with a focus on…

  • Intergalactic: A Bold Free WordPress Theme from Automattic

    Intergalactic: A Bold Free WordPress Theme from Automattic

    Despite a global decrease in public funding for space programs, humans are still reaching for the last frontier through film, music, and even design. Automattic’s latest free theme release on WordPress.org is a bold new take on the space motif. Intergalactic features strong typography with post titles overlaying full-width featured images. The one-column layout is…

  • How to Take Control of The WordPress Heartbeat API

    How to Take Control of The WordPress Heartbeat API

    The WordPress Heartbeat API, introduced in WordPress 3.6, simulates a pulse and is responsible for revision tracking, session management, and more. The pulse is around 98 Bytes in size, but it can cause performance issues in certain situations. If you’ve been notified by your webhost that your account is using too many resources and cite…

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