The past 156 episodes of WordPress Weekly are filled with stories of people who are doing exciting things with WordPress. For this episode, I decided to try something a little different. I handed the show over to Marcus Couch, who interviewed me. In the show, I describe how I became interested in computers and the…
Underscores community project contributors announced today that the theme now includes support for Sass. The popular WordPress starter theme is an open source project maintained by Automattic, and many of its users requested Sass support, according to contributor Tammie Lister. “The community firstly asked for Sass. As Sass is in core, this makes sense. It…
The cdnjs service is used by hundreds of thousands of websites to offload static files for performance. It’s an open source community-driven project that hosts a variety of different file types, including JavaScript, CSS, SWF, and images, thanks to help from sponsors UserApp and CloudFlare. WP cdnjs is a new plugin that allows users to…
Over the past few months, WordPress developers have been experimenting with speeding up PHP execution with HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine) and have achieved some amazingly fast load times. HHVM compatibility with WordPress is gradually improving and more hosting companies are moving to adopt it, as many believe that HHVM will soon revolutionize PHP. Changes in…
As I was listening to an interview with Chris Lema, I was surprised to hear how Crowd Favorite has offices setup across the world. Many of the WordPress agencies I’m familiar with are 100% distributed with one physical office. This is the first time I’ve heard of a WordPress development agency with multiple offices throughout…
Earlier this year, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion dollars. With 450+ million users per month and 70% of them active per day, Facebook is betting on the the app’s massive user base and continued growth. Although WhatsApp is enormously popular, very few WordPress sharing plugins have prioritized adding the service to the list of…
If you’re using Jetpack and need to reconnect it to a site but don’t have access to the WordPress.com account associated with it, you can switch accounts without losing your stats or subscribers. Just follow these simple steps. Login to your self-hosted WordPress site and disconnect Jetpack. Create a new WordPress.com account. Connect your self-hosted…
Automatically changing the background color of a post based on its images is a fancy effect that you may have noticed on WordPress.com’s Ryu theme. It’s currently WordPress.com’s 7th most popular theme and is also available for self-hosted sites with the same intuitive background changing feature built in. Jetpack developer Jeremy Herve just released an…
WPCore launched less than a month ago and has already gone through several rounds of improvement. The app allows WordPress users to create plugin collections and install them in one click. Most recently, WPCore added favoriting and the ability to include custom plugins hosted outside of WordPress.org. Today, WPCore creator Stuart Starr announced a new…
WordPress users are strongly encouraged to update their sites to 3.9.2 as it’s a security focused release. According to the announcement, 3.9.2 fixes a possible denial of service issue in PHP’s XML processing. The bug was first reported by Nir Goldshlager of the Salesforce.com Product Security Team and was fixed by Michael Adams and Andrew…
Over the past year, WordPress plugin developers have created some unique implementations of the post editor that add Markdown editing with a side-by-side preview. Both the Gust and Splitdown plugins were inspired by the Ghost editor and attempt to recreate that experience in WordPress. MarkPress is the newest to join the ranks of Markdown-powered editors.…
Crowd Favorite has appointed Chris Lema as the company’s new CTO. Alex King, the current CTO, will move into the Chief Software Architect role, allowing him to focus his expertise in product development and deep-level technical leadership with the company’s teams. Lema will begin in mid-September and use his product development experience to help bring…
Jason Coleman, creator of the popular Paid Memberships Pro plugin, launched his new SchoolPress app in beta this week. SchoolPress is an open source WordPress-powered web app designed for educators who want to incorporate a virtual component into their online or offline classes. The app is a demo that was created to showcase ideas from…
Pippin Willamson, creator of the AffliateWP plugin, has discovered a serious bug within the All In One WordPress Security and Firewall plugin. According to a forum thread created by Williamson, All In One WordPress Security and Firewall automatically detects option ids with fwp as malicious and deletes them. Known WP Pharma Hack Entry: fwp and…
The WordPress REST API is currently slated for inclusion in WordPress 4.1 and the API team is busy working towards that goal. Project contributors Ryan McCue and Rachel Baker have been on the road giving presentations to introduce developers to the API. They presented at WordCamp Milwaukee and WordCamp NYC, demonstrating how developers can use…
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