With the release of WordPress 3.8.2, some users are reporting on the WordPress.org support forum that the update disabled XML-RPC causing mobile apps to break. Many of those who are reporting the issue have one thing in common: they’re using the Wordfence Security plugin. With over 1.5 million downloads, Wordfence Security is a popular plugin…
Back in March, Fred Meyer, shared his thoughts on why the core of WordPress needs a writing style guide. The post generated a healthy conversation, including this comment by Matt Mullenweg: WP has always been optionated software with a lot of personality. Every year or two people try to neuter it, remove a bt of…
Automattic announced its acquisition of Longreads today. Since 2009, the Longreads service has helped people find and share the best fiction and nonfiction longform content on the web, curated by its team of editors and the #longreads hashtag. Longreads defines longform content as anything over 1,500 words, the type of articles that are most often…
If you’re interested in WordPress project stats, WP Central has a collection of interactive visualizations for everything from download stats to version usage to internationalization. The site, created by WordPress contributor Marko Heijnen, has been in development for several months and is gradually adding more data. The homepage of the site features stats for the…
The dates for WordCamp NYC were announced today. The event will be held August 2-3, 2014 at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in downtown Brooklyn. Tickets will go on sale within the next few weeks. Traditionally, WordCamp NYC has sold out every year. In 2009, 2010, and 2012 the event brought together…
WordPress 3.8.2 was released today with several important security fixes that warrant an immediate update. If you have background updates turned on, you should get the 3.8.2 security release within 12 hours. Of course, you can always update immediately via Dashboard > Update in the admin. Andrew Nacin outlined the important security fixes in this…
Roots is a WordPress starter theme that incorporates the HTML5 Boilerplate, Bootstrap, and Grunt. It’s also known for creating cleaner HTML, cleaner script output, and its unique theme wrapper method for handling template markup. Up until now, you’d have to use the Roots theme in order to take advantage of any of its features. Ben…
Hookr.io is a brand new project created by Christopher Sanford in the alpha stage of development. It’s an index of all the available WordPress Hooks and API calls stretching back to WordPress 1.5. The site is a result of a pet project he’s been working on for about a year. It started out as a…
Varying Vagrant Vagrants is likely the most popular Vagrant configuration for setting up a WordPress development environment. VVV makes it easy to create new WordPress installations for developing themes and plugins as well as contributing to core. One of the most time-consuming aspects of testing and reviewing WordPress themes is setting up a test site…
Disqus announced it is testing out a new advertising technique in the form of sponsored comments. According to the post, the experiment has been going on for at least a month and based on the results, is expanding it across the service. The sponsored comments are clearly marked as such and can contain any type…
The WordPress theme club known as DevPress has been sold to an unknown buyer for $14k. Launched in 2010, DevPress began as a WordPress collaboration project between Ptah Dunbar, Tung Do (aka Small Potato), Patrick Daly, and Justin Tadlock. Over the past four years, the company has experienced ups and downs. For example, in 2011,…
Last.fm never really caught on as a music service, but its scrobbling capabilities are still widely used. Its subscription streaming radio service will be retired at the end of this month in favor of on demand integration with Spotify and a new YouTube-powered radio player. Last.fm’s scrobbling service will also continue to live on. P2…
If you haven’t visited WordPress.org lately, the brand new design for profiles is a happy discovery. Last month, Jen Mylo let us know that the profiles were getting redesigned and relaunched with more data related to a user’s involvement with the WordPress project. The profile updates are now live with a fresh design that recognizes…
This episode of WordPress Weekly featured a panel of four individuals helping to make the web a safer place. Chris Wiegman – Lead Developer of iThemes Security Regina Smola – Founder of WPSecurityLock Brennen Byrne – Founder and CEO of Clef Sam Hotchkiss – Founder of BruteProtect We discussed a number of topics such as…
If you’re experiencing issues with Jetpack comments, you’re not the only one. First reported by WPTavern commenter, Mike McAlister, Jetpack Comments has been producing a Service Not Available error since the afternoon of April 3rd. @wptavern Seems the Tavern comment forms are getting "Service Temporarily Unavailable" errors. Maybe just Jetpack, but thought I'd mention! —…
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