Sometimes, after moving a site from a development environment into a live production environment, users and developers can forget to uncheck the “Discourage Search Engines From Indexing Your Site” box located within the Reading Settings. It’s a terrible feeling to realize months after a site has gone live, that search engines failed to index the…
The BuddyPress 2014 Survey results are in and are now posted on github with graphs to visually represent the data collected from 338 developers in 52 countries. The survey provided an opportunity for participants to post feature requests as well as identify important areas for improvement. When prioritizing new development for 2014, the team will…
Last week, we announced the release of Jetpack 2.9 which introduced a related posts module and multisite support. Unfortunately, the release also contained a bug that prevented posts from being published if the Spelling and Grammar module was enabled. More specifically, if you have the module configured to automatically proofread posts and pages before they…
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, we dived deep into the topic of security, especially at it relates to WordPress. Dre Armeda and Tony Perez of Sucuri joined me on the show to talk about the formation of the company, the history behind the name, and provided advice on how to protect your WordPress site.…
This week Audit WP launched a new SEO consultancy, headed up by SEO strategist Jacob King. The firm’s first order of business after launching was to publish a post to expose what King perceives to be important SEO and privacy concerns for customers of managed WordPress host WP Engine. Audit WP uncovered more than 1.5…
WordPress.com made a big move to branch out into hosted e-commerce this week. For $299/year, Business users get unlimited access to premium themes, unlimited storage, live chat and email support, custom domains, no ads and the newest feature: “hassle-free” e-commerce. The company opted to offer its new online stores via partnerships with three hosted e-commerce…
One of the biggest features to land in WordPress 3.7 were automatic updates. When automatic updates are completed, an email notification is sent to the address specified within Settings > General which is typically the website administrator. However, if you maintain websites for clients, you probably want those notifications to be forwarded to you and…
Chris Wiegman of iThemes has announced the latest update to the Better WP Security plugin contains fixes for vulnerabilities discovered in 3.6.3. The updates address compatibility with InfiniteWP, the removal of their in-dashboard support form, and FooPlugins support form code. While support for InfiniteWP was removed in 3.6.4, it’s been restored in 3.6.5 as they…
WordPress has been approved to participate in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) as a mentoring organization for 2014. GSoC is a global program that offers promising students an opportunity to contribute code to open source projects with a stipend provided by Google. Last year 1,192 students were part of the program. The 2014 program…
When WordPress theme shops build typography options into their themes, they almost universally opt for integrating Google Fonts. It’s no wonder, given that Google fonts are free, easy to browse and generally fast-loading. The Theme Foundry is one of the first to step outside the box to integrate commercial fonts into their themes, via a…
Admin Bookmarks developed by Brad Vincent, allows you easily bookmark posts, pages and custom post types. This is especially useful if you find yourself repeatedly editing the same pages or posts. Upon activation, a new dashicon in the shape of a star will appear next to the title of every post, page, and custom post…
Jetpack 2.9 was released today with the long-awaited Related Posts module, which was introduced on WordPress.com in early November 2013. Server resource-intensive features such as stats tracking and related posts are very difficult to accomplish in an efficient way. Jetpack’s new Related Posts module uses WordPress.com resources to do this instead, which is undoubtedly a…
Tony Perez and Dre Armeda of Sucuri Security will be our special guests on this weeks edition of WordPress Weekly. We’ll spend the majority of the episode talking about WordPress security and what users can do to protect themselves against the bad guys. We’ll also figure out why the company was founded and what trends…
WordPress.org profiles are set to get a revamp in the very near future. Jen Mylo posted yeseterday, asking for thoughts and ideas about what to incorporate into the new profiles. She will be working with Mel Choyce to design a new UI for the profile data. Mylo also initiated an effort to get speaker information…
WP Hotkeys is a plugin developed by McGuive7 and MIGHTYminnow that adds the ability to navigate the backend of WordPress with just a keyboard using shortcuts. The plugin works out of the box with a predefined set of hotkeys for each standard dashboard menu item. If you don’t want to see the shortcut helpers in…
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