Month: June 2015

  • BackPress is Coming Back From the Dead

    BackPress is Coming Back From the Dead

    WordPress developers Roy Sivan and John James Jacoby have taken a keen interest in reviving the BackPress project. They will be discussing their plans to bring it back to life on a live Google Hangout at 1PM PST (8pm UTC) today, June 16. BackPress is a PHP library of core functionality for web applications. It…

  • Postmatic Adds Importer for Subscribe to Comments Plugin

    Postmatic Adds Importer for Subscribe to Comments Plugin

    Over the weekend Postmatic version 1.2.3 was released with a new importer for the Subscribe to Comments plugin. Founder Jason Lemieux and his team launched the 100% email-based commenting service in April and have been steadily adding importers for users of other various comment subscription plugins. Postmatic launched with importers for Mailpoet, Mailchimp, and one-click…

  • o2 is Now Available on GitHub

    o2 is Now Available on GitHub

    This weekend at WordCamp Denver, Kevin Conboy announced that Automattic’s long-awaited O2 project is now publicly available on GitHub. In a recent interview with WP Tavern, Matt Mullenweg confirmed that the o2 development team is shifting its focus to WordPress.com’s core products but that the o2 code would be public for anyone to use. o2…

  • WP Featherlight: A New Lightbox Plugin for WordPress Images and Galleries

    WP Featherlight: A New Lightbox Plugin for WordPress Images and Galleries

    WP Site Care recently launched its new WP Featherlight plugin on WordPress.org. While there are already hundreds of lightbox plugins available for WordPress, this one may prove to be the “lightest” of them all. The plugin is essentially a wrapper for the Featherlight jQuery lightbox script created by Noel Bossart. Featherlight.js was designed to be…

  • WordPress Plugin Developers Need to Communicate Better in Change Logs

    WordPress Plugin Developers Need to Communicate Better in Change Logs

    One of the habits I developed when I started using WordPress is to always read a plugin’s changelog before updating. The changelog is a communication channel that bridges the gap between me and the developer. It tells me what’s changed, what to expect, and any other information the developer thinks I should know. The most…

  • HHVM Demonstrated to be 18.7% Faster Than PHP 7 on a WordPress Workload

    HHVM Demonstrated to be 18.7% Faster Than PHP 7 on a WordPress Workload

    This week HHVM developers shared the results of their first ever open source performance lockdown. HHVM is Facebook’s open source PHP execution engine, originally created to help make its infrastructure more efficient. WordPress managed hosts, including WP Engine, Pagely, and SiteGround, have added HHVM hosting options within the last year to cater to customers who…

  • StackExchange is Testing a Proposed Q&A Site for WooCommerce

    StackExchange is Testing a Proposed Q&A Site for WooCommerce

    StackExchange community members have proposed a new Q&A site for users and developers of WooCommerce. The proposal is currently in the “Definition” phase, which means that participants are working to design the community by proposing hypothetical questions that embody the topic’s scope. So far for WooCommerce, popular hypothetical questions include: How do I handle the…

  • Customizer Typography: A Proof-of-Concept Plugin for WordPress Theme Authors

    Customizer Typography: A Proof-of-Concept Plugin for WordPress Theme Authors

    One option that users often appreciate in themes is the ability to control typography without having to modify any code. Justin Tadlock has been experimenting with adding a typography control class for the WordPress customizer. Instead of writing a lengthy tutorial, he opted to create a a proof-of-concept plugin that demonstrates how theme authors might…

  • WooCommerce 2.3.11 Patches Object Injection Vulnerability

    WooCommerce 2.3.11 Patches Object Injection Vulnerability

    WooCommerce 2.3.11 patches an object injection vulnerability discovered by Sucuri. According to the security research company, the vulnerability is only present when the PayPal Identity Token option is set in WooCommerce. Researchers used a combination of WordPress and WooCommerce components with a known PHP bug and were able to download critical files, including wp-config.php which…

  • WPWeekly Episode 195 – Recap of WordCamp Orange County 2015

    WPWeekly Episode 195 – Recap of WordCamp Orange County 2015

    In this episode, Marcus Couch and I recap WordCamp Orange County 2015 held in Costa Mesa, CA. We share our favorite sessions, highlights of the weekend, and I explain why I spent day two of the conference in my hotel room. During the second half of the show, we cover the news of the week,…

  • WooThemes Fixes XSS Vulnerability in Products Using the prettyPhoto Library

    WooThemes Fixes XSS Vulnerability in Products Using the prettyPhoto Library

    Jeff Ikus of WooThemes, announced on the company’s themes development blog, that it has pushed out updates to all of its products that use the prettyPhoto library. The update fixes a DOM based cross-site scripting vulnerability discovered in 2014. prettyPhoto is a jQuery lightbox clone used in a potentially large number of WordPress products. If…

  • WordPress Core Contributors Call for User Testing on the Menu Customizer Plugin

    WordPress Core Contributors Call for User Testing on the Menu Customizer Plugin

    Ryan Boren published a post to the Make/WordPress Core blog this afternoon, titled Trust, Live Preview, and Menus in the Customizer. In it he clarified the reasons why he and several other core contributors are committed to iterating the customizer and identified the feature as a means of building user trust through live previews. Being…

  • Introducing the WP Tavern Wapuu

    Introducing the WP Tavern Wapuu

    The Wapuu craze has spread far and wide. From its origin in Japan, to WordCamp London, and across the US, Wapuu has become quite the traveler. While the mascot has mostly represented WordCamps, site owners are creating a custom version of the mascot to represent their sites. Michelle Schulp, a graphic designer who runs Marktimemedia,…

  • Brighton, UK to Host Europe’s First BuddyCamp

    Brighton, UK to Host Europe’s First BuddyCamp

    BuddyPress fans, mark your calendars! BuddyCamp Brighton, Europe’s very first BuddyPress conference, is just two months away. The event will be held at Clearleft’s 68 Middle Street venue on August 8, 2015. This venue has a maximum capacity of 60 people, so tickets are likely to sell out fast. BuddyPress lead developer Paul Gibbs and…

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