Month: June 2016

  • PHP[World] 2016 Call for Speakers Now Open, WordPress Sessions Welcome

    PHP[World] 2016 Call for Speakers Now Open, WordPress Sessions Welcome

    PHP[World] 2016 will be held November 14-18 in Washington, D.C. This will be the third edition of the conference, which aims to bring together the various sub-communities that are linked by the PHP programming language (including Drupal, WordPress, CakePHP, Magento, Laravel, and others.) The call for speakers opened today and organizers welcome submissions from the…

  • WordPress Feature Idea: Add oEmbed Support to Comments

    WordPress Feature Idea: Add oEmbed Support to Comments

    One of my favorite features in WordPress is the ability to easily embed content from services such as YouTube by copying and pasting the source URL into the post editor. The feature is called oEmbed and was added seven years ago to WordPress 2.9. While content authors enjoy the luxury of easily embedding content, commenters…

  • WPWeekly Episode 238 – Interview with Adam Warner SiteLock’s WordPress Evangelist

    WPWeekly Episode 238 – Interview with Adam Warner SiteLock’s WordPress Evangelist

    In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I are joined by Adam Warner, SiteLock’s WordPress evangelist. Warner describes how he got involved with WordPress and how it helped shape his career. We discuss his crowdfunding campaign to democratize publishing which didn’t turn out so well. Near the end of the interview, we learn…

  • Ahmad Awais Releases WordPress Customizer Package for Sublime Text

    Ahmad Awais Releases WordPress Customizer Package for Sublime Text

    Like many developers just getting started with the WordPress Customizer API, Ahmad Awais began with frameworks like Kirki, Redux, and Titan. After a short time, Awais discovered the problem with using frameworks in his projects. “It quickly became hard to deal with the updates, backward compatibility, and then code quality especially concerning security,” he said.…

  • Brad Touesnard on Why Clients Should Own their Plugin Licenses

    Brad Touesnard on Why Clients Should Own their Plugin Licenses

    Brad Touesnard, Founder of Delicious Brains, explains why clients should own the licenses purchased by developers if the plugin is an integral part of the project. Sometimes developers who purchase licenses fail to keep them updated or keep in touch with clients. “Worst case scenario: The client never updates the plugin and eventually it breaks…

  • Google Fonts Gets a Redesign

    Google Fonts Gets a Redesign

    Google Fonts is sporting a fresh new design that makes it much easier to browse. The catalog of free and open source fonts first launched in 2010 with 14 fonts and has grown to host more than 800 today. In addition to being viewed across the web over 15 billion times per day in 135…

  • GravityForms 2.0 Released Featuring reCAPTCHA 2.0, Security Hardening, and More

    GravityForms 2.0 Released Featuring reCAPTCHA 2.0, Security Hardening, and More

    After more than a year in development, Gravity Forms 2.0 is available for download. This release contains a number of new features and developer enhancements. Conditional logic is now supported by more fields and can be used on multi-input fields such as Name and Address. The underlying code contains improvements that provide the foundation for upcoming…

  • WooCommerce 2.6 Introduces Shipping Zones and a New Design for Account Pages

    WooCommerce 2.6 Introduces Shipping Zones and a New Design for Account Pages

    After five months in development and 1700 commits from 25 contributors, WooCommerce 2.6 “Zipping Zebra” is now available. This release introduces a new feature called Shipping Zones, which allows store owners to have more flexibility in pricing shipping based on location. It is now possible to create zones that group continents, countries, states, and zip…

  • Canapé: An Elegant Free Restaurant Theme for WordPress

    Canapé: An Elegant Free Restaurant Theme for WordPress

    There is nothing worse than visiting a restaurant website and having to download a PDF in order to view the menu, especially when browsing on mobile. This is one of the most clunky, inconvenient experiences on the web. Unfortunately, when visitors encounter a PDF menu, it’s often because restaurant owners don’t have websites that are…

  • WordCamp Northeast Ohio a Smashing Success

    WordCamp Northeast Ohio a Smashing Success

    This past weekend I attended WordCamp North East Ohio held in downtown Kent, OH, organized by Rich Robinkoff and Angela Bergmann. The Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center served as the venue and main hotel for the event. The convenience of having the hotel and venue be in the same building can not be…

  • Pressable Rolls Back Database Change that Caused Customer Sites to Display Gibberish Content

    Pressable Rolls Back Database Change that Caused Customer Sites to Display Gibberish Content

    Over the weekend managed WordPress host Pressable performed an accidental change to its customers’ databases causing character set issues that caused some sites to display certain characters as gibberish. The company’s system operators published the following status update today: On Friday, June 10th, at 17:37 UTC (12:37PM Central) we accidentally deployed a platform-wide change that…

  • Shiny Updates Approved for Partial Merge Into WordPress 4.6

    Shiny Updates Approved for Partial Merge Into WordPress 4.6

    The Shiny Updates project was approved for partial merge today during an additional meeting designated for reviewing improvements added within the last week. A decision was expected last week but was delayed after contributors discovered that the plugin required three more audits to be ready for merge. Drew Jaynes completed a documentation audit and Dominik…

  • Finding WordPress in the Post-Print News Era

    Finding WordPress in the Post-Print News Era

    For the first time in history, more Americans are working for online publications than for traditional print newspapers. In his report on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, NiemanLab’s Joseph Lichterman succinctly summarizes the slow death of the American newspaper: It’s safe to assume that newspaper jobs will continue to evaporate. Most small…

  • Critical Vulnerability Patched in EWWW Image Optimizer Plugin

    Critical Vulnerability Patched in EWWW Image Optimizer Plugin

    Yesterday the security team at Wordfence disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the EWWW Image Optimizer to Shane Bishiop, the plugin’s author. Bishop acted quickly to patch the plugin and an update was pushed out to WordPress.org users this morning. According to Wordfence, the vulnerability affects multisite WordPress installations, allowing an attacker to…

  • A Week of REST Developer Workshop to be Held in Matlock, Derbyshire in September

    A Week of REST Developer Workshop to be Held in Matlock, Derbyshire in September

    Matlock, Derbyshire, formerly known as a picturesque spa resort town, will be host to the next WordPress REST API conference organized by Human Made the week of September 5-9. A Week of REST is designed to be an immersive bootcamp experience for developers who want to learn how to build websites and applications using the…

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