Jeff Chandler

  • How to Find the Age of a Plugin Hosted in the WordPress Plugin Directory

    How to Find the Age of a Plugin Hosted in the WordPress Plugin Directory

    The WordPress plugin directory provides information such as version requirements, compatibility, last updated, and active installs for plugins. What it doesn’t tell you is how old a plugin is. A new site called Age WP Plugin created by Ahmad Awais and Maedah Batool makes finding this information easy. Simply type in a plugin’s slug into…

  • GoDaddy Acquires Sucuri

    GoDaddy Acquires Sucuri

    GoDaddy has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sucuri Security. Sucuri, founded by Daniel Cid and co-founded by Tony Perez in 2010, is a website security platform that helps clean and protect websites. Details of the deal were not disclosed. Like ManageWP, Sucuri will operate as a separate entity under the…

  • Help Jesse Petersen and His Family by Donating to His Medical Leave Fund

    Help Jesse Petersen and His Family by Donating to His Medical Leave Fund

    Jesse Petersen, a longtime member of the WordPress community and founder of Genesis The.me, needs our help. Petersen is battling Cystic Fibrosis and earlier this year after visiting a clinic, discovered that his lung function was at 22%. Due to decrease lung function, Petersen missed five weeks of work, required home IVs, and visited many…

  • Adding Images to WordPress Sidebars Is About to Get a Lot Easier

    Adding Images to WordPress Sidebars Is About to Get a Lot Easier

    Adding images to sidebars in WordPress is a cumbersome task that requires users to upload an image to the Media Library, find the URL, copy it, and paste it into a Text widget along with additional HTML. Nearly two years ago, Mel Choyce opened a ticket on WordPress Trac proposing that a media widget be…

  • In Case You Missed It – Issue 19

    In Case You Missed It – Issue 19

    There’s a lot of great WordPress content published in the community but not all of it is featured on the Tavern. This post is an assortment of items related to WordPress that caught my eye but didn’t make it into a full post. Apple Pay for WooCommerce WooCommerce announced that Apple Pay is now available…

  • How to View Upcoming WordCamps in the WordPress Dashboard

    How to View Upcoming WordCamps in the WordPress Dashboard

    Over the course of a year, WordCamps take place nearly every weekend. Although you can view upcoming events on WordCamp Central, a relatively new plugin exist that enables you to see upcoming WordCamps on the WordPress Dashboard. It’s called WordCamp Dashboard Widget developed by Ajit Bohra. Once activated, a new widget appears on the dashboard…

  • WPWeekly Episode 267 – Interview With Aaron D. Campbell, WordPress Security Team Lead

    WPWeekly Episode 267 – Interview With Aaron D. Campbell, WordPress Security Team Lead

    In this episode, Marcus Couch and I are joined by Aaron D. Campbell, WordPress Security Team Lead. Campbell provides insight into who’s on the team and what they do behind the scenes to coordinate security releases. We discuss the complex nature of disclosures, when to publish them, and how much information they should have. In…

  • WooCommerce 3.0.0 Scheduled for Release April 4th

    WooCommerce 3.0.0 Scheduled for Release April 4th

    Big changes are on the way for WooCommerce. Mike Jolley, lead developer of WooCommerce, announced that WooCommerce 2.7 will be versioned 3.0.0 with a scheduled release date of April 4th. During the 2.7 beta testing phase, the team discovered a significant bug in the way that timestamps are handled. “Essentially, some developers need a way…

  • WordPress.com Updates Its Post Editor With a Distraction-Free Interface

    WordPress.com Updates Its Post Editor With a Distraction-Free Interface

    WordPress.com has unveiled a refreshed post editor that makes content front and center. The most noticeable change is the user interface. The sidebar of meta boxes is now on the right-hand side instead of the left. Clicking the Post Settings link hides the sidebar, providing a cleaner interface. The preview and publish buttons are no…

  • In Case You Missed It – Issue 18

    In Case You Missed It – Issue 18

    There’s a lot of great WordPress content published in the community but not all of it is featured on the Tavern. This post is an assortment of items related to WordPress that caught my eye but didn’t make it into a full post. The REST API Democratizes Reading Mika Epstein explains how the WordPress REST API…

  • WeFoster Launches Hosting Platform Catered to Online Communities

    WeFoster Launches Hosting Platform Catered to Online Communities

    WeFoster, co-founded by Marion Gooding and Bowe Frankema, is a new managed hosting platform fine-tuned specifically for online communities. The duo came up with the idea for WeFoster two years ago at WordCamp London 2015. “Bowe and I sat down and thought of ideas on how we could contribute to the open source community,” Gooding…

  • WPWeekly Episode 266 – Clef Is Shutting Down, Configuring User Avatars, and WPCampus 2017

    WPWeekly Episode 266 – Clef Is Shutting Down, Configuring User Avatars, and WPCampus 2017

    In this episode, Marcus Couch and I discuss the stories that are making headlines including, Clef shutting down, WordPress 4.7.3, and WordPress.com’s new add-on for Chrome. I shared two lessons I recently learned from managing a site that has open registration and uses BuddyPress. We also share details of WPCampus 2017. Stories Discussed: WordPress 4.7.3…

  • Clef is Shutting Down June 6th

    Clef is Shutting Down June 6th

    Clef, a two-factor authentication service founded in 2013 has announced that it is discontinuing its product. Clef is most well known for removing the burden of remembering usernames and passwords by replacing them with a 300 character key using mobile cryptography. The service’s WordPress plugin is active on more than 1M sites and has been removed from the directory.…

  • Configuring a User Avatar in WordPress Is Not as Easy as It Should Be

    Configuring a User Avatar in WordPress Is Not as Easy as It Should Be

    I maintain a website with active user registration and a common support question I’m asked is, “How do I change my profile picture?” The answer is not easy as it should be. WordPress’ profile image system is powered by Gravatar, an Automattic owned service. It replaced the old method of uploading a profile picture in…