Shortcake, a plugin that adds a UI to make shortcodes more user friendly, is now an official WordPress feature plugin. The project is led by Daniel Bachhuber, currently the interim director of engineering at Fusion, the company where Shortcake originated. Contributors include Matthew Haines-Young and the folks at Human Made. The plugin is being developed…
The WordPress REST API plugin version 1.2 was released today after roughly nine months of development. Version 1.1 was released in June 2014 with the addition of taxonomies and terms routes and a focus on increasing test coverage for all endpoints. Version 1.2 has test coverage for taxonomies and terms at 98%. Meta is 87%…
On the first day of WordCamp London 2015, I was meandering around the Happiness Bar when I first noticed the punk wapuu stickers covering the swag table. “These are so damn cute!” I muttered out loud. Admittedly, I can’t get enough of wapuu, and every new variation inspires shrieks of delight. Scott Evans, an organizer…
WordCamp London 2015 was held at the London Metropolitan University this weekend. The sold-out event attracted 600 attendees from the local UK WordPress communities and beyond. In selecting a theme for the event, organizers drew inspiration from London’s punk subculture, which emerged in the mid-1970’s. The posters, lanyards, t-shirts, and custom wapuu designs all exemplified…
Local Pakistani news sources are reporting that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has demanded that local internet service providers block access to WordPress.com. Traffic originating from all major Pakistani ISPs will not be able to view sites hosted on WordPress.com. Self-hosted WordPress sites currently remain unaffected. An anonymous source told ProPakistani.pk that the content causing…
WordCamp London 2015 kicked off this morning with Contributor Day. 100 attendees convened at the graduate center on Holloway Road for a full day of giving back to WordPress, BuddyPress, and GlotPress. Contributors wrote and tested patches, created documentation, answered support questions, and collaborated on marketing materials.
Last August, Automattic acquired Parka, LLC, the makers of the BruteProtect security tool for WordPress, with the goal of integrating its features into Jetpack. The services provided in BruteProtect Pro were subsequently offered for free. Jetpack 3.4 was released today with brute force protection available to users via a new module called Protect. You can…
Every year Frito-Lay pulls in billions of dollars from sales of its flagship assortment of potato chips, including Fritos, Cheetos, Doritos, Tostitos, and Ruffles. Behind all of these crunchy snacks is a busy hive of designers and project managers who require a robust system for working together on creative projects. Last year, Frito-Lay approached Lift,…
Tidy Repo has been pumping out WordPress plugin reviews since 2013. Today co-owners Jay Hoffman and and Jack McConnell are branching out to launch a new service that helps customers find a plugin for a $35 fee. The Tidy Repo plugin recommendation service is the first of its kind. With more than 36,000 plugins listed…
Last month a vulnerability was discovered in the Fancybox for WordPress plugin, making it possible for a hacker to inject an iframe into the website without needing administrator access. Although the issue was promptly patched, a string of seemingly random WordPress websites were recently compromised using this vulnerability. Hackers claiming to be acting on behalf…
Ultimate Member is the newest plugin to join the ranks of WordPress membership solutions after seven months in development. One month after landing in the WordPress.org directory, the plugin is already active on more than 2,000 WordPress sites and has received a 5-star rating from 73/75 reviewers. The WordPress ecosystem is flush with both free…
Last week a blind SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in Yoast’s popular WordPress SEO plugin. Given the severity of the vulnerability and the fact that the plugin is installed on more than one million WordPress sites, the security team at WordPress.org pushed a forced update to mitigate the possibility of mass exploitation. Following this incident,…
The BuddyPress Live Notification plugin was originally released in 2011. Brajesh Singh, prolific plugin author and founder of BuddyDev, created the plugin to provide Facebook-style real-time notifications for users. Over the past four years, a number of significant changes in both WordPress and BuddyPress have necessitated a complete rewrite of the extension. The 2.0 version…
When a critical security vulnerability was discovered in Yoast’s SEO plugin this week, WordPress.org took the initiative to automatically update users’ sites with the patched version of the plugin. Many users were taken by surprise, given that the WordPress codex clearly stated that automatic plugin and theme updates are disabled by default. Shortly after the…
WordPress 4.2 beta 1 is now available for early testers to download. It’s “pencils down” time for core contributors as far as new feature requests are concerned. This is the point in the release cycle where contributors are focusing their efforts on bug fixes and inline documentation. Drew Jaynes, the 4.2 release lead, posted the…