When widgets were added to the customizer in 3.9, WordPress users were generally surprised and delighted. Live previews are so beneficial to the editing experience that contributors are starting to pursue an expansion of the role of the customizer into all aspects of WordPress. Nick Halsey has been working extensively with the customizer as part…
Some of the best collaborations and discussions happen at WordCamps. While attending the WordCamp Seattle contributor day last month, Siobhan McKeown, Mike Schroder, Morten Rand-Hendriksen, and Sonja Leix began some preliminary discussions on how they could improve the image editing experience in WordPress. The current state of WordPress image editing is functional with basic rotation…
Dribbble was founded as a community for designers in 2009 and has since grown to become a profitable company and a popular source for inspiration on the web. The site provides a social outlet for designers, allowing members to share samples of their work and get feedback from other professionals and enthusiasts. While you may…
WordPress 4.0 will be introducing some major internationalization improvements that will make it much easier to set up and use the software in languages other than English. A few weeks ago, WordPress lead developer Andrew Nacin published a plan with internationalization goals for 4.0. “Only 5%-10% of the world speaks English,” Nacin said at WordCamp…
When using WordPress to manage a large number of pages with content structured 2-3 levels deep, the native UI doesn’t make it easy to visualize where new content is being created. Thanks to the vast world of plugins, WordPress can easily be shaped to suit a more page-oriented website. Clarity is a plugin that provides…
Koding is an online development environment where you can create and run apps in the cloud. The platform encourages collaboration and social interaction with an integrated activity stream where you can post status updates, code snippets and topics for discussion. Koding includes an Ace code editor and a Linux terminal to your own private virtual…
It’s somewhat unusual for WordPress theme developers to take bbPress into consideration when building themes. Styles and templates for bbPress compatibility usually constitute unnecessary weight for users who don’t have the plugin active on their sites. One smart way to add bbPress support to a theme is through a plugin. This is exactly what Justin…
If you spend enough time in the WordPress post editor, you’ll soon discover the minor annoyance of not being able to assign a featured image from the media modal after clicking on the “Add Media” button. You’re required to use the “Set Featured Image” link in the editor’s sidebar in order to do it. But…
Patience for CAPTCHAs is wearing thin these days. There’s nothing more annoying than being slowed down by a virtually illegible mess of letters and numbers. The audio CAPTCHAs are reminiscent of your worst nightmares and are even more baffling than the visual ones. Despite the fact that everyone groans inside when landing upon a CAPTCHA,…
The security research team at Sucuri has discovered a vulnerability in the popular WordPress MailPoet Plugin, formerly known as WYSIJA Newsletters. The bug leaves MailPoet open to an attack wherein a file can be uploaded remotely without authentication. Sucuri is classifying this as a serious vulnerability and recommends an immediate update for anyone using the…
WP-CLI 0.16 was released today with help from contributors at WordCamp Seattle. Cron management is the headline feature in this release, and you can now check all scheduled cron events: $ wp cron event list This will output the hook from which the WP-Cron event is fired, next_run_gmt, next_run_relative, and the recurrence (i.e. 12hrs, 1…
WPSeek is a search engine for WordPress functions, filters, actions, and constants. The site, created by Oliver Schlöbe, has been serving developers and theme authors for more than five years. A couple months ago, Schlöbe released a free WPSeek Android app, making the function reference and search engine easy to browse on Android devices. The…
Pocket is a handy service for saving articles to read later. It has mobile apps for every platform and its own reader that makes any content easy to read on the go. Once in awhile you read an article that really inspires you. Pocket’s tagging feature makes it possible to share those articles on your…
WordCamp Europe organizers announced today that tickets are now on sale for this year’s event, which will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on September 27th – 29th. Last year’s event was by all accounts a smashing success and included diverse attendees from around the world. Approximately 70% of those in attendance flew in from outside…
Embedded content with external requests can really slow a site down. This is especially true when the requests cannot be cached and the content would be impossible to host on your own domain, i.e. third party videos from Youtube and Vimeo. Calling external resources in these instances is unavoidable, but it doesn’t have to drag…