John James Jacoby, lead developer of bbPress and BuddyPress, published a 35 part tweetstorm sharing his thoughts on leadership in the WordPress project, the community, and the WordPress economy. A tweetstorm is a series of tweets linked together in chronological order around a particular topic. There are a number of useful nuggets of wisdom in…
If you find yourself wanting more control over the columns on the posts, post types, pages, media, comments, links, and users administration screens, take a look at the Admin Columns plugin. Admin Columns, developed by Codepress, is a free plugin that is actively installed on more than 60K sites that enables administrators to add, remove, and rearrange columns. Each…
When WP Rocket entered the market three years ago, the product was positioned against established solutions like WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, Hyper Cache, and a raft of other free plugins. WP Media, the product’s parent company, was the first to explore a completely commercial model of monetizing a WordPress caching plugin, with no…
Fans of artist Dennis Cooper are concerned about Google’s mysterious removal of his 14-year-old blog approximately two weeks ago. Cooper, a novelist and performance artist known for his controversial subject material, fears that Google may be censoring his work but hasn’t received an explanation. After contacting Google via multiple channels, Cooper received a statement about…
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. Make WordPress Slack Fast Again If you experience sluggish performance with Slack while connected…
This week Nick Halsey published his new Featured Audio plugin to the WordPress Plugin Directory. Halsey, a WordPress core contributor and a musician, created the plugin to provide a solution that would associate audio files with posts in the same way that WordPress supports featured images out of the box. The plugin works with any…
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I discuss the news of the week including, Jetpack 4.1, an event aimed at new and introverted WordCamp attendees, Aesop Story Engine, and more. This episode is only 35 minutes in length as I was dealing with severe weather so it should be easy to digest.…
WPCampus, the first WordPress event focused on using the platform in higher education takes place July 14-15 in Sarasota, FL. For those not able to attend in person, you can watch a free livestream of the event starting tomorrow morning at 9AM Eastern. In August of 2015, Rachel Carden, one of the event’s primary organizers, published the following…
John James Jacoby, lead developer of bbPress, has released bbPress 2.5.10 to patch a security vulnerability in all previous versions of the 2.X branch. This release also contains security hardening improvements where user display names and avatars are commonly displayed together. Jacoby notes that these changes affect bbPress only and don’t impact third-party themes or modifications to the…
Development for the BuddyPress 2.7 release cycle kicked off this week led by @mercime. Contributors chimed in during this week’s meeting to identify their wishlist items for 2.7. Beta 1 is expected September 21 and the official release is scheduled for October 12. During last week’s meeting, lead developers John James Jacoby, Boone Gorges, and…
Codeable.io, an outsourcing marketplace for WordPress projects, announced a new partnership with Automattic today, along with a share buyback from some of the company’s early investors. Tomaž Zaman and Per Esbensen bootstrapped the company for the first couple of months after founding it in 2012, prior to receiving a $75K investment from three business angels.…
For newcomers, attending WordCamps can be an intimidating experience, especially if you don’t know anyone at the event. A new experimental event called WordCamp Warmup, aims to alleviate the intimidation factor. WordCamp Warmup is part of WordCamp Ann Arbor that takes place October 14-15 at the University of Michigan. The event is the brainchild of Rebecca Gill,…
This weekend, WordCamp New York City takes place at the United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology. The event offers everything you’d expect at a WordCamp including multiple tracks of sessions and a contributor day. Behind the scenes however, WordCamp NYC is part of a large initiative that includes a number of open source…
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” This is a common mindset among WordPress users who don’t regularly update their themes and plugins. The fear of an update breaking something is often stronger than the desire to gain enhancements and security fixes. Why improve something that already works perfectly well? Antti Kuosmanen, founder of Seravo.com,…
In a recent interview on the WordPress Weekly podcast, when asked about his comments at WordCamp US regarding customization being the biggest opportunity to improve the WordPress experience, Matt Mullenweg said, “The Customizer is everything.” He followed it up by saying that customizing sites via both the Customizer and themes is currently the platform’s weakest…