WordPress for iOS: Version 5.4 is available on the app store and includes a couple of new features. To compliment the improvements to stats in 5.3, 5.4 adds a new stats screen called insights. Insights is similar to the Right Now widget in the WordPress dashboard in that it displays a summary of key statistics…
This post was contributed by Emily Miller. A native Hoosier, Emily now lives in San Francisco, CA, and is a content specialist at hosting platform Pantheon. She enjoys exploring the great outdoors with her dog and researching the latest trends in open source. WordPress developers are getting serious about developing flexible, powerful websites of all sizes.…
While on stage at WordCamp Europe answering a question related to WordPress’ security track record, Matt Mullenweg named Nikolay Bachiyski as the first Security Czar for the WordPress project. I interviewed Bachiyski to learn why the role was created and what its purpose is. What are the responsibilities of your new role? My responsibilities are…
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I are joined by Kiko Doran, co-organizer of Prestige conference. Doran describes how he discovered WordPress in 2009 and explains the origin of Prestige, a career and business development conference. We discuss the mantra of family first and how Brazilian Jiu Jitsu helps him in his…
When organizing teams in different cities applied to host WordCamp US earlier this year, they provided a substantial amount of information through the application process. While Philadelphia will host the event in 2015 and 2016, their application is not public information. Juliana Reyes, who writes for Technical.ly Philly, acquired and published a few of the…
ThemeConf is a new conference set to take place September 2nd-4th, 2015, in Keswick, England aimed at front-end developers and designers. Confirmed speakers include a handful of Automattic theme wranglers, Noel Tock of Human Made, freelancer Adam Onishi, and Chris Hutchinson of The Times. The session schedule is expected to be released later this week however, here…
The WordPress project achieved a milestone earlier today as the official WordPress plugin directory surpassed one billion total downloads. According to Scott Reilly who helps maintain WordPress.org, we’ll never know which plugin generated the one billionth download. That’s because WordPress.org doesn’t log information that matches downloads to plugins. “A download counter exists for each plugin…
If you enjoy skiing and WordPress, mark your calendars for SkiPress, November 21-28, 2015. SkiPress is a week long excursion to Serre Chevalier, a ski resort in the French Alps. The cottage can hold up to 15 people where attendees can ski, discuss WordPress, develop code, or disconnect from technology. Bernard-Jacquet who writes for WP-spread, and…
WordPress is licensed under the GPLv2 and the four freedoms it allows is considered to be its Bill of Rights. The four freedoms are: The freedom to run the program, for any purpose. The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish. The freedom to…
On this week’s episode, Marcus Couch and I talk about the news of the week, including the release of WordPress 4.2.4 which patches six security vulnerabilities. I shared my experience attending Prestige last weekend while Marcus describes what it was like to watch the livestream. Marcus and I closed out the show with a candid…
Netanel Rubin, a vulnerability researcher for Check Point Software and credited for properly disclosing a security vulnerability to WordPress, published the first in a trilogy of posts that explains how he discovered it. The vulnerability was discovered during a full audit of WordPress’ code base in which Rubin praised the efforts of the WordPress development…
At Prestige over the weekend, I heard a presenter say that family comes first. This isn’t the first time I’ve heard this advice but it’s becoming more prevalent. I generally hear this advice from those who are living comfortably, have two kids or more, and/or have gone through the startup process more than once. I’m…
WordPress 4.2.4 is available and patches six security vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities were discovered by outside parties and members of the WordPress core security team. This release also fixes four bugs: WPDB: When checking the encoding of strings against the database, make sure we’re only relying on the return value of strings that were sent to…
Over the weekend, I attended Prestige, a conference geared towards freelancers, entrepreneurs, and small agencies looking to grow their businesses. Unlike WordCamps, plugins, themes, and WordPress in general were rarely mentioned. Instead, sessions included high level topics such as, how to land enterprise clients, knowing when to move on to the next big thing, and…
If you use the sharing feature on WordPress.com, you may have noticed an anomaly between your post title and what’s shared to social services. Since the post title is the first field to complete when writing a post, it makes sense to fill it in even if it’s a work in progress. The sharing module on…