Matt Mullenweg announced that Philadelphia, PA, will host WordCamp US December 4th–6th at the Pennsylvania Convention center. Philadelphia will also host WordCamp US in 2016, although no dates have been chosen yet. According to Mullenweg, “Having it the same place two years in a row allows us to keep logistics a set variable and really…
WordPress users in the Americas woke this morning to find update notices in their inboxes due to a critical security vulnerability. WordPress 4.2.3 was released today and automatically pushed out to sites that have auto-updates enabled. Because this is a security release for all previous versions of WordPress, those who do not have automatic update…
In June of 2010, WordPress 3.0 Thelonious was released with the historic merge of WordPress MU into core and the debut of the brand new Twenty Ten default theme. This pivotal release also gave developers the ability to register their own custom post types. Expanding WordPress’ custom content capabilities beyond simple posts and pages has…
When menu management was proposed to be merged into WordPress 4.3, a common complaint expressed by readers was that clicking the Widgets menu item in the admin bar loads the customizer instead of the Widgets admin screen. WordPress 4.3 separates the management interfaces by moving the Customize link to the top-level menu of the admin…
We now know when Matt Mullenweg discovered Chris Pearson changed Thesis’ license from split GPL to a proprietary one. On April 1st 2014, Siobhan McKeown interviewed Matt Mullenweg for the WordPress history book. In the interview, we learn about the history of WordPress themes, the GPL, how Automattic unintentionally created the commercial theme market, why…
BuddyPress 2.2 introduced a Member Type API, which allows developers to register their own unique member types, i.e. teacher, student, coach, etc. This was an exciting addition to BuddyPress but not very accessible to non-technical community managers, since it requires writing your own plugin to utilize it. BP Member Type Generator is a new plugin…
Nick Haskins, the founder and lead developer of Lasso, is rebranding the product after being served a cease and desist letter. A few days ago, Haskins was served a cease and desist letter from LassoSoft. According to LassoSoft, “Lasso is a development platform and is the easiest, quickest and most secure method of supporting custom,…
In March, the Shortcake project officially began its journey as a feature plugin with regular meetings for contributors working to make it ready to propose for inclusion in WordPress core. The plugin provides a friendly UI for adding shortcodes and transforms them to render a nice preview in the visual editor. Last week, Daniel Bachhuber…
WP Rocket is celebrating its second year in business. The commercial caching plugin for WordPress launched two years ago in the French market and opened its doors to international customers last May. At that time, WP Rocket was entering unproven territory as the first major caching plugin to launch with a 100% commercial model. Could…
In a post titled “The Truth About Thesis.com,” Chris Pearson responded to the recent heated discussions about his legal battle with Automattic over the Thesis.com domain and related trademarks. His public response revives a five-year old licensing disagreement. “I think the most important place to start is by asking: Why would Automattic—a website software company…
WordPress has a whitelist of 31 trusted sites from which users can oEmbed content, but one source is noticeably missing – WordPress itself. During this week’s feature plugin chat, Pascal Birchler and a group of contributors proposed the idea of oEmbed for WordPress Posts: Basically, we want to make WordPress an oEmbed provider. Users should…
Ben Word and the team behind Roots are launching a new WordPress-related podcast called Roots Radio. Earlier this year, Word rebranded the Roots starter theme as “Sage” under the Roots organization as part of a long-term plan to make it framework-agnostic. Opening up the starter theme to be available for use with a variety of…
WordPress 4.3 beta 3 was released this week right on schedule, and beta 4 is expected to arrive next Wednesday. This release includes more than 140 fixes and improvements since last week’s beta. One of the most important changes you’ll notice is that the Site Icon feature is now available in the customizer in addition…
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I preview WordPress 4.3. We discuss what WordPress.tv should do with old videos now that the site is six years old. There’s a conference this weekend devoted to the Genesis Framework and we let you know how you can watch it for free. Theme translations and…
Consumer disappointment ran high yesterday when Amazon Prime Day failed to deliver on its ambitious claim to have “more deals than Black Friday.” Prime customers were surprised to find modest deals on knee braces, shoe horns, and pet grooming kits instead of steep discounts on shiny electronics. https://twitter.com/shave_my_lemon/status/621462914533232640 The world was optimistic that if any…