WordPress core contributors came to a consensus today during the development meeting regarding the immediate future of the JSON REST API project. Ryan McCue and his team released version 1.0 over the weekend and have been pushing hard for it to be ready for the upcoming 4.0 release. When I spoke with McCue yesterday about…
Late last week, Yan Zhu, a Staff Technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation publicly disclosed a security vulnerability she discovered with WordPress.com and how it handles cookies. More specifically, she discovered the “wordpress_logged_in” cookie being sent in the clear to a WordPress authentication endpoint. She was able to use the authenticated cookie to publish blog…
WordCamp Miami is one of the largest WordPress events in operation, with 770+ attendees and a large group of organizers and volunteers who turned out for its most recent 5th anniversary edition. It ran earlier this month with four days (Thursday – Sunday) packed full of activities. Multiple venues, parking areas, presentation tracks, catering and…
Today marks 11 years since the very first official public release of WordPress. Reading through that changelog will make you smile and realize how far the software has come since the early days when its main competitors were Textpattern and Movable Type. Fast forward 11 years and WordPress now powers 22% of the web with…
Apple has a new advertisement for iPad, featuring Chérie King, whose WordPress-powered Flight of the Travel Bee blog is dedicated to helping deaf people discover the joy of traveling. Her story can be found at apple.com/cherie and is included as part of the “What will your verse be?” campaign. The first video beautifully captures Chérie’s…
The results of the 2014 bbPress survey are now available. The survey was conducted between March 7 – April 11, 2014. 183 people from 37 countries participated. The survey gave users a chance to give feedback and shape the direction of bbPress development throughout 2014. A common complaint I often hear is the lack of…
Version 1.0 of the JSON REST API plugin was released over the weekend, adding new user, revision and post meta endpoints. This release also introduces the project’s new long-term backwards compatibility policy for its internal PHP API and REST API, which will not be broken from this point forward as new endpoints and data are…
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, we were joined by Drew Strojny, founder of The Theme Foundry, to discuss their latest product, Make. Make is a free, drag and drop theme that makes it easy to manipulate the design of pages. In the interview, Strojny explains why Make is available for free and why the…
At the contributor day event for WordCamp San Francisco 2013, breakout sessions were created to explore ideas on the best ways to teach people how to work with WordPress themes. One of the ideas being pursued are lesson modules. The modules explain all the aspects of developing, editing, and learning about themes. Despite a lot…
From time to time, a WordPress site has the requirement of keeping users’ media uploads separated. It helps keep things a little more streamlined on multi-author sites where many authors are publishing and regularly adding files to the media library. WP Users Media is a new plugin that disables the ability for all users to…
WordCamp Vancouver is gearing up for its fourth year and will be held on Saturday July 26th, 2014, at the BCIT Downtown Campus, in Vancouver. The event’s organization team announced this week that this year’s camp will be a “developer edition,” catering to the area’s tech community. The day will be focused on topics for…
Last October, Matt Medeiros launched his WordPress Startup Challenge with hopes of validating the WordPress startup scene while building a stronger sense of community among entrepreneurs. At that time he also created a WordPress Entrepreneur group on Google+ to help connect those whose businesses are based on WordPress. Medeiros is the host of the Matt…
If you’re using Varying Vagrant Vagrants for WordPress development, the VVV Site Wizard, created by Alison Barrett, is a must-have tool for setting up new sites and deleting old ones. It’s a bash script that completely automates the otherwise lengthy process of adding a new site to VVV. If you already have VVV up and…
Have you ever requested support for WordPress only to have someone request information related to your webhosting server configuration? Typically, you’d have to create a php.info file and send them a link to it. Depending on the person’s skill set, this can be a difficult task, let alone interpreting the information the file provides. The…
Soon after the release of Jetpack 3.0, users reported problems with the spell check module which utilizes the After The Deadline service. In Jetpack 3.0, when users proofread a post, they are greeted with a General 500 error. The error also shows up if you’ve configured it to automatically proofread a post before publishing. The…