This week Audit WP launched a new SEO consultancy, headed up by SEO strategist Jacob King. The firm’s first order of business after launching was to publish a post to expose what King perceives to be important SEO and privacy concerns for customers of managed WordPress host WP Engine. Audit WP uncovered more than 1.5…
WordPress.com made a big move to branch out into hosted e-commerce this week. For $299/year, Business users get unlimited access to premium themes, unlimited storage, live chat and email support, custom domains, no ads and the newest feature: “hassle-free” e-commerce. The company opted to offer its new online stores via partnerships with three hosted e-commerce…
One of the biggest features to land in WordPress 3.7 were automatic updates. When automatic updates are completed, an email notification is sent to the address specified within Settings > General which is typically the website administrator. However, if you maintain websites for clients, you probably want those notifications to be forwarded to you and…
Chris Wiegman of iThemes has announced the latest update to the Better WP Security plugin contains fixes for vulnerabilities discovered in 3.6.3. The updates address compatibility with InfiniteWP, the removal of their in-dashboard support form, and FooPlugins support form code. While support for InfiniteWP was removed in 3.6.4, it’s been restored in 3.6.5 as they…
WordPress has been approved to participate in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) as a mentoring organization for 2014. GSoC is a global program that offers promising students an opportunity to contribute code to open source projects with a stipend provided by Google. Last year 1,192 students were part of the program. The 2014 program…
When WordPress theme shops build typography options into their themes, they almost universally opt for integrating Google Fonts. It’s no wonder, given that Google fonts are free, easy to browse and generally fast-loading. The Theme Foundry is one of the first to step outside the box to integrate commercial fonts into their themes, via a…
Admin Bookmarks developed by Brad Vincent, allows you easily bookmark posts, pages and custom post types. This is especially useful if you find yourself repeatedly editing the same pages or posts. Upon activation, a new dashicon in the shape of a star will appear next to the title of every post, page, and custom post…
Jetpack 2.9 was released today with the long-awaited Related Posts module, which was introduced on WordPress.com in early November 2013. Server resource-intensive features such as stats tracking and related posts are very difficult to accomplish in an efficient way. Jetpack’s new Related Posts module uses WordPress.com resources to do this instead, which is undoubtedly a…
Tony Perez and Dre Armeda of Sucuri Security will be our special guests on this weeks edition of WordPress Weekly. We’ll spend the majority of the episode talking about WordPress security and what users can do to protect themselves against the bad guys. We’ll also figure out why the company was founded and what trends…
WordPress.org profiles are set to get a revamp in the very near future. Jen Mylo posted yeseterday, asking for thoughts and ideas about what to incorporate into the new profiles. She will be working with Mel Choyce to design a new UI for the profile data. Mylo also initiated an effort to get speaker information…
WP Hotkeys is a plugin developed by McGuive7 and MIGHTYminnow that adds the ability to navigate the backend of WordPress with just a keyboard using shortcuts. The plugin works out of the box with a predefined set of hotkeys for each standard dashboard menu item. If you don’t want to see the shortcut helpers in…
WP Contributor Day is a new WordPress event that is coming up this weekend. It will be held Saturday, March 1st, 2014, in Manchester, England from 10:00 – 18:00. The goal is to have eight solid hours of contributors working together to improve WordPress. Jenny Wong, the organizer of the event, regularly attends the WordPress…
InstantWP is a free tool used to quickly and easily create a WordPress testing environment. It ships with everything you need to get a local install of WordPress up and running. Apache, PHP, MySQL, and WordPress 3.6 are prepackaged. You may be wondering why WordPress 3.6 is installed and not the latest version. Seamus Brady,…
Did you know that WordPress has built-in support for subscript and superscript characters? This information is not easy to find, as it’s tucked away under the Editing Help page in the codex. Although the WordPress editor doesn’t show subscript and superscript buttons, you can add these characters anytime using the sub or sup tags. For…
The latest trend in WordPress blogging themes is to put post formats on center stage with a colorful palette selected to highlight the variety of content. Hexa is a beautiful new example of this trend in action. The theme launched last week on WordPress.com and hit WordPress.org over the weekend. Named for the geometric shapes…