Cloud hosting provider Linode has been combatting DDoS attacks since Christmas Day, which have caused multiple disruptions and service outages across its global data centers. The attacks are ongoing and the company is struggling to keep its status blog up to notify customers. In addition to the DDoS attacks, Linode has also confirmed a data…
In 2014, we wrote about the trend of more people receiving commit access to WordPress core. Fast forward to the beginning of 2016 and a total of 35 people can commit code to the core of WordPress. Helen Hou-Sandí, WordPress Lead Developer, published the stat on Twitter and notes that 22 out of the 35…
WordCamp Miami 2016 organizers are ramping up for their 8th event to be held February 19-21 at the Florida International University School of Business. Ptah Dunbar is stepping up as the lead organizer for the event, which is expected to draw more than 700 attendees. BuddyCamp Miami will kick off the event on the 19th,…
On December 9th, 2015, WP Engine sent out an urgent notice to its customers regarding a security breach wherein customer credentials were exposed. This incident prompted an investigation, which is now complete. According to the most recent and final update, investigators determined that the security exposure came through one of the host’s cloud infrastructure providers.…
Peter Suhm, creator of WP Pusher, just released a new free video course for WordPress developers. After the success of his email-based WP Git Crash Course, Suhm jumped head-first into creating more educational material in video format. Git4wp.com launched this week with more than 1.5 hours of recorded lessons, split up into 35 videos. The…
Budding Windows App Studio developers who want an easy way to create a Windows application of their WordPress sites are in luck. In the December update, the Windows App Team announced a couple of new features including, a WordPress data source and template. Windows App Studio is a template-driven, drag-and-drop software development tool that enables…
Automattic announced today that its WordAds advertising network is now available to self-hosted WordPress sites via Jetpack and the new AdControl plugin. WordAds, which bears a name confusingly similar to Google’s AdWords, delivers all the advertising seen on WordPress.com’s free sites. (Ad display on VIP or upgraded sites is opt-in.) Self-hosted WordPress site owners who…
Frontend developers working with Flexbox no longer have to sacrifice support for older versions of IE. The folks at 10up have open sourced Flexibility, a polyfill that uses JavaScript to allow Flexbox to work with IE versions 8 and 9. “Unfortunately, Flexbox support wasn’t added to Internet Explorer until version 10, leaving older versions –…
Earlier this week we interviewed Muhammad Kashif about the phenomenal growth of the WordPress community in Pakistan. Kashif organizes the local Lahore meetup, which started with a few dozen attendees three months ago and grew to more than 500 this past weekend. His team has been working hard to bring WordCamp to Pakistan, and today…
Earlier this year Steven Gliebe, founder of Churchthemes.com, launched Pro Plugin Directory, a site that lists commercial WordPress plugins for a variety of categories including, forms, performance, and security. After accumulating more than 170 plugins in five months, Gliebe decided to sell the site in November citing a lack of time to devote to the project.…
Over the weekend, the WordPress community in Lahore, Pakistan held its third monthly meetup. The first meetup had just a few dozen attendees, the second approximately 300, and this weekend they had more than 500 WordPress professionals and enthusiasts. Attendee Noumaan Yaqoob traveled from Karachi to the event and shared his experience in a post…
Earlier this year, Hookr.io entered beta with a new UI and support for 800+ plugins and themes. The site provides a WordPress hook/API reference for developers, but creator Christopher Sanford has a vision to do much more with it in 2016. Today Sanford announced the release of the new official Hookr plugin, which is available…
Today Automattic announced that the WordPress.com desktop app is now open source and available on GitHub under the GPLv2 (or later). A Linux version joins the OS X and Windows apps that were released at the end of November and early December, making desktop publishing accessible to users on all major operating systems. The apps…
If you’re looking for a real-world example of the WordPress REST API with code that you can dig into, the new ustwo.com website is open source on GitHub. ustwo is a digital product agency most well known for their work on the award-winning Monument Valley app. They partnered with Human Made, a WordPress development agency,…
The first conference dedicated to the WordPress REST API is on its way to selling out. A Day of REST will be held January 28, 2016, at Conway Hall in London. The venue has a capacity of 250 people and Petya Raykovska, one of the organizers from Human Made, reports that more than half the…