WordPress

  • Interview With Siobhan McKeown On The Future Of The WordPress Codex

    Interview With Siobhan McKeown On The Future Of The WordPress Codex

    If you use WordPress, chances are that you’ve run into the WordPress Codex. The Codex is a community maintained collection of documentation, hooks, filters, best practices, and other information related to WordPress. With various handbook projects underway, I’ve been wondering what the future of the Codex is. To find out, I got in touch with…

  • How Crowd Favorite Utilizes Multiple Offices and a Distributed Work Force

    How Crowd Favorite Utilizes Multiple Offices and a Distributed Work Force

    As I was listening to an interview with Chris Lema, I was surprised to hear how Crowd Favorite has offices setup across the world. Many of the WordPress agencies I’m familiar with are 100% distributed with one physical office. This is the first time I’ve heard of a WordPress development agency with multiple offices throughout…

  • WordPress 3.9.2 Fixes Security Vulnerabilities, Users Strongly Encouraged To Update

    WordPress 3.9.2 Fixes Security Vulnerabilities, Users Strongly Encouraged To Update

    WordPress users are strongly encouraged to update their sites to 3.9.2 as it’s a security focused release. According to the announcement, 3.9.2 fixes a possible denial of service issue in PHP’s XML processing. The bug was first reported by Nir Goldshlager of the Salesforce.com Product Security Team and was fixed by Michael Adams and Andrew…

  • Resources for Working with the WordPress REST API

    Resources for Working with the WordPress REST API

    The WordPress REST API is currently slated for inclusion in WordPress 4.1 and the API team is busy working towards that goal. Project contributors Ryan McCue and Rachel Baker have been on the road giving presentations to introduce developers to the API. They presented at WordCamp Milwaukee and WordCamp NYC, demonstrating how developers can use…

  • 7 Aspects Of WordPress I Take For Granted

    7 Aspects Of WordPress I Take For Granted

    After using WordPress for seven years in a row, it’s hard to consider switching to another publishing platform. I have my gripes about WordPress and there are plenty of things that can improve the publishing process. However, after testing a few other open source alternatives, I was reminded of how many things I take for…

  • What WPLift Learned From Not Moderating Comments

    What WPLift Learned From Not Moderating Comments

    Oli Dale of WPLift, decided to leave comments open while having Akismet be the only anti-spam measure used. The result is 8,000 comments, most of which are spammy in nature. He sifted through 8,000 comments and published the results where he outlines the various techniques spammers are using to try to get past the filters.…

  • Tom McFarlin On The Differences Between A WordPress Developer and Implementor

    Tom McFarlin On The Differences Between A WordPress Developer and Implementor

    In a post recently published by Tom McFarlin, I learned about a new segment of WordPress developers called implementors. Implementors are generally described as those who look for and use existing solutions to solve problems. Developers on the other hand, approach problems from a different mindset. In a comment left on the post, Julien Maury…

  • VaultPress Begins Offering 5 Day Free Trials Through Jetpack

    VaultPress Begins Offering 5 Day Free Trials Through Jetpack

    VaultPress, the WordPress security monitoring and backup service has created a way for new users to try the service for free. Beginning with VaultPress 1.6.2, you can try VaultPress Lite for five days through a seamless connection with Jetpack. The idea is to make it as easy as possible to get started using the service.…

  • Exploring The Idea Of An Internet Archive Specifically For WordPress Content

    Exploring The Idea Of An Internet Archive Specifically For WordPress Content

    It seems like each time a WordPress podcast disappears, there is one or more to take its place. A few weeks ago, the WP Bacon podcast announced the end of their show to concentrate on other projects. However, a recent search in iTunes for WordPress Podcasts show there is almost an endless amount of content…

  • WP Quick Install Script Offers a Fast Way to Install WordPress, Plugins, and Themes

    WP Quick Install Script Offers a Fast Way to Install WordPress, Plugins, and Themes

    WP Quick Install is an interesting new tool from Julio Potier, Jonathan Buttigieg, and Jean-Baptiste Marchand-Arvier, the folks behind WP Rocket. As part of supporting their commercial caching plugin, the WP Rocket team works extensively with clients. WP Quick Install is a tool they use internally and decided to share with the community. Its creators…

  • A Proposed Enhancement That Saves A Mouse Click When Upgrading WordPress Plugins

    A Proposed Enhancement That Saves A Mouse Click When Upgrading WordPress Plugins

    Four months ago, WordPress user Fredelig created a new ticket on WordPress trac suggesting the plugin update notification bubble load the page listing all of the plugins with pending upgrades. In WordPress 3.9, clicking the notification loads Plugins.php which lists all of the activated plugins, including the ones with upgrades. This requires a second mouse…

  • Blue Steel: A Free WordPress Theme Based on Roots

    Blue Steel: A Free WordPress Theme Based on Roots

    Roots is a WordPress starter theme that makes use of HTML5 Boilerplate, Bootstrap, and Grunt. Over the years Roots has garnered somewhat of a cult following and is still going strong with the release of version 7.0.0 last week. This release moves some of the theme’s trademark features into a plugin called Soil and adds…

  • Preview WordPress 4.0 Features, Beta 1 Now Available for Testing

    Preview WordPress 4.0 Features, Beta 1 Now Available for Testing

    WordPress 4.0 Beta 1 is now available for download and testing. This means that core developers are now onto the stage of bug fixes and inline documentation in preparation for the official release in August. Helen Hou-Sandí, the release lead, announced the beta with an outline of user-facing features that need testing. The list offers…

  • First Look At The New Plugin Details Screen Coming To WordPress 4.0

    First Look At The New Plugin Details Screen Coming To WordPress 4.0

    In the past two weeks, a lot of work has been done to improve the various plugin installer modals in the backend of WordPress. A modal is a fancy way of saying a dialog or popup box. One of the modals revamped is the plugin details view. When users click on the details link when…

  • In The Next Few Years, 90% Of WordPress Development Could Be JavaScript Based

    In The Next Few Years, 90% Of WordPress Development Could Be JavaScript Based

    In March of 2013, Matt Mullenweg stopped by the Memeburn office to talk about how WordPress went from being just another blogging platform to becoming the CMS of choice for the majority of the web. The author of the article infers that Mullenweg thinks 90% of WordPress development will be JavaScript based in the next…