Four months ago, Richard Best, a lawyer who maintains a blog focused on legal matters related to WordPress and open source, published a poll asking for people’s views on the reselling of commercial themes and plugins. Best is working on a 10-chapter ebook called “A Practical Guide to WordPress and the GPL.” He created the…
Among the many changes in WordPress 4.4 in an effort to clean the interface, the Get Shortlink button is hidden from view. If you want to restore the button, check out the Shorter Links plugin developed by Rob Allen. In addition to restoring the Get Shortlink button, it gives users the ability to use custom…
Politics is a new free theme on WordPress.org designed to support politicians, campaigns, causes, and government agencies. The theme was created by Jami Gibbs, author of the Gateway theme and founder of Rescue Themes. After just three days on WordPress.org, it is already active on more than 700 sites. Politics features a homepage template with…
Earlier this week Dries Buytaert, creator and project lead for Drupal, opened up a discussion on his blog about the future of Drupal architecture in a post titled Should we decouple Drupal with a client-side framework? Buytaert contends that users have come to expect application-like experiences from websites, given their experiences interacting with the Facebook…
If you notice images don’t load after upgrading to WordPress 4.4 and you use SSL on the frontend, you’re not alone. In a thread on the WordPress.org support forum, Brokkr explains the crux of the problem: I recently switched my WordPress site to https after getting certificates from Let’s Encrypt. Using 4.3.1 all content was…
It’s that time of year where generosity goes a long way, especially to those who need it most. Edward Caissie, also known as @JellyBeen, is in need of the WordPress community’s generosity. His wife, Terri Caissie, was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Encephalopathy (Autoimmune) with Progressive Cerebella Ataxia on January 22, 2015. Her immune system is attacking…
Since Matt Mullenweg gave the WordPress community a homework assignment to “Learn JavaScript, deeply,” links to tutorials and training courses have been flying around. Once you have grasped some of the basics, one of the best ways to learn is to start building a small project. If you’re looking to explore adding JavaScript to WordPress…
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I are joined by Michele Butcher, Nikhil Vimil, Kiko Doran, and Chris Wiegman as we recap the first annual WordCamp US. We discuss the venue and share our favorite sessions of the event. We also discuss a number of items from Matt Mullenweg’s State of The…
WP Engine customers received an urgent notification in their inboxes Wednesday evening regarding a security breach. At WP Engine we are committed to providing robust security. We are writing today to let you know that we learned of an exposure involving some of our customers’ credentials. Out of an abundance of caution, we are proactively…
Despite WordCamp US 2015 ending less than a week ago, general admission tickets are on sale for WordCamp US 2016. The event is scheduled for December 2nd-4th in Philadelphia, PA at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Tickets are $40 each and grant attendees access to both days of the event, swag, and lunch. Alx Block, one of the…
All of the sessions from WordCamp US 2015 are slowly making their way to WordPress.tv. If you weren’t able to attend the event, the good news is that you don’t have to miss out on any of the WordPress education. The sessions are packed full of knowledge and inspiration from some of the brightest minds…
Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, has released a Windows version of its desktop application. The app is free and works well on my Windows 7 64Bit machine. It looks and performs exactly the same as its Mac counterpart. This is to be expected as the interface is driven by JavaScript that communicates with the WordPress.com REST API.…
WordCamp Europe 2016 organizers made 500 more tickets available this week after the first 1,000 sold out within three weeks of opening ticket sales. According to organizer Petya Raykovska, they are expecting 1700 attendees this year in Vienna, Austria. “We opened ticket sales more than seven months before the event and it’s going a lot…
After four months of intense development led by Scott Taylor, WordPress 4.4 “Clifford” named after jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, is available for download. This release features responsive images, WordPress embeds, the Twenty Sixteen default theme, the first half of the REST API, and a host of small improvements. Responsive Images When users upload images to…
Treehouse will be discontinuing its WordPress education courses. According to Zac Gordon, one of the site’s former educators, no new WordPress, BuddyPress, or WooCommerce courses will be created and existing content will not be updated in the future. “The online learning company where I have been teaching WordPress for the last 3+ years told me…