In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I discuss the death of Alex King who was a pillar of the WordPress project. King passed away a few days ago from colon cancer. We share stories of meeting and discussing WordPress topics with King and describe his many contributions to WordPress. King will be dearly missed by the WordPress community.
During the second half of the show, we discuss upcoming changes in WordPress 4.4, the lessons I learned moderating comments on WP Tavern, and WordCampus renaming to WPCampus.
Stories Discussed:
Alex King, Founder of Crowd Favorite Passes Away
Alex King’s Final Request
WP Super Cache 1.4.5 Patches XSS Vulnerability
Lessons I Learned Moderating Comments in WordPress
WordCampus Renames Event to WPCampus
WordPress 4.4 to Possibly Rearrange Fields to the Comment Form
WordPress 4.4 Removes the View Post and Get Shortlink Buttons From the Post Editor
Plugins Picked By Marcus:
Contact Form 7 Customizer allows you to alter items like spacing and button size of the contact form using the customizer.
View Admin As lets you simulate what a site looks like from a user with a specific role or capability.
Grayscale Images converts images to gray-scale and displays the colored image hovered over.
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Hey Jeff,
Glad to hear you’ll be doing a show on comment moderation next week. We’ve got a few other ideas for Crowd Control that would be fun to bounce back and forth with you. Be in touch.
Jason