August 2022 • Post Status

WOOF for WooCommerce

WOOF is a new directory for WooCommerce extensions and WordPress plugins with a Woo tie-in.

WordPress 6.0.2 Security and Maintenance Release: WordPress.org’s Bug Bounty Program at Work

Ram Dall over at Wordfence has a good breakdown of three vulnerabilities patched in the WordPress 6.0.2 Security and Maintenance Release.

Core Web Vitals in The Real World and The WordPress Ecosystem

NitroPack is hosting a free webinar on Wednesday, September 14th at 5pm EET / … Read more

WordPress 6.0.2, Advanced Admin Handbook, Accessibility Tags for Block Themes, and Improving the Template Creation Experience

New pricing model at Business Bloomer aims at Purchasing Power Parity

Rodolfo Melogli has changed the pricing structure at bto be more affordable to people … Read more

Why I (still) love…

What do you (still) love in tech that’s old? (Tell us in the comments.)

jQuery in the UK

Getting rid of jQuery on gov.uk Andy Sellick, Senior frontend developer, GOV.UK: The main … Read more

Atarim and MainWP Partner Up

Vito Peleg and Dennis Dornon have teamed up to bring MainWP’s site management tool … Read more

LearnDash: Plugin or SaaS?

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a WordPress plugin priced and marketed this well as both product and service.

Naming is Hard: Social and Schema Images

This was a neat post from Joost de Valk back in July where he … Read more

Member Spotlight: Jonathan Bossenger

As a WordPress Code Instructor Jonathan Bossenger gets to work with the Training team and the WordPress community in creating technical educational content for Learn WordPress.

WP.org outage notice gets written into plugin user’s salt keys

On August 8, wordpress.org was down for a few hours after a Chicago data center outage. During the outage, a user of a password security plugin reported it replaced salt keys with an outage notice, leading to a WSOD on a customer’s site.

Two Tools: Better Presentations from iA and Super Fast Collaborative Code Editing with Zed

iA is developing a Markdown-based, radically simplified presentation app (called Presenter) that helps you tell stories effectively. Zed is the spiritual successor to Atom — and focused on fast, collaborative editing. You can get it at GitHub.