Advanced Custom Fields version 5.7.10 is…
Advanced Custom Fields version 5.7.10 is out. This marks the beginning of its 2019 mission to “improve deeply,” starting with the underlying PHP codebase.
Advanced Custom Fields version 5.7.10 is out. This marks the beginning of its 2019 mission to “improve deeply,” starting with the underlying PHP codebase.
If you follow PHP development, you might be interested to know that a JIT (“just in time”) engine is coming to PHP 8. This change will present some challenges, but overall the benefit will be increased performance. ⏱️ There isn’t a lot of information about this right now, but there is a good discussion with…
Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko details an exciting and long-awaited improvement to the Date/Time component in WordPress 5.3, which was made possible by raising the required PHP version for WordPress core to 5.6. ⌛ Andrey explains the Date/Time component previously relied on the “WordPress timestamp,” which caused many bugs and lacked “interoperability with upstream PHP or any…
Brent on PHP explains — His video on how much PHP has changed from 5.6 to 8.2 is good too —
Brent Roose offers some benchmarks that feature the new preloading feature in PHP 7.4. Brent says, “I think it’s safe to say that preloading… will have a positive performance impact, also on real-life projects built upon a full-blown framework.” 🚆
WordPress is 19! • WP 6.0 news and Beta 4 release. • JetPack 10.9 • BuddyPress Rewrites 1.1.0 • Simple Local Avatars 2.3.0 • InMotion funds WCUS scholarships • RSS and Blogging FTW • Wishlist Member acquired • New leadership team at Yoast • and the rest of your weekly WP news roundup!
Iain Poulson has an introduction to WordPress penetration testing. (Pentesting is the practice of simulating an attack on a site or app.) Iain covers some recommended tools like WPScan, Kali, sqlmap, and PHPStan, a PHP static analysis tool.