ByDan Knauss
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After the recent discovery of REST API vulnerabilities in WordPress 4.7.1 and 4.7 Mika Epstein wrote an impactful post recently entitled “A Case for REST API”. I really like this calm approach to the subject – I highly recommend you take a minute to read her thoughts.
The bottom line: leaving the REST API on and dealing with possible future vulnerabilities is less of a risk then turning it off.
Marco Almeida writes about his experience with one WordPress plugin reviewer and the rejection of one of his plugins. 🤼 He followed up on that post a short time ago: I had a very civil and friendly chat with Mika Epstein over at the Making WordPress Slack channel… I still do not agree with the…
After interviewing thirteen WordPress developers for a book on getting up and running with WordPress development, I have some key takeaways that I’d like to share with you.
Mika Epstein explains why the plugin emails sent to developers (who have plugins in the WordPress.org repo) are anonymous. The bottom line: plugin reviewers were finding themselves targeted in rather terrifying ways, including death threats and credible threats against their safety at upcoming WordCamps. 😲 Mika explains how bad this got for our volunteer reviewers:…
Mika Epstein shows how you can create your own custom oEmbed in WordPress.
Mika Epstein ran into the perennial challenge of Genesis child theme users who customize their theme code. Genesis themes are all child themes for the Genesis Framework, which you shouldn’t modify. Mika’s solution was a grandchild theme plugin to keep her custom code separated from the Genesis parent and child. This has always been my…
Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms of business and product acquisitions, key investments and hires … it says A LOT about…
