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Robert Rowley has been monitoring insecure…

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
Robert Rowley has been monitoring insecure WordPress plugins which exposed PHP objects to potential injection on Pagely servers -- and shares how they addressed the issue. There are several interesting takeaways, but I especially liked his note about communicating with…

Hendrik Buchwald has done a fascinating…

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
Hendrik Buchwald has done a fascinating breakdown of security vulnerabilities in plugins, with analysis of detected vulnerabilities by type and by how many lines of code are in the plugin. Surprisingly, their software didn't pick up vulnerabilities in the "vast…

Yesterday, I analyzed ThemeForest and Envato’s…

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
Yesterday, I analyzed ThemeForest and Envato's new Hosted program for getting hosting alongside your theme. Vova Feldman has a really interesting blog post that's a good companion to what I wrote, which dives into the financial opportunities that still exist…

We have yet another big hosting…

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
We have yet another big hosting acquisition:  United Internet -- owner of 1 & 1 and more -- has acquired Strato for €600 million. Strato did about €125 million in revenue last year. The current rate of consolidation is pretty…

Stripe Atlas is a program for…

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Stripe Atlas is a program for easily creating a business. It came out a while ago, and I know at least a couple Post Status members have used this already. It can be especially helpful if you're trying to create…

Easy Digital Downloads has raised prices,…

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Easy Digital Downloads has raised prices, pretty much across the board, for extensions. For most extensions, they've increased prices between 30% and 50%, though a few were more than that. It'll be really interesting to see how the changes affect…

Envato Hosted expands with revenue share for authors

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
Envato has expanded the hosting program they began piloting last December, which I covered at the time. Now it's expanded from two theme shops to twelve, including several of the most popular authors on the platform. Envato Hosted is now…

Seriously Simple Podcasting sold

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Hugh Lashbrooke has sold Seriously Simple Podcasting to Craig Hewitt of Podcast Motor. This is not because I no longer believe in the product or the mission to democratise podcasting – far from it – I am in fact selling…

Automattic, Calypso, and the WordPress project

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
I think bringing Automattic resources into core WordPress development to put a huge effort into improving the WordPress editing experience is a good thing. An email went out last week to the authors of all plugins with more than one million active…

Mel Choyce, a WordPress core committer…

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
Mel Choyce, a WordPress core committer and the designer of Twenty Seventeen, shares thoughts on how good design feedback should be structured. My favorite is probably the last one on the list: Frame feedback as suggestions, not mandates. “What if…

The ROI of WordCamp sponsorship

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Tony Perez guest posted on WP Tavern about the ROI of WordCamp sponsorships. He provides great insight into the thinking behind sponsoring events, which is highly valuable for WordCamp organizers, business owners, and the broader WordPress community as well. Even as event…

“Don’t Use Carousels” is a mantra…

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Dan Knauss
DesignNotes
"Don't Use Carousels" is a mantra that's been going around the design community for years, but i found Chris Coyier's article at MediaTemple's blog to take a sensible approach in explaining why that absolute is a bit overboard. If you…

I’m always amazed what can be…

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Dan Knauss
Notes
I'm always amazed what can be done with CSS and when I think i've seen everything, I see something that I think is cool. This time it's this one that shows filtering content using only CSS. There are drawbacks, but…

Matt Cromwell shows us how to…

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Dan Knauss
Notes
Matt Cromwell shows us how to enqueue scripts only when a widget or shortcode is present. Useful if you don't want something like a stylesheet to be enqueued EVERYWHERE regardless of whether it's being used on the page or not.

Denis Sinegubko from Sucuri demonstrates what…

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Dan Knauss
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Denis Sinegubko from Sucuri demonstrates what lessons we can learn from WordPress WP-Login malware in a recent post. If your site is ever hacked, always remember that hackers can take over existing legit admin accounts - so Denis recommends not…
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