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WordPress.com is testing custom plugins and themes for Business plans

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2017

Automattic is testing the ability for Business plan customers to upload custom plugins and themes on WordPress.com. The test has only been open a few days, and they are enabling the feature for around 10 sites per day, so it's…

Meet me for Publish, in Atlanta, in early August 🔥

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2017

Business

I've paid the deposit for our venue for Publish in Atlanta, August 3rd and 4th. If you liked the first first Publish, I think you'll love this one. It's standalone, in a great venue, in an accessible city, and I'm…

John Maeda posted his slides (along…

Brian Krogsgard

March 15, 2017

BusinessDesign

John Maeda posted his slides (along link to video) of his 2017 Design in Tech Report at SXSW together with Jackie Xu. Some "key observations" include: - Design isn’t just about beauty; it’s about market relevance and meaningful results. -…

Parrot is an integrated site builder…

Brian Krogsgard

March 15, 2017

Design

Parrot is an integrated site builder and editor concept for WordPress, and Davide Casali talks about it here. This concept started as the team thought of new approaches to how a future WordPress customization experience could have worked. I like…

Here’s an insightful interview with John…

Brian Krogsgard

March 15, 2017

Business

Here's an insightful interview with John O'Nolan on Indie Hackers about raising money and growing Ghost to $750k a year. Even if you don't use Ghost, it's a nice peak into how you can approach a business that is born…

Lilyana Yakimova shares that SiteGround’s site…

Brian Krogsgard

March 15, 2017

Security

Lilyana Yakimova shares that SiteGround's site security scanner is now powered by Sucuri. I've long gotten SiteGround's "all clear" emails from HackAlert, but I trust Sucuri far more, so I'm happy to see the change.

If you’re a BuddyPress user, make…

Brian Krogsgard

March 15, 2017

Security

If you're a BuddyPress user, make sure you upgrade to the latest security release, which fixes a few cross-site request forgery (CSRF) issues. You might also want to check out the updated version of the WooCommerce BuddyPress Integration plugin from…

Aaron Campbell talks about the difficulties…

Brian Krogsgard

March 15, 2017

Security

Aaron Campbell talks about the difficulties of security disclosures, starting with the accurate statement, "security is ever a game of balance." Disclosure is an incredibly important part of the process. As Aaron points out, "you’ll look worse if someone else…

JavaScript frameworks in a WordPress context — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

March 12, 2017

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Brian and Joe are joined by Zac Gordon, and the three of them discuss the state of JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks in a WordPress context.

Making a living without client work, with Carrie Dils — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

March 6, 2017

BusinessDraft

In this episode, Brian interviews Carrie Dils -- a self-employed entrepreneur -- about using multiple channels to make a full time living, and giving up client work.

K. Adam White is the design…

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2017

Design

K. Adam White is the design lead on the WordPress REST API, and has been involved with the project for the last three years. On the Bocoup blog, he gives an in-depth overview of his time with the project that…

Automattic has built an importer for…

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2017

Business

Automattic has built an importer for folks to move from Medium to WordPress.com, and gave a tiny jab to Medium while at it: With the recent news about Medium’s change in business model we’ve been receiving a number of requests…

I stumbled on the “Tozny API”…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Security

I stumbled on the "Tozny API" recently which instead of passwords presents a functionality similar to "email me an access code" from Slack. The purpose of which is to help either verify email addresses or promote password-free authentication for your…

BuddyPress 2.8.0 (“San Matteo”) has recently…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Security

BuddyPress 2.8.0 ("San Matteo") has recently been completed and it includes some nice security tweaks and improvements: more helpful “Activate Pending Accounts” screen, better compatibility with the Twenty Seventeen theme, more hooks for Messages, accessibility upgrades, and more. Looks like…

2016 was a good year for…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Security

2016 was a good year for PHP according to Zend as they share survey results from 1200 developers. Some interesting results, most notably that over 50% of respondents are planning to move to PHP 7.x within one year (that's good).…

The theme directory disconnect

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2017

BusinessDesign

In many ways, the WordPress theme directory is an invaluable resource -- for theme developers to have access to put their work out there in the wild for a huge audience, and for users to have a relatively safe way…