WordPress News

WeFoster is targeting community-centric WordPress sites with new hosting platform

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2017

WeFoster is launching a complete hosting platform to target community-centric WordPress sites of all shapes and sizes. I spoke with Bowe Frankema and Marion Gooding about the project last week, to get a sense of their aims, and to see…

Running a successful regional agency, with Ben May

Katie Richards

February 25, 2017

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Brian interviews Ben May -- owner of The Code Company -- about growing and running a successful development agency in Australia.

Last chance: Come to A Day of REST to learn about the next generation of WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 21, 2017

DesignDevelopment

Don't miss your opportunity to visit Boston for the second iteration of A Day of REST, a conference exclusively devoted to teaching you about the WordPress REST API.

And let me leave you with…

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2017

Business

And let me leave you with one more weekend read: Business Insider goes in-depth on why Medium's business model isn't lining up with their funding model. And it might cost them the company. I hope they crawl out of it;…

Rapid, automatic upgrades are pivotal to the future of WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2017

Security

Mika Epstein has a way of being super logical and level-headed about everything. She has written a post in defense of the WordPress REST API -- that really is applicable to security in WordPress in general -- that I wish…

LoopConf in review

Brian Krogsgard

February 15, 2017

BusinessPlanet

LoopConf 2, hosted in Salt Lake City, was a great WordPress developer-focused event. Post Status was there, taking pictures and video. Here's our review.

Jason Cohen, founder of WP Engine, on growing your company well — Draft Podcast

Brian Krogsgard

February 10, 2017

DraftPlanet

I talk to Jason Cohen, the founder of WP Engine, about his entrepreneurial journey, and how to grow a company in a healthy way.

Mika Epstein notifies developers of a…

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2017

Security

Mika Epstein notifies developers of a recent plugin guideline change in the WordPress plugin repo. Guideline 12 (“Public facing pages on WordPress.org may not spam”) is now more clear in broadcasting the message “Do not use your readme to spam.”…

BlogVault vulnerability exposed tens of thousands of sites to hacking

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2017

Security

BlogVault has 20,000 active installs of their free plugin on WordPress.org, and on their home page they boast 85,000+ sites in their network. Over the weekend, they disclosed a vulnerability in their plugin that exposed customers, and an unknown percentage…

WordPress.com digital only ad campaign sign of things to come

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2017

Business

Automattic created a digital only advertisement geared toward the Super Bowl. When it was discovered, some folks thought it may air nationally, either during or around the game. I confirmed with Mark Armstrong of Automattic that it's actually a digital…

Editing and customization core focus areas — Draft Podcast

Katie Richards

February 2, 2017

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Joe and Brian talk about both the editor and customizer feature projects -- two core focus areas for WordPress in 2017.

StudioPress relaunched, going all in on a hosted product

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2017

Hosting

StudioPress has a brand new look, and is now marketing itself primarily as StudioPress Sites. At a foundational level, StudioPress Sites feels like a mashup of other products under the parent company umbrella, backed by the powerful StudioPress brand. In…

WooCommerce switches accounts to utilize WordPress.com credentials

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2017

Security

WooCommerce has officially switched over to require WordPress.com account credentials. The announcement was made by Todd Wilkens, the new lead of WooCommerce within Automattic. Todd was formerly the head of mobile and chat products at Atlassian (HipChat, etc). This change…

We have more big hosting news,…

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2017

Hosting

We have more big hosting news, again from Liquid Web. They've acquired WiredTree, the much beloved VPS service. According to Liquid Web's announcement, WiredTree customers will be migrated to their infrastructure. The post also says Liquid Web has 600 team…

I sent out the first post…

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2017

Design

I sent out the first post and newsletter for my new Commerce Notebook project. If you didn't subscribe, I figured I'd share the Footnotes from that newsletter here, this time. If you are into eCommerce, I hope you'll check out…

WordPress 4.7.2 shipped today with security…

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2017

Security

WordPress 4.7.2 shipped today with security updates. All three updates require existing administrative access, so don't seem to have a super high risk profile compared to publicly exposed areas. You should've already gotten automatic update notices for your websites --…