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Templatic, a WordPress theme company, was…

Brian Krogsgard

May 2, 2016

Templatic, a WordPress theme company, was recently hacked and that hacker is holding it's customer data for ransom. This is terrifying, for both Templatic clients and for Templatic itself. Thankfully billing information wasn't stored and Templatic's customers at least so…

Encouragement to reward folks who find plugin vulnerabilities

Brian Krogsgard

May 2, 2016

Security

Mika Epstein posted a recommendation on Make WordPress Plugins for authors who make money from plugins to utilize a service like HackerOne to help identify and fix vulnerabilities in their plugins. The WordPress tag on HackerOne -- which is a…

A new “Get WordPress” landing page is in the works

Brian Krogsgard

May 2, 2016

DesignHosting

A couple of months ago, Mark Uraine described the thinking behind what is now likely to be a new landing page at WordPress.org/get: For quite a while now, the meta team has been interested in improving the download and mobile pages…

If you liked those CSI shows…

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2016

Hosting

If you liked those CSI shows but wish it was hacker's code instead they were dissecting instead of corpses, then you'll love this detailed look into a spammer's script that infected a WordPress site on a shared hosting server.

Alex Ivanovs has a detailed post…

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2016

Design

Alex Ivanovs has a detailed post on the Pagely blog on how to make your blog more searchable. Beyond installing your typical SEO plugin, Alex's suggestions touch on how to audit your site, making your design more mobile-friendly, and examining your…

The hosting world is a wild…

Brian Krogsgard

April 27, 2016

Hosting

The hosting world is a wild and scary place, and Kevin Ohashi, of Review Signal, takes you behind the scenes of what it's like being pitched by "slimy" hosts.

Follow-up on Server Pilot

Brian Krogsgard

April 27, 2016

BusinessHosting

I talked to Justin Samuel, the CEO of Server Pilot, on the phone today, to do a bit of follow-up after my last post. I'm still intrigued by Server Pilot, which I see as unique in our space right now,…

WordPress Development Tools — Draft Podcast

Katie Richards

April 23, 2016

DraftPlanet

This week, Joe and Brian discuss the tools they use for web and WordPress development. They go from productivity apps that help them accomplish their work to IDEs to build tools to version control.

It’s nice to see Sucuri is…

April 21, 2016

Hosting

It's nice to see Sucuri is offering SSL certificates to their customers at no charge with LetsEncrypt. With WordPress.com adopting SSL everywhere and ways you can currently installing a LetsEncrypt SSL on hosts like SiteGround, DreamHost, and Bluehost, I'm wondering…

Server Pilot on top of Digital Ocean

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2016

Hosting

This afternoon, I spent a few minutes playing with Server Pilot, after seeing is mentioned in Slack for at least the fifth time. Server Pilot offers a control panel and an API for managing WordPress installs on top of Digital…

WordPress 4.5 — Draft Podcast

Katie Richards

April 16, 2016

DraftPlanet

Joe and Brian talk about the release and features of WordPress 4.5, “Coleman”. They also discuss the earliest stages of WordPress 4.6 -- no rest for the wicked.

You might have heard the story of how someone accidentally…

April 15, 2016

Hosting

You might have heard the story of how someone accidentally deleted his entire hosting customers' websites (1500+ customers). Last night I accidentally ran, on all servers, a Bash script with a rm -rf {foo}/{bar} with those variables undefined due to a bug in the…

Weekend listening: The A16Z podcast talked…

April 15, 2016

Business

Weekend listening: The A16Z podcast talked about open source business models in a short episode the other day. Automattic isn't mentioned, but the conversation around investing in community influencers, winning over developers, and building out a sales team is pretty…

Shared hosting is hard, and EIG owns a lot of shared hosting companies

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2016

Hosting

Chris Lema recently shared his opinion on some hosting companies to avoid. Spoiler: generally he doesn't care for hosting companies owned by EIG. You've probably never even heard of many of the companies in the list -- though you've probably all heard of…

Managing products is about focus

Brian Krogsgard

April 13, 2016

Business

I have to hand it to Jeff Chandler, he's pretty good at raising a ruckus when he's annoyed with a plugin. Yesterday, I guess he reached his boiling point with Edit Flow, the quasi-abandoned plugin by Automattic for managing an…

Understanding reference transactions and PayPal

Brian Krogsgard

April 13, 2016

Business

During my WooConf talk, I discussed a little bit about PayPal, why it's useful as an eCommerce checkout option, and why site owners with subscriptions need Reference Transactions enabled. The common question after that was: what they heck are Reference Transactions?…

Templatic, a WordPress theme company, was…

Encouragement to reward folks who find plugin vulnerabilities

A new “Get WordPress” landing page is in the works

If you liked those CSI shows…

Alex Ivanovs has a detailed post…

The hosting world is a wild…

Follow-up on Server Pilot

WordPress Development Tools — Draft Podcast

It’s nice to see Sucuri is…

Server Pilot on top of Digital Ocean

WordPress 4.5 — Draft Podcast

You might have heard the story of how someone accidentally…

Weekend listening: The A16Z podcast talked…

Shared hosting is hard, and EIG owns a lot of shared hosting companies

Managing products is about focus

Understanding reference transactions and PayPal

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