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Review Signal has changed the algorithm…

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
Review Signal has changed the algorithm used to rank web hosts. A number of hosts were affected, and I thought you may like to see how. I believe Kevin does a terrific job with this site and it's the only…

The Jorbin Test

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Aaron Jorbin
BusinessCareers
The Joel Test has largely stood the test of time, yet there isn't a WordPress specific version to help WordPress developers judge job opportunities. The Jorbin Test is the Joel Test, updated for the WordPress engineers of today.

Plugin repo and frameworks

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
There's a newly clarified policy on Make Plugins from Mika Epstein where she says that developer frameworks are no longer going to be approved for the plugin repo. Plugins like CMB2, Advanced Custom Fields and others that may be dependencies of other…

Mandrill ditches free plans, stacks onto paid Mailchimp

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Most of you know this by now, as it's been all over the web and a hot topic in Slack, but Mailchimp is ditching free Mandrill plans for transactional emails, and stacking Mandrill onto paid Mailchimp plans. But even if…

Linode has finally followed up after…

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Security
Linode has finally followed up after their security brew-ha-ha that you may remember affected WP Engine not long ago. It doesn't say a ton and follows a pretty standard follow-up / PR script, but it's at least some closure for…

Rainmaker Digital passes $12 million in revenue, 60+ employees

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Rainmaker Digital is the newish name of the formerly known Copyblogger Media. Brian Clark recently did an interview with Andrew Warner of Mixergy, where he discussed the state of the business, where things are going, and what to expect. It was…

Facebook Instant Articles to be available to all publishers in April

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
There is really only one existing WordPress integration for Facebook Instant Articles. It is from Jack Spurlock, a developer at WIRED. Facebook has a limited spec for supporting Instant Articles, which at a base level can just use RSS, but deeper integrations would…

Mason James doesn’t like the term…

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Business
Mason James doesn't like the term "maintenance", which may come as a surprise considering many folks lump his company, Valet (formerly WP Valet) into a group of "maintenance service" agencies. Maintenance is a completely inadequate and backwards approach to running…

WordFence is spreading the word about…

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Security
WordFence is spreading the word about three different plugins with security vulnerabilities they've found exploited in the wild. WooCommerce Store Toolkit (not publicly available, patched, but will need updating) WordPress User Meta Manager (on .org, blind SQL injection vulnerability) WP…

A Canadian court has issued an opinion…

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Design
A Canadian court has issued an opinion with a vomit inducing description of open source. A problem Chenier saw was that 21st Capital used "open source code" and made changes, sometimes on a weekly basis, to its program code without testing…
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