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If you liked those CSI shows…

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2016

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?…

WordPress 4.5, “Coleman”, released

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2016

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 4.5, "Coleman", has just been released. The release includes new inline editing features, custom logo support, customizer enhancements, and some under the hood changes that you'll like.

A Day of REST is going to Boston

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2016

HostingPlanet

The second A Day of REST conference will be in Boston, Massachusetts. The event will cover the WordPress REST API in-depth, with talks and workshops from leaders in the community. It will be co-organized by Human Made and Post Status.

Managed WordPress hosting provider FlyWheel has…

April 8, 2016

Hosting

Managed WordPress hosting provider FlyWheel has raised a $4 million Series A round. They last raised $1.2 million over a year ago. The TechCrunch article states that FlyWheel has about 40,000 paying customers.