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WordPress security release, and 4.5 development kicks off

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Brian Krogsgard
DesignSecurity
It was the first truly busy day in WordPress core land since the release of WordPress 4.4. Two big things happened: A maintenance and security update was released in WordPress 4.4.1, and the security component affected all versions back that can…

Invest in yourself week

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
This is one of the best weeks of the year for you, and you may not know it. You probably have fewer support requests, clients calling, or otherwise demanding forces taking you away from focusing inward. I encourage each of…

Real feedback

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Ryan Sullivan has a great post about feedback: Since I’ve become a business owner, I’ve tried to go out of my way to leave feedback anywhere I can, and really try and give solid, actionable feedback to the people who specifically…

Envato getting into video app space

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
In a bit of a surprise move, Envato is getting into the video mobile app space. With a clever video app that nicely highlights their VideoHive market, the new Envato Video app allows people to create simple marketing videos, straight…

Quartz is a business oriented news…

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Business
Quartz is a business oriented news website owned by Atlantic Media, and it is also using WordPress on the backend, with a custom REST API to power much of their distribution (to apps, the website, newsletter, etc). Here's an analysis…

WordFence — a security plugin to…

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Security
WordFence -- a security plugin to boot -- has an XSS vulnerability that was recently patched. VaultPress posted more about it, but if you run this plugin, you need to update.

WP Engine requiring mass password reset on all accounts

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
  WP Engine sent emails to all existing (and apparently many former) customers stating that they needed to reset every password associated with their account: While we have no evidence that the information was used inappropriately, as a precaution, we…

Mel Choyce is now one of…

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Design
Mel Choyce is now one of five females with commit access to WordPress, and she shares her experience learning about the privilege on her blog. Another great thing about her and Michael Arestad getting commit? It's a big and needed…

WordPress 4.4, “Clifford”, released

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Brian Krogsgard
Make WordPressPlanet
WordPress 4.4, “Clifford”, has been released. Clifford includes infrastructure for the WordPress REST API, taxonomy and comment improvements, as well as the new Twenty Sixteen default theme, the ability to embed posts anywhere, and much more.

State of the Word, 2015

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Brian Krogsgard
PlanetWordPress News
Matt Mullenweg has just completed the 2015 State of the Word, the annual speech where he highlights the last year of everything WordPress and what we can anticipate in the future.
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