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News and insights about WordPress and its ecosystem by Post Status staff and contributors for our members and the WordPress community.

Matt Mullenweg did an AMA on…

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Brian Krogsgard
Matt Mullenweg did an AMA on Product Hunt. There's not a ton you haven't seen, but apparently there's a new WordPress mobile app that's still in "internal" beta. I wonder if it's using the new REST API? I hope it's…

WP Updates sold under non-disclosure, experiences outage

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Brian Krogsgard
WP Updates is a SaaS that allows plugin and theme authors to provide automatic updates to their customers. It is a third party distribution system that the author uploads their updated files to and WP Updates sends it to customers.…

WordPress REST API proposed for core inclusion in two stages

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Brian Krogsgard
The much anticipated proposal for core inclusion of the WordPress REST API is here. Ryan McCue -- the project lead -- has proposed a draft for the inclusion process that recommends a two stage approach. He recommends that stage one…

Popping the publisher bubble

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Brian Krogsgard
Ben Thompson does excellent analysis. In his latest post he talks about the big problems facing journalism and publishing online. Here's my favorite part: It is easy to feel sorry for publishers: before the Internet most were swimming in money,…

iThemes Security is integrating Sucuri malware scanning

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Brian Krogsgard
iThemes announced today that both their free iThemes Security and their commercial iThemes Security Pro plugins are integrating Sucuri's malware scanning service. The free one is just an opt-in one off option, which is nice but can also be accomplished…

The WordPress security trilogy, parts 2 and 3

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Brian Krogsgard
I love trilogies, and a WordPress security trilogy was completed today. I'm now in that weird state of having just finished a series I was super into and didn't want to end (well minus the security implications). In early August I…

WordPress to support PHP7 immediately upon release

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress will support PHP7 officially immediately upon its planned November release, says PHP7 testing extraordinaire Aaron Jorbin. As Aaron notes, PHP7 has significant speed improvements on past versions, and it will be great to be able to use it right…

Yoast to expand to Drupal with SEO product

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Brian Krogsgard
It makes sense, given Yoast SEO's recent API changes and adjustment to a real-time Javascript driven SEO analysis, that they can now create a cross platform SEO product. And today they announced that Yoast SEO for Drupal 7 will be available…

Shortcode syntax and API changes drafted and under review

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Brian Krogsgard
It's been a busy few days for shortcodes. Most, if not all, core committers and project leads would tell you that they'd rather burn the shortcodes API than anything else. But it's one of those things that exists and now…
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