WordPress News

Matt Mullenweg did an AMA on…

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

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

Brian Krogsgard

September 21, 2015

Business

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

Brian Krogsgard

September 21, 2015

Security

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…

Local WordPress development strategies and transparency in business — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

September 19, 2015

BusinessDraft

Post Status Draft is a podcast about WordPress news and events hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. This week we discuss strategies for working locally, Underscore.js templating, and transparency in WordPress businesses.

Popping the publisher bubble

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2015

Business

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,…

Consequences of bumping PHP minimums, from a Joomla lead that’s been there

Brian Krogsgard

September 15, 2015

Security

There's a mega Trac ticket to, "strategize the updating of minimum PHP version." Joe and I talked about this on the latest podcast too (in the last segment), if you're curious. The Trac ticket goes every which way, as you'd expect.…

iThemes Security is integrating Sucuri malware scanning

Brian Krogsgard

September 15, 2015

Security

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

Brian Krogsgard

September 15, 2015

Security

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…

Gravity Flow makes custom form administrative workflows simple

Brian Krogsgard

September 15, 2015

BusinessDesign

"RE: RE: RE: RE: Needs input." Gravity Flow helps organizations get rid of this nonsense, by extending Gravity Forms to make custom form-based workflows for administrative approval and user input processes.

Justifying conferences, improving WordPress comments, and WordPress’s PHP version support — Draft podcast

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2015

DraftPlanet

This week on the Draft podcast, Joe and Brian discuss justification for attending WordPress events, WordPress comments, and WordPress PHP version support, PHP7, and HHVM.

WordPress to support PHP7 immediately upon release

Brian Krogsgard

September 10, 2015

Hosting

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…

Freelancers and the self-employed are ignored by the government

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2015

BusinessSecurity

Sara Horowitz -- who is the founder and executive director of the Freelancers Union -- makes a compelling argument for how important freelancers are to the American economy. She highlights just how big the freelancer economy is: For better or…

Yoast to expand to Drupal with SEO product

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2015

Business

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

Brian Krogsgard

September 6, 2015

Security

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…

Using React with WordPress — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

September 5, 2015

DraftPlanet

Post Status Draft is a podcast about WordPress news and events hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. This week we discuss plugin and theme language packs, Trac gardening, and using React for WordPress.

A Day of REST — a conference devoted to the WordPress REST API

Brian Krogsgard

September 2, 2015

DesignPlanet

A Day of REST is an event devoted to the WordPress REST API. It'll happen on January 28th 2016, with a follow-on hack day on the 29th, in London. It's an exciting opportunity for developers to learn how to interact with the new WordPress REST API, and Post Status will be an official partner.