WordPress News

Plugin repo and frameworks

Brian Krogsgard

March 1, 2016

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

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2016

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…

February 24, 2016

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

Brian Krogsgard

February 24, 2016

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…

All things HTTP/2 and HTTPS — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

February 20, 2016

DraftPlanet

Joe and Brian talk about HTTPS and HTTP/2, including what they are, what it means, and how they affect WordPress.

Facebook Instant Articles to be available to all publishers in April

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2016

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…

WordPress in the Enterprise — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

February 13, 2016

DraftPlanet

Today, Joe and Brian discuss WordPress in the enterprise, the role WordPress currently plays in big company technology stacks, and what opportunities exist.

Mason James doesn’t like the term…

February 12, 2016

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…

February 12, 2016

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 few (surprisingly good) things I have recently learned about PayPal

Brian Krogsgard

February 11, 2016

Business

PayPal is one of those companies people love to hate. I know I do. But sometimes, PayPal shows how good it can be. And in some ways -- please don't hate me for saying this -- PayPal has some WordPress-y-ness…

A Canadian court has issued an opinion…

February 9, 2016

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…

Complete coverage should not be a requirement for core inclusion of WordPress REST API endpoints

Brian Krogsgard

February 9, 2016

BusinessDesign

The WordPress REST API is at a bit of a crossroads. There is a proposal on the table by the core team of four contributors — Ryan McCue, Rachel Baker, Daniel Bachhuber, and Joe Hoyle — to ship endpoints to WordPress core iteratively. There is a pushback on this proposal by WordPress Project Lead and co-founder Matt Mullenweg.

WordPress REST API Round-table — Draft Podcast

Katie Richards

February 5, 2016

DraftPlanet

Today, Joe and Brian are joined by several experts of the WordPress REST API for a community round-table podcast. This podcast was recorded in London at A Day of REST, a conference that was devoted to the REST API.

WordPress 4.4.2 is out with a…

February 4, 2016

Security

WordPress 4.4.2 is out with a security and maintenance release. It should be a no-brainer update for everyone (and is probably updated on most of your sites by now, automatically). It affects all versions of WordPress and updates are out…

WordPress at Scale

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2016

Hosting

The team at Pantheon has made a nice resource that doubles as smart marketing for a developer focused hosting product. WordPress at Scale is a website that aims to educate and provide resources to developers wishing to, well, scale WordPress.…

Themezilla acquired by Pixel Union

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2016

BusinessDesign

Pixel Union was originally a theme marketplace for Tumblr, that expanded to BigCommerce, Shopify, and WordPress. The founder of Pixel Union is Andrew Wilkinson, who also started Meta Lab and publishes Designer News. Meta Lab is well known for being the…