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The trojan emoji

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2015

Andrew Nacin, lead developer of WordPress, just finished a talk at Loopconf, where he talked about a series of related WordPress security fixes that spanned two years, with the final fix included into WordPress core under the guise of emoji support.

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

Sami Keijonen

May 7, 2015

DesignDevelopment

Accessibility is an important part of modern web development. It is our responsibility as creators of WordPress themes to make them accessible to all users, on any device. In this article, I'll offer some simple tips to create better, more accessible WordPress themes.

WordPress 4.2.2 released to protect against critical security bug in Genericons

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

Security

WordPress 4.2.2 was released this evening in order to protect against a critical security bug in Genericons. From the release post: The Genericons icon font package, which is used in a number of popular themes and plugins, contained an HTML…

One year of Post Promoter Pro

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

Business

We often hear of big fails and big success stories with WordPress plugins and products. It was refreshing to hear Chris Klosowski blog about his experience selling Post Promoter Pro, his commercial buffer-style plugin that has done okay, but certainly…

OptinMonster goes SaaS in effort to cater for more hosting environments and non-WordPress platforms

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

BusinessHosting

OptinMonster has changed the very core of their product today, and it is now a standalone SaaS (software as a service) product, versus a plugin that runs on users' servers.

Audience Ops aims to offer regular editorial content for your business blog

Brian Krogsgard

May 1, 2015

Business

Brian Casel, who is half of the Bootstrapped Web podcast and the founder of Restaurant Engine, has a new project called Audience Ops. Audience Ops is a recurring service business that offers content marketing for online businesses. Brian is a…

Automatically expire passwords for WordPress users

Brian Krogsgard

April 29, 2015

Security

Frankie Jarrett has created yet another handy plugin, this time to auto expire passwords for users of certain roles based on a customizable number of days. This plugin could be handy for organizations that require password resets, or just for…

Sync adds customer maintenance reports to their site management tool

Brian Krogsgard

April 29, 2015

Business

iThemes Sync has a decent amount of competition between ManageWP, Jetpack Manage, and others that offer site management services that allow you to manage and update themes, plugins, and WordPress core. But they've recently come out with a feature that…

Hosting giant Endurance slammed by “independent research” company with suspect motivations

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2015

Hosting

I looked into this story for hours, and have concluded that the doomsday scenario described in the headline on Business Week and the report by Gotham City Researchers are exaggerated at best. Gotham City Research publishes these reports depicting crash…

Advantages of ems and rems over pixels

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2015

Design

I've long preferred a mix of ems rems (and percentages for that matter) over pixels in web design and front-end development. However, some of the original reasons have gone away as browsers have gotten smarter. Yet, Vasilis van Gemert has collected…

WordPress zero day vulnerability on comment text patched in 4.2.1

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2015

HostingSecurity

Many readers have likely heard by now that WordPress 4.2.1 is out (and probably already patched on your installs). The patch is in response to a zero day vulnerability reported by Jouko Pynnönen of Klikki. WordPress 4.2.1 includes a check on…

WordPress 4.2, “Powell”, released

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2015

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 4.2, “Powell”, has been released. The release was lead by Drew Jaynes and includes contributions from 283 community members.

Where style guides fit process

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2015

Design

If you've ever worked on a site that evolves over time or for one that has pre-existing brand guidelines, then you probably know a bit about style guides. Chris Coyier has kindly named some common style guide strategies, and talked…

Postmatic begins rollout of commercial version at $9 per month

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2015

Business

Late last year I wrote about Postmatic, a plugin that aims to improve your WordPress email and commenting experience. The plugin allows for comment management directly from your email, as well as handles post and comment subscriptions for your blog. The…

Theme Review Team to require using the Customizer for all theme options

Devin Price

April 22, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

All theme options must now be included in the Customizer for themes submitted to the WordPress theme repository. Custom theme options pages will not be allowed. The change will have implications for authors, reviewers, and users of WordPress themes.

WordPress showcase: Politico for Europe

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2015

Design

Politico.eu just launched. Politico is a big political news outlet here in the United States, and their push to European politics is a major initiative for them. And they're making the push using WordPress as their CMS. I was surprised…

The trojan emoji

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

WordPress 4.2.2 released to protect against critical security bug in Genericons

One year of Post Promoter Pro

OptinMonster goes SaaS in effort to cater for more hosting environments and non-WordPress platforms

Audience Ops aims to offer regular editorial content for your business blog

Automatically expire passwords for WordPress users

Sync adds customer maintenance reports to their site management tool

Hosting giant Endurance slammed by “independent research” company with suspect motivations

Advantages of ems and rems over pixels

WordPress zero day vulnerability on comment text patched in 4.2.1

WordPress 4.2, “Powell”, released

Where style guides fit process

Postmatic begins rollout of commercial version at $9 per month

Theme Review Team to require using the Customizer for all theme options

WordPress showcase: Politico for Europe

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