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How to decide what should be a paid add-on

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2015

James Laws writes about what to consider when determining whether a new plugin feature should be a paid add-on or not. At NinjaForms, they balance a number of criteria, but in the end he says it comes to a gut…

WordPress security release for all versions

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2015

Security

All past versions of WordPress "are affected by a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability, which could enable anonymous users to compromise a site," according to the release post by Gary Pendergast. WordPress 4.1.2, 4.2 RC3, and new tag releases on past versions…

What we learned today

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2015

Security

In my blog post about today's coordinated plugin update, I discussed the logistics of many of the top WordPress plugins working together to put out an update to fix the misuse of add_query_arg() and remove_query_arg(). Throughout the day, I've tracked other…

Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

April 20, 2015

PlanetSecurity

A coordinated plugin update occurred this morning between many popular WordPress plugins to address a common security vulnerability that allows for XSS cross-site scripting attacks.

WordPress News with Daniel Espinoza

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2015

DraftPlanet

Daniel Espinoza and I cover the week in WordPress news with a short format (~15 minute) podcast. This week we talk about Automattic versus WordPress, the 4.2 release candidate, clever REST API uses, taxes, and hosted website solutions' marketing.

Inside Jetpack

Brian Krogsgard

April 13, 2015

Hosting

Sarah Gooding has an interesting long form piece that goes inside Jetpack's multiple team setup at Automattic, and how they think about development and the structure of the plugin. I found the bit about installs... odd. Automattic is aware of…

Hosting tips for developers

Brian Krogsgard

April 13, 2015

Hosting

Mark Jaquith shares some hosting tips for developers using Pantheon's service. I wish I'd seen this before I used Pantheon for the first time. If you're doing client work on Pantheon, Mark's guide is outstanding. Also, it's not a bad read…

GoDaddy acquires Elto to create a marketplace for WordPress professionals

Brian Krogsgard

April 10, 2015

Hosting

GoDaddy has acquired Elto to create a marketplace for WordPress professionals. Elto shut down late last year to re-think their strategy, and today it was reported by TechCrunch that they are joining GoDaddy to better execute their vision. The company's…

WordPress REST API security update, due to exposed revisions and draft posts

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2015

Security

From the Make WordPress Core blog: This release fixes a serious information disclosure vulnerability, which allowed for unpublished content and post revisions to be retrieved via the REST API. and This release was coordinated by the REST API team and…

WP101 and Sidekick are partnered with GoDaddy

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2015

Hosting

WP101 has inked a deal with GoDaddy's Pro (WordPress) hosting product to complement their deal with Sidekick, to enable a significant amount of user training for GoDaddy customers. Both deals are part of an overall agenda from GoDaddy to enable…

You are valuable

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2015

Design

The keys to being valuable: Be open. Be honest. Be willing. Be passionate. Result: Be valuable. Be employed. WordPress continues its dominance as a CMS. This is an obvious statement if you look at statistics for sites that use WordPress, but…

A podcast series on web design

Brian Krogsgard

April 6, 2015

Business

Matt Medeiros is doing a series on web design, and the business of it. In the fourth part, he interviews Carson McComas in regard to managing a $50,000 project. Carson worked on the eCommerce site I shared a while back.…

WordPress News with Beka Rice

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2015

DraftPlanet

Beka Rice and I cover the week in WordPress news with a short format (~15 minute) podcast. This week we talk about Mesh (an upcoming app by Automattic), 4.3 and 4.4 release leads, April Fools', and Array's year in review.

Productivity in a design agency

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2015

Design

Paper Leaf does mostly WordPress-centric design and development. Jeff Archibald shared an infographic with their productive breakdown: hours logged billable versus non-billable, projects won, etc. My favorite part was the breakdown of tasks in the hours that were logged. I've…

A theme shop year in review

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2015

Business

Mike McAlister has shared an in-depth post recapping his first year as an independent theme shop, Array. Array sells themes on their website, but has also been on WordPress.com for a while. However, they also experimented with Creative Market. What…

A deep dive into “passive” income and online marketing

Brian Krogsgard

April 2, 2015

Hosting

I've been doing a lot of research on the empire that Pat Flynn built. He discovered the potential for passive income after he realized a website he made to take notes for an architecture exam was getting a lot of traffic. He…

How to decide what should be a paid add-on

WordPress security release for all versions

What we learned today

Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins

WordPress News with Daniel Espinoza

Inside Jetpack

Hosting tips for developers

GoDaddy acquires Elto to create a marketplace for WordPress professionals

WordPress REST API security update, due to exposed revisions and draft posts

WP101 and Sidekick are partnered with GoDaddy

You are valuable

A podcast series on web design

WordPress News with Beka Rice

Productivity in a design agency

A theme shop year in review

A deep dive into “passive” income and online marketing

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