WordPress News

Understanding WordPress security vulnerabilities

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2015

Daniel Cid has a good post on Sucuri that describes how they look at WordPress plugin vulnerabilities. Contrary to popular belief, just because you hear “SQL Injection”, it doesn’t mean someone can actually hack your site. The real problem comes…

GoomWay

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2015

Development

Code should Get Out Of My Way. GoomWay!

Running a successful membership site in real life, with Jonathan Williamson

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2015

BusinessDraft

This interview is with Jonathan Williamson, co-founder of CGCookie. He’s going to talk to us about running a real world membership website on WordPress. Jonathan is Pippin Williamson's twin brother, and he has years of experience running membership websites. There is much that we can learn from him.

The results of a $50,000 redesign

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2015

Design

This isn't WordPress-specific, but Andrew Youderian wrote an outstanding case study of his company's $50,000 redesign. The redesign is for an eCommerce company and includes more than just the website design -- it's branding, migration from Magento to Shopify, and…

Yoast SEO vulnerability, disclosure, and forced upgrade

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2015

Security

Yoast released a new version of the WordPress SEO plugin in the last 24 hours, which fixes a blind SQL injection vulnerability. According to a post mortem by Joost de Valk, the bug wasn't caught in security audits, but was…

New theme page has caused a large drop in referrals for commercial shops

Brian Krogsgard

March 10, 2015

Design

The new WordPress.org commercial theme page -- which was launched just a couple of weeks ago -- seems to have greatly reduced the number of referrals to commercial theme shops. Many commercial theme providers featured on WordPress.org are noting 80%+…

Micro and niche conferences abound

Brian Krogsgard

March 5, 2015

Hosting

There have been many announcements of late for micro and niche conferences. This is a steady occurrence these days, which I'm happy to see, but it's not easy to keep up with it all. I'm even considering a calendar of…

WordPress security whitepaper

Brian Krogsgard

March 5, 2015

Security

The WordPress.org website now includes a WordPress security whitepaper, donated by WordPress.com VIP. It's sparse in its current form, but it's a great start. Why does this matter? Well, a whitepaper from the official project is a great tool for…

Find WordPress themes for a business

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2015

Business

This is one of those articles that's just good to have for referencing friends, family, or under-budget leads to. Clay Teller gives a nice intro at WP Site Care to small business owners that need to get a website up…

Adii Pienaar is making a WordPress comeback with stake in Obox

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Adii Pienaar is making a WordPress comeback after over a year away from the community. The WooThemes co-founder has made a strategic investment into Obox, the team behind the newly launched Layers product. In return, he's received a 30% stake in the company to complement Receiptful, his new eCommerce product.

A case for the front-end editor

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2015

Hosting

On WP Shout, Fred Meyer makes an impassioned case for the front-end editor, and why he believes it deserves a renewed effort as a WordPress feature plugin and eventual WordPress core inclusion. It's a really thoughtful post, and at well…

The big business of fashion blogging

Brian Krogsgard

March 2, 2015

Business

This is a bit offbeat for me, but I found a story shared by Longreads this weekend that I really enjoyed. It's about how Amber Venz created rewardStyle, a (now) huge player in fashion affiliate marketing. In three years the…

The most popular WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2015

BusinessPlanet

WordPress plugin popularity has always been pretty tough to figure out. We only had download counts or independent, third party website scrapers to tell us anything. Now, WordPress.org itself has more data that's being tested and launched to give us real insight into the popularity of WordPress plugins.

Theme design for developers

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2015

Design

Yes! This is important. I get really worked up when I see basic concepts of design ignored by developers. I mean, I'm not a great designer by any means, but we can all learn a few things. Here are some…

It’s time to ditch download counts on WordPress.org and get real stats

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2015

Security

I'm grumpy today. Clickbait journalism annoys me, and WordPress security related clickbait journalism especially annoys me. Ars Technica, PC World, ZD Net, and TripWire are just a few sites that reported over a million WordPress sites were susceptible to being hacked…

Twitter introduces an official plugin for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

Twitter has finally announced an official WordPress plugin. It's pretty thorough, and on a quick test run, works as advertised. Here's a rundown of some of the features and background.