WordPress News

WordPress 6.0.2 Security and Maintenance Release: WordPress.org’s Bug Bounty Program at Work

Dan Knauss

August 31, 2022

Ram Dall over at Wordfence has a good breakdown of three vulnerabilities patched in the WordPress 6.0.2 Security and Maintenance Release.

Core Web Vitals in The Real World and The WordPress Ecosystem

Dan Knauss

August 31, 2022

HostingNotes

NitroPack is hosting a free webinar on Wednesday, September 14th at 5pm EET / 11:00am ET, NitroPack’s team jointly with Salvatore Denaro, Technical Consultant at Google, will discuss all things Core Web Vitals, web performance, and WordPress. Register today!

WordPress 6.0.2, Advanced Admin Handbook, Accessibility Tags for Block Themes, and Improving the Template Creation Experience

Courtney Robertson

August 31, 2022

DesignHosting

WordPress 6.0.2, Advanced Admin Handbook, Accessibility Tags for Block Themes, and Improving the Template Creation Experience

New pricing model at Business Bloomer aims at Purchasing Power Parity

Dan Knauss

August 31, 2022

BusinessNotes

Rodolfo Melogli has changed the pricing structure at bto be more affordable to people around the globe. He's done this by calculating "Purchasing Power Parity." Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) is a metric that can be used to determine the actual…

Why I (still) love…

Dan Knauss

August 31, 2022

DesignDevelopment

What do you (still) love in tech that's old? (Tell us in the comments.)

Naming is Hard: Content Types on Learn WordPress

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

Make WordPressNotes

Based on a public discussion led by Hugh Lashbrooke, Workshops (5-15 minute instructional videos) are going to be called Tutorials, moving forward while Social Learning Spaces (live and collaborative learning sessions) have become Online Workshops. No change to Courses (long-form…

jQuery in the UK

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

DesignDevelopment

Getting rid of jQuery on gov.uk Andy Sellick, Senior frontend developer, GOV.UK: The main disadvantage of using jQuery is that it has to be included in the page assets, which can slow down how quickly a site loads. GOV.UK's pages…

Atarim and MainWP Partner Up

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

BusinessNotes

Vito Peleg and Dennis Dornon have teamed up to bring MainWP's site management tool inside the Atarim agency dashboard. https://twitter.com/vitopeleg/status/1557395997973684225

LearnDash: Plugin or SaaS?

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

BusinessNotes

I don't think I've ever seen a WordPress plugin priced and marketed this well as both product and service.

Naming is Hard: Social and Schema Images

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

DevelopmentNotes

This was a neat post from Joost de Valk back in July where he did some thinking out loud about the challenges of naming in Schema.org image standards to distinguish between featured and poster images on social networks: I’ve been…

Blogging with a Newsletter

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

DesignDevelopment

It shouldn't be this complicated... Nice end result though, by using "a potent combination of MDX and MJML." Josh Comeau explains his workflow from Markdown to static site publishing and an email newsletter. It's a complex arrangement, but doing it…

Member Spotlight: Jonathan Bossenger

Michelle Frechette

August 30, 2022

Member SpotlightsWordPress News

As a WordPress Code Instructor Jonathan Bossenger gets to work with the Training team and the WordPress community in creating technical educational content for Learn WordPress.

WP.org outage notice gets written into plugin user’s salt keys

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

DevelopmentNotes

On August 8, wordpress.org was down for a few hours after a Chicago data center outage. During the outage, a user of a password security plugin reported it replaced salt keys with an outage notice, leading to a WSOD on a customer's site.

Two Tools: Better Presentations from iA and Super Fast Collaborative Code Editing with Zed

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

DesignDevelopment

iA is developing a Markdown-based, radically simplified presentation app (called Presenter) that helps you tell stories effectively. Zed is the spiritual successor to Atom — and focused on fast, collaborative editing. You can get it at GitHub.

The fastest (headless) WooCommerce on earth…

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

BusinessDevelopment

So they say. Specifically, David Mainayar said in Woo Weekly #399 that it's the fastest he's seen, and I imagine he's seen a lot.

Blueprint This: A WooCommerce Private Store

Dan Knauss

August 29, 2022

NotesWooCommerce

This is a great explainer from Cozmos Labs for setting up WooCommerce as a private/walled garden store. Why do that? I'll tell you why! It should be a 1-click install blueprint too.