WordPress News

The WPScan team interviews Vlad (also…

Dan Knauss

July 2, 2021

The WPScan team interviews Vlad (also known as m0ze) who is a long-time contributor to the WPScan vulnerability database. Vlad shares thoughts on the state of WordPress security today: “By itself, the WordPress engine is quite safe… but WordPress CMS…

Jill Bender has announced that the…

Dan Knauss

July 2, 2021

WordPress Community

Jill Bender has announced that the Diverse Speaker Training group in the WordPress Community team is expanding to three programs for the next 12 months. Now there will be continuing Diverse Speakers Workshops, a new Speaker Placement program, and a…

WP Engine, which took ownership of Local…

Dan Knauss

July 2, 2021

Notes

WP Engine, which took ownership of Local upon the acquisition of Flywheel in June 2019, has discontinued its own local development tool, DevKit, and incorporated its features into Local. Additionally, all of Local’s tools and features are free now —…

Post Status Excerpt (No. 14) — Starting Your “Next Chapter” Project

David Bisset

July 1, 2021

BusinessPlanet

Cory and David talk about building a "career raft" or "next chapter" project and congratulate Ninja Forms on their 10-year anniversary.

Lauren Sternecky explains in some detail…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Business

Lauren Sternecky explains in some detail how The Events Calendar team tackled recurring events and why they needed to overhaul their system. She shares this because many companies often find themselves in a similar scenario — trying to fix “a…

Will Morris discusses HTTP headers —…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Security

Will Morris discusses HTTP headers — what they are and how to add five security headers to a site.

This week WP Engine announced the…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Security

This week WP Engine announced the launch of Premier, their enterprise WordPress platform. Premier offers security features and other items that belong in enterprise-level hosting: staging sites, developer environments, and automatic plugin updates. They also include custom blocks for WordPress.…

Cami Kaos covers some common questions…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

WordPress Community

Cami Kaos covers some common questions involving the Code of Conduct that is associated with the WordPress Community Team — in particular, what happens if someone "does something wrong" — and if the problem is not resolved? 🤔 Cami says…

FlipWP: A marketplace for acquisitions Alex…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

Hosting

FlipWP: A marketplace for acquisitions Alex Denning and Iain Poulson have officially launched FlipWP, which is being labeled as a “new private acquisition marketplace for WordPress.” 💸 Iain, fresh from his sale of Plugin Rank to Awesome Motive, notes in…

Automattic acquires Day One Automattic has…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

Design

Automattic acquires Day One Automattic has acquired Day One, a free journaling app that has won multiple Apple design awards and is available for most major devices, systems, and browsers. According to Paul Mayne, founder and CEO, work on the…

If you want a sneak peek…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

Design

If you want a sneak peek into the design overhaul of the WordPress.org blog, check out the public Figma design board. Looking good! 🎨

DAVID’S PICKS 📬 Videos 📺 Here…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

BusinessDesign

DAVID'S PICKS 📬 Videos 📺 Here are my video picks for the week: WordCamp Europe 2021: The video feeds from all three days of WCEUE are available on YouTube, with individual videos to be published in the coming weeks on…

HeroThemes has released Heroic Inbox which…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

Business

HeroThemes has released Heroic Inbox which “manages multiple business emails from different sources and from one powerful, shared mailbox inside WordPress.” 📨

Post Status Excerpt (No. 13) — WordPress Economy Study, Trying Gutenberg Again

David Bisset

June 17, 2021

PlanetPost Status Podcasts

More acquisitions! Is the WordPress market worth $500-600 BILLION? Cory and David discuss these topics and Gutenberg's barriers to winning back users.

Post Status Draft (No. 114) — Brad Touesnard on the Acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields

Cory Miller

June 9, 2021

DraftHosting

Cory Miller talks with Brad Touesnard of Delicious Brains about the company acquiring the Advanced Custom Fields plugin from Elliot Condon.

Jilt has announced they have stopped…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

Business

Jilt has announced they have stopped taking new accounts, and they will be shutting down on April 30, 2022. Existing customers will be able to use Jilt's service and support until that time. 🛒 I spoke with Beka Rice and…