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Podcast Picks 🎙️ Here are my…

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Dan Knauss
BusinessHosting
Podcast Picks 🎙️ Here are my podcast picks: Open Sourcery: Jonathan Bossenger had a discussion with Mika Epstein about the horrific experience she had when a member of the open-source community harassed her. This leads to a good talk about…

🌟 Featured Partner: Bluehost Everything your…

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Dan Knauss
Design
🌟 Featured Partner: Bluehost Everything your website needs — from start-up to success story — is at Bluehost. Whether you’re looking to create a website, blog, or online store, Bluehost will get you started with an all-in-one website platform tailored…

BuddyPress 9.0 “Mico” was released a…

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Dan Knauss
Design
BuddyPress 9.0 “Mico” was released a day before WordPress 5.8 with 10 new blocks. It was a short time frame development cycle, so kudos to the team for pulling it off. 🙌 I’m excited to see the block editor used…

Yash Rana lays a finger on…

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Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
Yash Rana lays a finger on common mistakes and mixed messages that many product makers are unknowingly making on their pricing pages. The list includes: not creating urgency (or overdoing it), not reducing exit points, keeping design and copy simple,…

Wordfence has a created a whitepaper…

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Dan Knauss
Security
Wordfence has a created a whitepaper aimed at developers and security researchers to share how coding flaws can introduce some of the most common and significant WordPress vulnerabilities — and how to prevent them. 🔒

Tony Perez’s approach to WordPress security…

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Dan Knauss
Security
Tony Perez's approach to WordPress security is not about complex configurations but three key tenets. These include 1) limiting access to the server stack to known and trusted sources, 2) limiting file access and knowing what is modified and introduced,…

The WPScan team interviews Vlad (also…

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Dan Knauss
Security
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…

This week WP Engine announced the…

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Dan Knauss
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.…

FlipWP: A marketplace for acquisitions Alex…

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Dan Knauss
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…

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Dan Knauss
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…
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