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John Maeda posted his slides (along…

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDesign
John Maeda posted his slides (along link to video) of his 2017 Design in Tech Report at SXSW together with Jackie Xu. Some "key observations" include: - Design isn’t just about beauty; it’s about market relevance and meaningful results. -…

Parrot is an integrated site builder…

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
Parrot is an integrated site builder and editor concept for WordPress, and Davide Casali talks about it here. This concept started as the team thought of new approaches to how a future WordPress customization experience could have worked. I like…

Lilyana Yakimova shares that SiteGround’s site…

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
Lilyana Yakimova shares that SiteGround's site security scanner is now powered by Sucuri. I've long gotten SiteGround's "all clear" emails from HackAlert, but I trust Sucuri far more, so I'm happy to see the change.

If you’re a BuddyPress user, make…

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
If you're a BuddyPress user, make sure you upgrade to the latest security release, which fixes a few cross-site request forgery (CSRF) issues. You might also want to check out the updated version of the WooCommerce BuddyPress Integration plugin from…

Aaron Campbell talks about the difficulties…

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
Aaron Campbell talks about the difficulties of security disclosures, starting with the accurate statement, "security is ever a game of balance." Disclosure is an incredibly important part of the process. As Aaron points out, "you’ll look worse if someone else…

K. Adam White is the design…

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
K. Adam White is the design lead on the WordPress REST API, and has been involved with the project for the last three years. On the Bocoup blog, he gives an in-depth overview of his time with the project that…

I stumbled on the “Tozny API”…

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Dan Knauss
Security
I stumbled on the "Tozny API" recently which instead of passwords presents a functionality similar to "email me an access code" from Slack. The purpose of which is to help either verify email addresses or promote password-free authentication for your…

BuddyPress 2.8.0 (“San Matteo”) has recently…

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Dan Knauss
Security
BuddyPress 2.8.0 ("San Matteo") has recently been completed and it includes some nice security tweaks and improvements: more helpful “Activate Pending Accounts” screen, better compatibility with the Twenty Seventeen theme, more hooks for Messages, accessibility upgrades, and more. Looks like…

2016 was a good year for…

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Dan Knauss
Security
2016 was a good year for PHP according to Zend as they share survey results from 1200 developers. Some interesting results, most notably that over 50% of respondents are planning to move to PHP 7.x within one year (that's good).…

The theme directory disconnect

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDesign
In many ways, the WordPress theme directory is an invaluable resource -- for theme developers to have access to put their work out there in the wild for a huge audience, and for users to have a relatively safe way…

Mika Epstein notifies developers of a…

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
Mika Epstein notifies developers of a recent plugin guideline change in the WordPress plugin repo. Guideline 12 (“Public facing pages on WordPress.org may not spam”) is now more clear in broadcasting the message “Do not use your readme to spam.”…
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