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BlogVault vulnerability exposed tens of thousands of sites to hacking

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2017

BlogVault has 20,000 active installs of their free plugin on WordPress.org, and on their home page they boast 85,000+ sites in their network. Over the weekend, they disclosed a vulnerability in their plugin that exposed customers, and an unknown percentage…

StudioPress relaunched, going all in on a hosted product

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2017

Hosting

StudioPress has a brand new look, and is now marketing itself primarily as StudioPress Sites. At a foundational level, StudioPress Sites feels like a mashup of other products under the parent company umbrella, backed by the powerful StudioPress brand. In…

WooCommerce switches accounts to utilize WordPress.com credentials

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2017

Security

WooCommerce has officially switched over to require WordPress.com account credentials. The announcement was made by Todd Wilkens, the new lead of WooCommerce within Automattic. Todd was formerly the head of mobile and chat products at Atlassian (HipChat, etc). This change…

We have more big hosting news,…

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2017

Hosting

We have more big hosting news, again from Liquid Web. They've acquired WiredTree, the much beloved VPS service. According to Liquid Web's announcement, WiredTree customers will be migrated to their infrastructure. The post also says Liquid Web has 600 team…

I sent out the first post…

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2017

Design

I sent out the first post and newsletter for my new Commerce Notebook project. If you didn't subscribe, I figured I'd share the Footnotes from that newsletter here, this time. If you are into eCommerce, I hope you'll check out…

WordPress 4.7.2 shipped today with security…

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2017

Security

WordPress 4.7.2 shipped today with security updates. All three updates require existing administrative access, so don't seem to have a super high risk profile compared to publicly exposed areas. You should've already gotten automatic update notices for your websites --…

Editor blocks design is underway

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2017

Design

The editor blocks concept is being designed. An extremely healthy conversation is happening on Make Design around what the behavior should be, and how people may interact with a block-style editor. I'm really liking the general UI concepts, and most…

Plasso is an online subscription service…

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2017

Design

Plasso is an online subscription service that enables payments and membership functionality using the Stripe platform. Tom Mcfarlin wrote about Plasso's recently released plugin and themes for WordPress -- which WordPress veteran Jason Schuller had a hand in. Plasso is…

New Year’s resolutions for WordPress developers

Jack Lenox

January 12, 2017

DevelopmentPlanet

It's a new year, and a great time to set some New Year's resolutions as a WordPress developer. Here are some practical tips to up your game working with the WordPress code base.

WP CLI is now under the WordPress umbrella

Brian Krogsgard

January 8, 2017

Security

WP CLI is moving under the umbrella of WordPress.org. Matt Mullenweg made the announcement, and in it says he's also, "bringing together a number of companies in the WordPress ecosystem to solidify their financial support of runcommand so that Daniel…

Contributing to Twenty Seventeen

Sami Keijonen

January 7, 2017

BusinessDesign

Sami Keijonen shares his experience as a first time contributor to the WordPress default theme building process. He primarily worked within the realm of SVG icons for the Twenty Seventeen theme.

Core focus areas get leads, clarity

Brian Krogsgard

January 5, 2017

Design

The three focus areas for WordPress core for 2017 have been assigned leads. The focus areas are replacing the WordPress major release cycle, as described in the State of the Word, and expanded on in my interview with Matt Mullenweg.…

New WordPress.org homepage is “unstuck”

Brian Krogsgard

December 27, 2016

Design

The new homepage for WordPress.org is live. It's a working prototype, and I like the way Matt put it on his blog: "What’s on the page today actually isn’t that important, even though it’s better in many ways, the key…

Make WordPress Hosting is the newest…

Brian Krogsgard

December 27, 2016

Hosting

Make WordPress Hosting is the newest Make WordPress sub site. Mike Schroder writes that the purpose of the site is so, "individuals with hosting experience can collaborate on best practices and tools for the WordPress community’s benefit." The site is…

After a private beta period, the…

Brian Krogsgard

December 16, 2016

Design

After a private beta period, the Cookbook plugin is now available for everyone. It's a commercial recipe plugin by WP Site Care and Feast, and it looks really nice. It's also a good case study in single product marketing design…

Robert Rowley has been monitoring insecure…

Brian Krogsgard

December 16, 2016

Security

Robert Rowley has been monitoring insecure WordPress plugins which exposed PHP objects to potential injection on Pagely servers -- and shares how they addressed the issue. There are several interesting takeaways, but I especially liked his note about communicating with…

BlogVault vulnerability exposed tens of thousands of sites to hacking

StudioPress relaunched, going all in on a hosted product

WooCommerce switches accounts to utilize WordPress.com credentials

We have more big hosting news,…

I sent out the first post…

WordPress 4.7.2 shipped today with security…

Editor blocks design is underway

Plasso is an online subscription service…

New Year’s resolutions for WordPress developers

WP CLI is now under the WordPress umbrella

Contributing to Twenty Seventeen

Core focus areas get leads, clarity

New WordPress.org homepage is “unstuck”

Make WordPress Hosting is the newest…

After a private beta period, the…

Robert Rowley has been monitoring insecure…

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