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Automatically expire passwords for WordPress users

Brian Krogsgard

April 29, 2015

Frankie Jarrett has created yet another handy plugin, this time to auto expire passwords for users of certain roles based on a customizable number of days. This plugin could be handy for organizations that require password resets, or just for…

Hosting giant Endurance slammed by “independent research” company with suspect motivations

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2015

Hosting

I looked into this story for hours, and have concluded that the doomsday scenario described in the headline on Business Week and the report by Gotham City Researchers are exaggerated at best. Gotham City Research publishes these reports depicting crash…

Advantages of ems and rems over pixels

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2015

Design

I've long preferred a mix of ems rems (and percentages for that matter) over pixels in web design and front-end development. However, some of the original reasons have gone away as browsers have gotten smarter. Yet, Vasilis van Gemert has collected…

WordPress zero day vulnerability on comment text patched in 4.2.1

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2015

HostingSecurity

Many readers have likely heard by now that WordPress 4.2.1 is out (and probably already patched on your installs). The patch is in response to a zero day vulnerability reported by Jouko Pynnönen of Klikki. WordPress 4.2.1 includes a check on…

Where style guides fit process

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2015

Design

If you've ever worked on a site that evolves over time or for one that has pre-existing brand guidelines, then you probably know a bit about style guides. Chris Coyier has kindly named some common style guide strategies, and talked…

WordPress showcase: Politico for Europe

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2015

Design

Politico.eu just launched. Politico is a big political news outlet here in the United States, and their push to European politics is a major initiative for them. And they're making the push using WordPress as their CMS. I was surprised…

WordPress security release for all versions

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2015

Security

All past versions of WordPress "are affected by a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability, which could enable anonymous users to compromise a site," according to the release post by Gary Pendergast. WordPress 4.1.2, 4.2 RC3, and new tag releases on past versions…

What we learned today

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2015

Security

In my blog post about today's coordinated plugin update, I discussed the logistics of many of the top WordPress plugins working together to put out an update to fix the misuse of add_query_arg() and remove_query_arg(). Throughout the day, I've tracked other…

Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

April 20, 2015

PlanetSecurity

A coordinated plugin update occurred this morning between many popular WordPress plugins to address a common security vulnerability that allows for XSS cross-site scripting attacks.

Inside Jetpack

Brian Krogsgard

April 13, 2015

Hosting

Sarah Gooding has an interesting long form piece that goes inside Jetpack's multiple team setup at Automattic, and how they think about development and the structure of the plugin. I found the bit about installs... odd. Automattic is aware of…

Hosting tips for developers

Brian Krogsgard

April 13, 2015

Hosting

Mark Jaquith shares some hosting tips for developers using Pantheon's service. I wish I'd seen this before I used Pantheon for the first time. If you're doing client work on Pantheon, Mark's guide is outstanding. Also, it's not a bad read…

GoDaddy acquires Elto to create a marketplace for WordPress professionals

Brian Krogsgard

April 10, 2015

Hosting

GoDaddy has acquired Elto to create a marketplace for WordPress professionals. Elto shut down late last year to re-think their strategy, and today it was reported by TechCrunch that they are joining GoDaddy to better execute their vision. The company's…

WordPress REST API security update, due to exposed revisions and draft posts

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2015

Security

From the Make WordPress Core blog: This release fixes a serious information disclosure vulnerability, which allowed for unpublished content and post revisions to be retrieved via the REST API. and This release was coordinated by the REST API team and…

WP101 and Sidekick are partnered with GoDaddy

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2015

Hosting

WP101 has inked a deal with GoDaddy's Pro (WordPress) hosting product to complement their deal with Sidekick, to enable a significant amount of user training for GoDaddy customers. Both deals are part of an overall agenda from GoDaddy to enable…

You are valuable

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2015

Design

The keys to being valuable: Be open. Be honest. Be willing. Be passionate. Result: Be valuable. Be employed. WordPress continues its dominance as a CMS. This is an obvious statement if you look at statistics for sites that use WordPress, but…

Productivity in a design agency

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2015

Design

Paper Leaf does mostly WordPress-centric design and development. Jeff Archibald shared an infographic with their productive breakdown: hours logged billable versus non-billable, projects won, etc. My favorite part was the breakdown of tasks in the hours that were logged. I've…

Automatically expire passwords for WordPress users

Hosting giant Endurance slammed by “independent research” company with suspect motivations

Advantages of ems and rems over pixels

WordPress zero day vulnerability on comment text patched in 4.2.1

Where style guides fit process

WordPress showcase: Politico for Europe

WordPress security release for all versions

What we learned today

Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins

Inside Jetpack

Hosting tips for developers

GoDaddy acquires Elto to create a marketplace for WordPress professionals

WordPress REST API security update, due to exposed revisions and draft posts

WP101 and Sidekick are partnered with GoDaddy

You are valuable

Productivity in a design agency

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