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Daniel Bachhuber is the new maintainer of WP-CLI

Travis Northcutt

April 17, 2014

Today Cristi Burcă (perhaps better known as scribu) announced on the WP-CLI blog that Daniel Bachhuber will now be the maintainer of the WP-CLI project. As Cristi notes, he's no longer using WordPress, so it makes perfect sense to hand off the project…

Keep an eye on accessibility in your projects

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2014

Design

For one of the first projects I ever worked on in an agency setting, we had a monster list of items to either finish, ask about, or respond to. A classic punch list. So, I was given this list in…

Microcaching with Nginx

Travis Northcutt

April 15, 2014

Development

Zach Brown has a nice post up on how to set up microcaching with Nginx combined with Batcache to handle big spikes of traffic (or just to maximize efficiency and enable running a site on low resources). Zach explains that…

Keys to building a successful remote workforce

Brian Krogsgard

April 14, 2014

BusinessSecurity

Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood writes why companies are not hiring the best and the brightest employees. While the title says the article is about hiring, it's really about working. His points boil down to a promotion for distributed workforces.…

WordPress 3.8.3 fixes a bug with “Quick Draft”

Travis Northcutt

April 14, 2014

Make WordPressSecurity

Last week's 3.8.2 security release introduced a bug where drafts written with the Quick Draft tool in the dashboard were not saved. That bug is fixed with today's 3.8.3 release. What's really interesting about this release is that not only is…

WordPress.vim

Travis Northcutt

April 14, 2014

Development

Darshan Sawardekar has released a very impressive looking plugin for Vim, appropriately titled WordPress.vim. If you use Vim as your editor/IDE, you should definitely check this out. The plugin includes support for an impressive array of features and other tools,…

Image optimization and automation in WordPress

Travis Northcutt

April 14, 2014

Development

Matt Cromwell compares a few different image optimization methods for WordPress sites, including EWWW Image Optimizer, manual optimization, and WPInject. Matt also mentions the WP Smush.it plugin, but interestingly, implies that it produces results similar to EWWW, only less effective. I…

Severe Jetpack vulnerability disclosed, some sites being updated automatically

Brian Krogsgard

April 10, 2014

SecurityWordPress News

A severe Jetpack vulnerability has been disclosed and patched in Jetpack. The bug allows attackers to publish posts, and has existed since 2012. The Jetpack blog post states the following: During an internal security audit, we found a bug that allows an…

Security updates for 3.5 and 3.6

Travis Northcutt

April 10, 2014

Security

The good folks over at interconnect/it have backported the recent security updates for WordPress to the 3.5 and 3.6 branches, due to having some clients running older versions that, for whatever reason, aren't able to upgrade at this time. They've…

WordPress.com theme directory gets facelift, changes visible data

Brian Krogsgard

April 10, 2014

Design

The WordPress.com theme directory received a facelift yesterday, as well as some functionality changes. New design The new design isn't a big stretch from the previous one, but it is cleaner and more modern. One item to note is that…

WordPress 3.8.2, 3.7.2, and 3.9 Release Candidate 1 have been released

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2014

Make WordPressSecurity

All of your websites are ready for updates. There is a security and maintenance release ready for WordPress 3.8.2 and WordPress 3.7.2. It's being released for both 3.7 and 3.8 due to the auto-updating feature released in WordPress 3.7. One…

Cognitive Lode: tips for understanding user behavior online

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2014

Design

Cognitive Lode is a nice little resource site by the folks at ribot that aims to educate web-makers about the various behaviors of web-users, "to help you make better products." Each study is nicely illustrated, cites additional resources, and generally…

DevPress sold for $14,000 on Flippa

Brian Krogsgard

April 6, 2014

BusinessDesign

Update: Devin Price is the new owner. DevPress has a storied four year history, and today it's been sold on Flippa for a mere $14,000. What started as a partnership between four well known WordPress community members was eventually reduced…

Theme composition vs frameworks

Travis Northcutt

April 1, 2014

DesignDevelopment

Tom J Nowell published a great post today on theme composition vs frameworks. He points out a problem with theme frameworks: what you need or want to do doesn't always fit the way the framework is laid out. The problem…

Introducing Dictator

Travis Northcutt

March 31, 2014

Development

Daniel Bachhuber just announced Dictator, a "provisioning system for WordPress." One key idea Dictator adopted from provisioning systems: environments are ephemeral. WordPress no longer doing what you want it to? You should be able to destroy it and provision a…

Redis object cache for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

March 31, 2014

Development

WordPress has long had a Memcached backend available for object caching. Over the past several weeks, Eric Mann and Erick Hitter have built out a Redis-based alternative for object caching. Updated Source: https://ethitter.com/2014/04/redis-object-cache-plugin-available-for-download/

Daniel Bachhuber is the new maintainer of WP-CLI

Keep an eye on accessibility in your projects

Microcaching with Nginx

Keys to building a successful remote workforce

WordPress 3.8.3 fixes a bug with “Quick Draft”

WordPress.vim

Image optimization and automation in WordPress

Severe Jetpack vulnerability disclosed, some sites being updated automatically

Security updates for 3.5 and 3.6

WordPress.com theme directory gets facelift, changes visible data

WordPress 3.8.2, 3.7.2, and 3.9 Release Candidate 1 have been released

Cognitive Lode: tips for understanding user behavior online

DevPress sold for $14,000 on Flippa

Theme composition vs frameworks

Introducing Dictator

Redis object cache for WordPress

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