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WordPress Core is Secure

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2013

Jason Cosper writes on the WP Engine blog that people need to stop saying WordPress is not secure, because it is. WordPress Core is rarely cause for security concerns, and hasn't been for some time. However, due to WordPress' massive…

Vagrant and Custom Domains with WordPress

Curtis McHale

May 8, 2013

Development

Here we learn to do your own custom WordPress install in Varrying Vagrant Vagrants on a custom domain for a client site.

ThemeForest theme nets over $100,000 per month, sadly

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2013

DesignWordPress News

The Envato blog highlighted a record breaking theme on their blog today, for achieving $100,000 in revenue per month, two months in a row. All in all, this theme, Avada, has achieved nearly a million dollars in revenue since its…

New WordPress host, Flywheel, raises funding

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2013

Hosting

In an interview on Silicon Prairie News, Flywheel hosting has announced that they received funding for their WordPress hosting startup. It's worth noting that Silicon Prairie News and Flywheel share a co-founder, so the article seems very much like self-promotion.…

Working with WordPress and Vagrant – Basics

Curtis McHale

May 3, 2013

Development

An overview of using Varrying Vagrant Vagrants as your local development environment.

Level up your WordPress development skills

Curtis McHale

May 3, 2013

Development

Great talk by Tom about how to take your WordPress development skills to the next level.

How to Programmatically Populate a WordPress Template

Curtis McHale

May 2, 2013

Development

I haven't had to do this yet, but seems to be a pretty easy thing to do with Tom's code.

Towards a partial page templating system in WordPress

Curtis McHale

April 30, 2013

Development

Here's a great article by Zack Tollman exploring ideas around caching parts of pages for views in WordPress.

Upgrade your caching plugins: Vulnerabilities in W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

SecurityWordPress News

Tony Perez, of Sucuri, has provided a summary, with explanation for the less security fluent of us, of a vulnerability in both W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache. Definitely update right away.

ZippyKid partners with Google PageSpeed

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

Hosting

ZippyKid has partnered with Google PageSpeed to "automatically apply web performance best practices" to their WordPress sites. The test cases look pretty promising.

Check your security settings: Brute force attacks against WordPress and Joomla sites have tripled

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

SecurityWordPress News

Hosting providers around the world are seeing a massive increase in brute force attacks against WordPress and Joomla sites. Attackers are looking to gain access to and compromise accounts, but failing that, they are slowing down their targets or even…

Choosing a WordPress Theme and Why You’re Doing It Wrong

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

Design

Focusing on graphics alone is the main mistake people make when selecting a theme. To help you out, here’s a better approach.

Handling recurring content in WordPress theme development

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2013

Development

Recurring content is present in just about all WordPress themes, and handling it properly is important to keep themes lean, extensible and scalable. So what’s the right approach for handling recurring content in different situations?

A summary of recent WordPress security attacks

Brian Krogsgard

April 16, 2013

SecurityWordPress News

Chris Jean, of iThemes, has done a nice job summarizing the recent flood of WordPress brute force login attacks, along with ways to prevent them. There is also a Codex page on handling brute force attacks that's getting a lot…

An excercise in design of the new post format UI

Brian Krogsgard

April 11, 2013

DesignMake WordPress

Sara Cannon, Creative Director at Range, has put together a number of ideas for possible designs of the post format UI proposed in WordPress 3.6 beta 1. She goes through a number of options from putting the post formats in…

Review an intentionally vulnerable plugin

paul de wouters

April 10, 2013

DevelopmentSecurity

This is a really nice idea. It's a coding challenge where you have to audit a plugin for security flaws. A chance to learn more about best practices and getting your code reviewed by core developers.

WordPress Core is Secure

Vagrant and Custom Domains with WordPress

ThemeForest theme nets over $100,000 per month, sadly

New WordPress host, Flywheel, raises funding

Working with WordPress and Vagrant – Basics

Level up your WordPress development skills

How to Programmatically Populate a WordPress Template

Towards a partial page templating system in WordPress

Upgrade your caching plugins: Vulnerabilities in W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache

ZippyKid partners with Google PageSpeed

Check your security settings: Brute force attacks against WordPress and Joomla sites have tripled

Choosing a WordPress Theme and Why You’re Doing It Wrong

Handling recurring content in WordPress theme development

A summary of recent WordPress security attacks

An excercise in design of the new post format UI

Review an intentionally vulnerable plugin

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