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Why we don’t use a CDN: A story about SPDY and SSL

Travis Northcutt

February 5, 2014

A great post from Zack Tollman at The Theme Foundry on why defaulting to what most consider best practices can sometimes be detrimental to performance. Using a CDN (content delivery network) for the new site was a forgone conclusion, as…

Cory Miller, Founder & CEO of iThemes

Brian Krogsgard

January 21, 2014

BusinessDraft

I had the opportunity recently to talk to Cory Miller, the founder of iThemes. Cory started iThemes in January 2008, so they are currently celebrating their 6th anniversary. Cory is a really thoughtful businessman and leader, and I really enjoyed…

iThemes acquihires Better WP Security, a million+ download WordPress security plugin

Brian Krogsgard

December 4, 2013

BusinessSecurity

iThemes has hired Chris Wiegman and taken over his very popular plugin, Better WP Security. Better WP Security has over a million downloads on WordPress.org and sells commercial support and installation services on FooPlugins. Better WP Security also has excellent…

Beware of a spam email disguised as if it’s from Yoast

Brian Krogsgard

November 26, 2013

Security

An email spam campaign disguised as being from Yoast is making the rounds. If you get an email from Yoast linking to their latest post, be sure to verify the sender and the link before you click it. According to…

WordPress security tips for your website

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2013

Security

Brad Williams and Brian Messenlehner are co-founders of WebDevStudios and last week they teamed up with SiteGround to do a security presentation. They offer some scary statistics on security, go over an example hack, cover ways to secure your website,…

Automattic to acquire unnamed service

Brian Krogsgard

September 18, 2013

BusinessSecurity

Automattic is acquiring a security firm that has yet to be named or officially announced. The acquisition is said to be Automattic's largest yet. Matt Mullenweg spoke to TechWeekEurope about security within WordPress and a bit about this acquisition. Well,…

WordPress 3.6.1 security release is out

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2013

Make WordPressSecurity

WordPress 3.6.1 is out as a security release. Three security fixes were made, plus an additional security hardening measure. The security fixes affect all previous versions of WordPress. Check out the release details, and go update your sites.

Flagged by Google in style(.css)

Brian Krogsgard

August 20, 2013

SecurityWordPress News

My apologies for the headline. I couldn't resist. Yesterday, Jeff at WP Tavern covered yet another new A/B testing service. With dreadful timing, the site was also flagged by Google as malware for some users. As a commenter points out…

Meet Philip Arthur Moore, Premium Theme Lead at Automattic

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2013

BusinessDesign

Philip Arthur Moore is the Premium Theme team lead at Automattic. I'm thrilled to have been able to ask Philip some questions about WordPress.com premium themes, their processes, and working at Automattic. His answers are thorough and very insightful, and…

Developing for WordPress? Keep your shit secure

mikejolley

August 14, 2013

Security

In this article I talk about the current state of the wordpress.org repository backed up by recent statistics, and give advice on keeping plugins and themes secure during development.

All plugins are (not) created equal

Sarah Pressler

July 30, 2013

DesignSecurity

Plugins are the new black in WordPress site development, and picking out the perfect plugins for your site can quickly become overwhelming. The WordPress.org plugin repository hosts over 26,000 plugins and the plugin forum contains over 1.3 million posts. Check…

Dissecting a WordPress brute force attack

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2013

Security

If you've ever wanted a tour through the internals of a WordPress brute force attack, this is the post for you. Tony Perez, of Sucuri, uses an example attack to teach about what happens during such an attack. Tony also…

How Lift is taking WordPress to the Emmy’s

Brian Krogsgard

July 18, 2013

DesignSecurity

Lift is a WordPress-powered product, design and consultancy business. I've been following Chris Wallace, a Partner at Lift, for a long time. I've always known they do a lot of work for television and other interactive media, and this morning…

Disturbing report On WordPress plugin security

Brian Krogsgard

July 2, 2013

SecurityWordPress News

Checkmarx, a company founded in 2006 that specializes in automated security code reviews has published a security vulnerability report on the top 50 plugins on the WordPress plugin repository. As WP Tavern's Jeff Chandler summarizes, more than 20% of the…

WordPress 3.5.2 released (maintenance and security release)

Brian Krogsgard

June 21, 2013

Make WordPressSecurity

WordPress 3.5.2 has just been released. As this is a maintenance and security release, there is no reason not to update right away. The releases fixes some fringe vulnerabilities and minor bugs.

WordPress Core is Secure

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2013

Make WordPressSecurity

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…

Why we don’t use a CDN: A story about SPDY and SSL

Cory Miller, Founder & CEO of iThemes

iThemes acquihires Better WP Security, a million+ download WordPress security plugin

Beware of a spam email disguised as if it’s from Yoast

WordPress security tips for your website

Automattic to acquire unnamed service

WordPress 3.6.1 security release is out

Flagged by Google in style(.css)

Meet Philip Arthur Moore, Premium Theme Lead at Automattic

Developing for WordPress? Keep your shit secure

All plugins are (not) created equal

Dissecting a WordPress brute force attack

How Lift is taking WordPress to the Emmy’s

Disturbing report On WordPress plugin security

WordPress 3.5.2 released (maintenance and security release)

WordPress Core is Secure

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