Scott Hack has released a plugin called BracketPress that allows you to create your own tournament pools. With March Madness just around the corner, this is great! The obvious advantages of a tool like this is that you can make a bracket for anything, not just what ESPN or other sources offer. And, businesses or groups can use all of their own branding, and keep the traffic from the pool.
Yoast updated their popular Google Analytics plugin in December to include new stats dashboards that pull in Google Analytics data to your site. The stats are pretty fancy and give a nice quick glance at your stats without leaving your WordPress dashboard. They’ve learned some lessons about building a plugin feature at scale along the way too.
Force majeure is a term that you don’t pay too much attention to in contracts until it matters. It means “superior force” in Latin, and typically refers to uncontrollable events like natural disasters, that prevent something in the contract from happening no matter what each side of the contract wants. Loopconf was postponed indefinitely today, due…
Per Søderlind, who calls Oslo his home, has developed an SVG logo Custom Control for the WordPress Customizer. It’s a proof of concept, but seems to be worth the time to review his walkthrough if you find yourself needing to customize the Customizer.
🤔 Tom Fanelli shares what he thinks are the most significant challenges facing WordPress: Unreliable hosting that doesn’t scale efficiently. A disconnect between hosting capacity and actual demand at the level of people visiting a site. Tom predicts “Hosting companies that don’t offer efficient customer service or page speed optimization” won’t be able to deal with…
Back in August, Oliver Sild announced in Post Status Slack that Patchstack was opening up “additional data” to “enrich the vulnerability data” their service discloses, now “with [a] real-time IP feed of attackers who hit [Patchstack’s] virtual patches.” Virtual patches are Patchstack’s quick interventions for customers’ sites when an official patch doesn’t exist yet for…
Timi Wahalahti believes that the WordPress community does not talk about the climate emergency enough, which we completely agree with. Timi lists some suggestions “to start the conversation.” 🚨 Even if you don’t completely agree with these ideas, it’s worth seriously considering what we can do to reduce waste at events and also on our…
