Josepha Haden Chomphosy on the future of WordPress (SEJ) and Do the Woo‘s series of visionary WordPress thinkers are worth a listen. Taking a long view is important when there’s so much short-term thinking.
WordPress 4.4.2 is out with a security and maintenance release. It should be a no-brainer update for everyone (and is probably updated on most of your sites by now, automatically). It affects all versions of WordPress and updates are out back through 3.7.
Mike Toppa makes a case against Singletons in the ongoing discussion regarding best practices for object oriented WordPress development.
James Giroux manages operations at PageLines. Last week, they were notified of a vulnerability by Sucuri, and he went through the rigmarole most of us are familiar with of juggling responsible disclosure and implementing a fix. James did a postmortem on his blog today: At the end of the day, this is a success. We were…
There is a discussion unfolding at Make WordPress about the future design of the WordPress “About” page. Initial discussion points posted by Tammie Lister ask some good focusing, “what if” questions: What if the CSS system was rebuilt from the ground up using components? What if a unified style or theme for design was adopted?…
Mary Ann Azevedo from Crunchbase makes the case that the WordPress hosting space may simultaneously be one of the most lucrative — yet underfunded — industries. 💸
Support Dash has announced they are transitioning from a standalone in-dashboard customer service app to a HelpScout app. Ben Sibley says the new app “will reduce the time you spend on support by providing you with key information inside every ticket. This includes your users’ URL, browser, WP version, and more.” This is pretty quick…
