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.
Akismet, the popular WordPress spam prevention plugin by Automattic, has released an update with a number of fixes, including two to address recent reports of DDOS risks in WordPress related to pingbacks. The post describes the two points that address the pingback issues: “Include X-Pingback-Forwarded-For header in outbound WordPress pingback verifications.” “Add a pre-check for…
The latest HeroPress essay is by Becky Davis, who describes how she got into web design and development with WordPress after 25 years of doing things for other people and their needs. She finally asked herself what she wanted, went out on a limb, and took a chance. She decided to learn web development and…
Post Status Member Spotlight: Parvez Akther – founder of ThriveDesk and WordCamp enthusiast.
It’s your weekly roundup of news briefs for busy WordPress professionals! This week we have: Core concerns • New Releases • Events, Planning & Inclusion • and some Things we don’t see every day…
Don’t miss David‘s fresh podcast picks for the week! 🎙️ As usual, Courtney has the week’s news from the people making WordPress at .org. 🏗️
Liquid Web has announced the acquisition of iThemes in an all cash deal that includes the entire iThemes team moving over to Liquid Web as an independent unit, and iThemes products will be included in various Liquid Web offerings.
Dion Hulse has been working on the automatic update functionality for WordPress 3.7, and he’s ready for you to test it. His update on the Make WordPress Core blog has a lot of detail about how it works, and what will prevent automatic updates from being triggered. Interestingly, the feature also makes hooks available to…
