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The trojan emoji

ByBrian Krogsgard

Andrew Nacin, lead developer of WordPress, just finished a talk at Loopconf, where he talked about a series of related WordPress security fixes that spanned two years, with the final fix included into WordPress core under the guise of emoji support.

Nonces that are used only once

ByBrady Vercher

The word nonce indicates a number used only once, but in WordPress nonces can be used multiple times within 24 hours, although they are unique to the user, action, and ideally an object. Usually, that’s all that’s necessary, but to generate a nonce that really is used only once, Stephen Harris details a method to…

You’re using transients wrong

ByBrian Krogsgard

Ryan McCue has written an insightful post about caching data in WordPress with the Transients API. Most interesting to me is how he describes expiration in transients as a “maximum age” versus a “guaranteed expiration”. He also makes a worthwhile point about how even when you store transients, it doesn’t mean they won’t be expired…

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Naming is Hard: Social and Schema Images

ByDan Knauss

This was a neat post from Joost de Valk back in July where he did some thinking out loud about the challenges of naming in Schema.org image standards to distinguish between featured and poster images on social networks: I’ve been playing a lot with Schema and Social images recently and one thing has become clear:…

Software development tips you probably still need to learn

ByBrian Krogsgard

New Relic has some advice for programming concepts to learn for newly graduated software engineers. While they target degreed engineers, I think these topics are quite practical for anyone that considers themselves a programmer or developer. Some of my favorites: How to write (More than just code!) Regex (The justification here was fantastic, and has…