The witty and charismatic lead of the BuddyPress and bbPress projects, John James Jacoby, recently announced leaving Automattic. Now reveals he’s joined Team 10up.
🤔 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…
The folks at Orbtr launched their new plugin this weekend at WordCamp Atlanta. I spoke with them for a while, and I think their product is promising. Imagine it as a Hubspot-esque product, but all within the WordPress dashboard. It handles email marketing, landing pages, tracking etc. I also like that it integrates with some other products…
WP Bytes is an attractive new WordPress tutorial website that, in my opinion, is taking an interesting approach to articles. Kevin Dees started the site, and his main method of categorization is by series. So you can learn all you want about the loop in a series, or custom post types, etc. I look forward…
Sami Keijonen proposes a first draft of what a WordPress school curriculum may look like. I’ve known Sami for quite a while (via the Theme Hybrid forums) and I’d love to see him move forward with a WordPress course like this.
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…
I must have missed this in Matt’s State of the Word talk at WordCamp San Francisco, but Vid Luther of ZippKid has brought it to my attention that WordPress 3.7 may include an automatic upgrade feature for minor versions. Meaning, if there is a WordPress 3.7.1, it would happen automatically like Chrome does. That would…
