ByDan Knauss
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Justin Tadlock wonders, as the third-party alternatives to the core editor proliferate, should there be an API for them? 🤔
Meanwhile, WordPress.com has transitioned its users to the block editor. ✨
WP Cloud is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) built on the hosting infrastructure that’s behind WP.com, Pressable, and WordPress VIP with GridPane soon to follow. Agencies that want to white label their client hosting are ideal customers for WP Cloud via GridPane.
A coordinated plugin update occurred this morning between many popular WordPress plugins to address a common security vulnerability that allows for XSS cross-site scripting attacks.
The WordPress REST API is a huge initiative and feature plugin being developed for the core WordPress project. But it can be a bit confusing if you don’t know much about it yet. Let’s discuss what this project is, why it’s important, and how to get involved.
Two of the initiatives for WordPress 4.3 are for further improving WordPress (especially mobile) UI and re-evaluating password management. Starting Thursday, lead developer Helen Housandí will host UI chats in the WordPress Slack #design channel. Additionally, lead developer Mark Jaquith further laid out a plan for re-thinking WordPress passwords: Default to generating a password for the user —…
I had the privilege to attend and be the media partner at A Day of REST, the world’s first conference devoted to the WordPress REST API. Here’s my initial review, and some pictures, from the event.
Ever tried using the default RSS widget included with WordPress to show a photo blog or media embedded in a RSS feed? This plugin adds that feature. It will grab images (that have been embedded) and show them on the front end. Now you can show off your WordPress.com photo blog or other photo site.
