WordPress News

If you use BuddyPress, check out…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

If you use BuddyPress, check out the BuddyPress Default Data plugin which recently released a new (1.2) version. BPDD will create lots of users, messages, friends, connections, groups, topics, activity items, and profile data. This is very useful for testing, kind…

Marco Martins shares how WordCamp Finland became WordCamp Helsinki. Understanding…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

Marco Martins shares how WordCamp Finland became WordCamp Helsinki. Understanding the decisions that led up to and guided this transition will be helpful to other WordCamp organizers going through the same process.

I enjoyed this post from James…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

I enjoyed this post from James Governor about how Amazon AWS is fighting the "must hire young" movement in tech. This made me think about the WordPress workforce in ten years or so. Since we can expect an increase in older…

Happy 14th birthday to the WordPress…

Brian Krogsgard

May 29, 2017

Happy 14th birthday to the WordPress project! Our own contributor, David Bisset, highlights the occasion.

If you were surprised by the…

Brian Krogsgard

May 29, 2017

If you were surprised by the SiteGround job listing for a CMO, then this will help explain. After 11 years at SiteGround, Tina Kesova is moving on from the company. She has nothing but great things to say about the…

Rainmaker goes service only, sells partial stake to Nimble Worldwide

Brian Krogsgard

May 29, 2017

BusinessHosting

Rainmaker launched in April of 2014, and now it's moving from a SaaS product model to a service-only model, which includes a partial buyout to a new stakeholder -- Nimble Worldwide. I was excited about the launch of the hosted…

WordPress in higher education, with Rachel Cherry — Draft Podcast

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2017

DraftHosting

In this episode, Brian is joined by Rachel Cherry, an experienced WordPress developer, including in the realm of using WordPress in higher education. She also organizes a WordPress for higher-ed conference, WPCampus.

WordPress 4.7.5 is out, and you’re…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2017

WordPress 4.7.5 is out, and you're probably already up to date. But in case you aren't, you should be!

Avada is the most popular Theme…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2017

Avada is the most popular Theme Forest theme ever, and one of the most installed WordPress themes on the planet. Even though a recent vulnerability was disclosed months ago, the attack vector was just detailed, and lots of folks are…

The WordCamp Europe team has written…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2017

The WordCamp Europe team has written an open letter to the new French President, asking that he help hopeful conference attendees get visa approvals. Many have apparently been rejected due to the low cost of the event. I hope this…

Matias Ventura has provided an update…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2017

Matias Ventura has provided an update about the redevelopment of the WordPress editor. The logic flow is diagrammed and broken down like this: inferring a block representation of the post content (parsing); describing the post as an ordered list of…

Is “Mobile First” really “Desktop Worst”?…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2017

Design

Is "Mobile First" really "Desktop Worst"? Oliver Brooks (Creative Director at Metalab) explains his dislike for the unnecessary use of mobile menus in desktop browser views: Mobile First should not be taken as an opportunity to over-simplify and, by the…

I would wager a good number…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2017

I would wager a good number of developers don't feel their code is 100% "clean and tidy," so you might enjoy Harry Roberts sharing his thoughts on the matter. It seems like a superficial thing to worry about, but Harry…

Recently a vulnerability affecting WordPress core…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2017

Recently a vulnerability affecting WordPress core and the password reset functionality came to light. Robert Rowley over at Pagely explains: Under three specific conditions the "forgot password?" functionality can be manipulated into sending the URL to reset a WordPress user’s…

MariaDB Corporation, the company behind MariaDB…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2017

MariaDB Corporation, the company behind MariaDB (a community-developed fork of the MySQL), announced a fundraising round of $27 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB). This brings the total raised to around $67 million. They plan to use the new…

Evan Mattson explains some strategies for…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2017

Evan Mattson explains some strategies for offloading your WordPress media library to Amazon S3, which makes spinning up new development and staging environments quicker and easier.