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Heather Burns has one of the…

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Brian Krogsgard

Heather Burns has one of the most incredible WordPress stories I've read. Two days later my solicitor phoned: the judge had ruled the case was “not in the public interest.” That is Scottish legal parlance for “an absolute load of…

Greg Ichneumon Brown goes deep on…

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Greg Ichneumon Brown goes deep on the Elasticsearch algorithm that powers the new (in beta) WordPress plugin directory search functionality. I like the guiding questions for testing relevancy: In improving the fidelity of search results, it’s not just a question…

Varying Vagrant Vagrants has released version…

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Varying Vagrant Vagrants has released version 2.0.0, and this official release post goes into some of the new bits. There's a new method for configuring VVV, including the ability to choose PHP 5.6, 7.0, or 7.1 for your project and…

The creator of Laravel, Taylor Otwell,…

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The creator of Laravel, Taylor Otwell, announced new ways to support Laravel using Patreon. Companies are now able to opt in to perks (assuming they pay at the right sponsorship levels) such as a priority Slack channel, "individual monthly video…

Lilyana Yakimova shares that SiteGround’s site…

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Brian Krogsgard
Lilyana Yakimova shares that SiteGround's site security scanner is now powered by Sucuri. I've long gotten SiteGround's "all clear" emails from HackAlert, but I trust Sucuri far more, so I'm happy to see the change.

If you’re a BuddyPress user, make…

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Brian Krogsgard
If you're a BuddyPress user, make sure you upgrade to the latest security release, which fixes a few cross-site request forgery (CSRF) issues. You might also want to check out the updated version of the WooCommerce BuddyPress Integration plugin from…

Brad Touesnard writes about the release…

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Brad Touesnard writes about the release of the new WP Image Processing Queue plugin, that was born during WordCamp US Contributor Day this past December. Brad hopes something like this is rolled into WordPress core, and is encouraging developers to…

If you are a Clef user,…

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If you are a Clef user, be aware that the service is shutting down. Clef will continue operating for three months with a final shutdown date of June 6, 2017. For a plugin with over a million active installs, the…

Here’s the latest stab at making…

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Here's the latest stab at making comment sections less awful. A new WordPress comment plugin from Marius Arnesen requires a reader to pass a quiz before being able to comment on an article. When the comment form only enables until…

Parrot is an integrated site builder…

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Parrot is an integrated site builder and editor concept for WordPress, and Davide Casali talks about it here. This concept started as the team thought of new approaches to how a future WordPress customization experience could have worked. I like…

Aaron Campbell talks about the difficulties…

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Aaron Campbell talks about the difficulties of security disclosures, starting with the accurate statement, "security is ever a game of balance." Disclosure is an incredibly important part of the process. As Aaron points out, "you’ll look worse if someone else…

A company called Peachpie have hacked…

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A company called Peachpie have hacked a way to get WordPress running on .NET. They stressed that it's a work in progress, and a proof of concept. It sounds terrifying.

Annotation is now a web standard.…

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Annotation is now a web standard. I found this point particularly interesting: This sends an extremely strong signal to those who have developed proprietary annotation implementations, such as Genius, Readcube, Medium or Amazon (Kindle), that these technical recommendations have the…

Jonathan Desrosiers has an interesting post…

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Jonathan Desrosiers has an interesting post on Make WordPress about the pros and cons of dropping support for older browsers for new features -- especially in context of the upcoming WordPress editor project. His words echo of the core philosophies…

Here’s an insightful interview with John…

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Here's an insightful interview with John O'Nolan on Indie Hackers about raising money and growing Ghost to $750k a year. Even if you don't use Ghost, it's a nice peak into how you can approach a business that is born…

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