WordPress News

Riad Benguella recently announced on the…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Riad Benguella recently announced on the WordPress.com developer blog the launch of the Open Source WordPress API console. This is an application that allows you to make read and write requests to the WordPress.com API or the WordPress REST API…

After the recent discovery of REST…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

After the recent discovery of REST API vulnerabilities in WordPress 4.7.1 and 4.7 Mika Epstein wrote an impactful post recently entitled "A Case for REST API". I really like this calm approach to the subject - I highly recommend you…

There is a call for testing…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

There is a call for testing for the WordPress mobile app (7.0 beta) for iOS. Some nice enhancements here: navigation arrows for notifications, adding and editing post excerpts directly from the app (a big one), better RTL support, and few…

Josh Wulf writes how software developers…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Josh Wulf writes how software developers are hired is going to change radically in the next year or two, mainly because of Github and open source. Josh points out that benefits and consequences of working "in the open" means that…

I stumbled on the “Tozny API”…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Security

I stumbled on the "Tozny API" recently which instead of passwords presents a functionality similar to "email me an access code" from Slack. The purpose of which is to help either verify email addresses or promote password-free authentication for your…

Shawn Hooper has nice post on…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Shawn Hooper has nice post on submitting all form fields via AJAX to a REST endpoint.

BuddyPress 2.8.0 (“San Matteo”) has recently…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Security

BuddyPress 2.8.0 ("San Matteo") has recently been completed and it includes some nice security tweaks and improvements: more helpful “Activate Pending Accounts” screen, better compatibility with the Twenty Seventeen theme, more hooks for Messages, accessibility upgrades, and more. Looks like…

Something interesting on the Yoast Github…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Something interesting on the Yoast Github account: Whip, which is a WordPress package that "nudges users" to upgrade their software versions (starting with PHP). It supports all major PHP versions from 5.2 to 7.1. If you have a particular plugin…

Nice to see guest checkout is…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Nice to see guest checkout is now available on the Envato Market checkout. Worth noting that if an email is already associated with an Envato account it can not be used to checkout as a guest. But some support is…

Chrome will soon systematically roll out…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Chrome will soon systematically roll out HTML5 by Default in the coming weeks. This primarily effects Flash and browser not auto-loading it (which is great) but since Chrome is used by half of all browsing the internet it's worth reading…

cachingexplained.com is a nice and simple…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

cachingexplained.com is a nice and simple one-page site explains how caching works on websites. I enjoyed the non-coding, plain language approach. This might help you explain caching to clients or your local meetup group.

Paul Gibbs announces WordHat, which is…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Paul Gibbs announces WordHat, which is an integration layer between Behat, Mink, and WordPress. It provides WordPress-specific functionality for "common testing scenarios specific" to WordPress sites. It seems to be THE go-to solution for developers wanting to run browser testing…

Many WordPress developers either use or…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Many WordPress developers either use or have clients that use WP Engine... and I recently noticed that Carrie Dils has published a guide to working with WP Engine staging. This is a concise tutorial on using some of WP Engine's…

Love the style of the MailChimp’s…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Love the style of the MailChimp's 2016 Annual report. Also 246,148,661,219 emails sent in a year is definitely an impressive number. Speaking of annual reports, I enjoyed reading SkyVerge's 2016 Year In Review. The majority of SkyVerge's work is with…

As many developers are aware, new…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

As many developers are aware, new resources on learning about React or JavaScript - paid or free - are being created daily. Example: "30 Days of React" is a free 280 PDF by Ari Lerner that delivers lessons "in 30…

Eric Elliott, author of “Programming JavaScript…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Eric Elliott, author of "Programming JavaScript Applications" (O’Reilly), has composed a "list post" of JavaScript fundamentals, tools, and frameworks (both current and what to watch). There's no way you can reasonably learn everything listed, but it's likely a good birds-eye…