WordPress News

Joe Hoyle introduces us to the…

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2016

Joe Hoyle introduces us to the new Authentication Broker for the WP REST API which might be a good approach on how to support OAuth without a single, central authority. We also talked about this some on the latest podcast.

Aaron Jorbin has a “half-baked” idea…

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2016

Aaron Jorbin has a "half-baked" idea about having hosts help more with automated testing for WordPress. I think he's on to something.

Sucuri has prepared and released it’s…

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2016

Sucuri has prepared and released it's first Website Hacked Report for the first quarter of 2016 (direct link to PDF here). Lots of interesting data points in the analysis of over 11,000 infected websites. This is one of the ones…

A massive upgrade to the WordPress…

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2016

A massive upgrade to the WordPress support forums is coming. Here's a peak into the gameplan and the work that is going to be needed.

100% green WordPress hosting: Someone built…

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2016

100% green WordPress hosting: Someone built a fully solar powered Raspberry Pi2 web server that runs 24/7 with "0 downtime out in the wild." It was running Nginx + Php5-FPM and it even served as a diary of the project…

Plugin repo redesign prototypes

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2016

The first prototypes for the redesigned plugin repo for WordPress.org have been released. I think it's pretty neat that they are on CodePen, as it makes for an environment where more people can engage with their ideas for adjusting the…

The steady move upmarket in WordPress hosting

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2016

Hosting

Media Temple is the latest company to offer an "enterprise" level WordPress hosting option. Their new offering is based on Amazon Web Services and starts at $2,500 per month. From TechCrunch: The standard enterprise plan costs $2,500 per month comes…

WordPress as a Headless CMS — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

May 18, 2016

DraftPlanet

Joe and Brian discuss WordPress as a Headless CMS, what that means, things to consider using WordPress as a Headless CMS, and more.

Github has changed pricing, and the…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2016

Github has changed pricing, and the reaction has been intense and (in WordPress circles) mostly negative. They are now offering unlimited private repositories, but changing the pricing structure so that organizations pay per user rather than by tiers based on repository count.…

Mika Epstein talks about her recent…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2016

Mika Epstein talks about her recent discovery that using SVGs can actually result in slower page speeds than PNGs once you hit a certain number on one page load.

If you use MAMP or MAMP…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2016

If you use MAMP or MAMP Pro, you might appreciate a detailed look into how you can get WP-CLI installed and working with it from Tom McFarlin.

Here’s an insightful post on the Pressjitsu…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2016

Here's an insightful post on the Pressjitsu blog on why it might be a good idea for you to trigger WP-Cron exclusively via a CLI process. (It might be better yet to skip WP-Cron).

There’s a interesting proposal on the…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2016

There's a interesting proposal on the table for style modules in BuddyPress. I certainly hope it takes off, since I think this will lead to more people having access to more customization ability in their BuddyPress sites.

If you use PHPStorm (or know…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2016

Security

If you use PHPStorm (or know someone that does) make sure you read this about a security concern in older versions.

If you use WordPress in higher…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2016

If you use WordPress in higher education, WPCampus is looking for some feedback via a brief survey. All participants will receive full access to an anonymized version of the data.

Here’s yet another good HeroPress story,…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2016

Here's yet another good HeroPress story, this time about Puneet Sahalot and his story about building a WordPress agency in his hometown of Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.