Cal Evans has a nice audio…
Brian Krogsgard
Cal Evans has a nice audio (although there's a video too) interview with Rachael Baker, asking questions that span a variety of topics, including the WordPress REST API (shocking!).
There’s a Stored XSS vulnerability affecting…
Brian Krogsgard
There's a Stored XSS vulnerability affecting the bbPress plugin. This bug is present on every default install of bbPress < 2.5.9, so chances are you might be effect if you have the plugin installed anywhere. Sucuri has more info on…
In case you were wondering about…
Brian Krogsgard
In case you were wondering about the state of WordPress.com ElasticSearch systems, here's some recently posted released information for you. It's pretty extensive.
Matt Geri is feeling that WordPress…
Brian Krogsgard
Matt Geri is feeling that WordPress developers aren't taken seriously enough, and he writes about why they should be taken more seriously. We already know WordPress sometimes gets a bad wrap (whether it's deserved or not is a different topic)…
Apparently target=”_blank” might lead to vunelerabilities. I’m…
Brian Krogsgard
Apparently target="_blank" might lead to vunelerabilities. I'm not sure how bad this is in reality, but I've seen this fact mentioned a few times by other developers.
Here’s a nice list of WordPress plugins…
Brian Krogsgard
Here's a nice list of WordPress plugins that could be useful for musicians, from Sally Wood.
Since 2013 they’ve [existing web browser…
Brian Krogsgard
Since 2013 they’ve [existing web browser vendors and the World Wide Web Consortium], been working with Netflix, the cable industry, and the MPAA to create a standard to limit which browsers can display W3C-standardised data. It could mean goodbye to…
LEAN is an application “ecosystem” for Angular apps powered by the WordPress REST API
Brian Krogsgard
LEAN (I hope you'll excuse me for only using Lean from now on) is a framework that integrates Angular and the WordPress REST API. They term it an "ecosystem" because it's a series of integrated projects that all work nicely…
Alley Interactive’s Matt Johnson gives us…
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Alley Interactive's Matt Johnson gives us a closer look under the hood with the new Guggenheim.org, which was recently redesigned with WordPress (did you catch that in the last Footnotes?). Some interesting tidbits: Took over two years from early phase…
Time flies! Ghost is celebrating its 3…
Brian Krogsgard
Time flies! Ghost is celebrating its 3 year anniversary. John O'Nolan reports $600,000 in annual revenue and over a million downloads, with 9 people on staff. There are quite a few things I really dig about Ghost (the level of transparency…
Templatic, a WordPress theme company, was…
Brian Krogsgard
Templatic, a WordPress theme company, was recently hacked and that hacker is holding it's customer data for ransom. This is terrifying, for both Templatic clients and for Templatic itself. Thankfully billing information wasn't stored and Templatic's customers at least so…
Here’s a list of guidelines a…
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Here's a list of guidelines a designer needs to know about accessibility from Jesse Hausler. One of the points that stuck in my mind was that you should design for a "diverse set of users" who will interact with your…
Chris Lema gives some thoughts to…
Brian Krogsgard
Chris Lema gives some thoughts to determine if that commerce project you are starting should be a WooCommerce project or an Easy Digital Downloads one.
I appreciated this post from Rob…
Brian Krogsgard
I appreciated this post from Rob Leathern on some things conference organizers should and should not do when it comes to speakers. I'm not saying I 100% agree with everything here, but any WordCamp or conference organizers might want to set aside…
David Kadavy points out that WordPress’s…
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David Kadavy points out that WordPress's publish box (and more specifically, publish button) makes it too easy to accidentally publish, and compares it to Medium's setup, which requires toggling a dropdown first. Fortunately, the WordPress publish box has a lot…
