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This is a really cool project:…

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2016

This is a really cool project: 10up has partnered with Joyent to bring WordPress to their Docker infrastructure. 10up created a Docker Compose project, housing several Docker containers which work together to create a scalable, complete WordPress stack, which includes…

Cal Evans has a nice audio…

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2016

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

May 7, 2016

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

May 7, 2016

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

May 7, 2016

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)…

Use FontAwesome? They have a CDN…

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2016

Use FontAwesome? They have a CDN now.

Apparently target=”_blank” might lead to vunelerabilities. I’m…

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2016

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

May 7, 2016

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

May 7, 2016

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

May 7, 2016

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…

Brian Krogsgard

May 2, 2016

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

May 2, 2016

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

May 2, 2016

Business

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…

Brian Krogsgard

May 2, 2016

Design

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

May 2, 2016

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

May 2, 2016

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…