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Well, this is a bit scary.…

February 12, 2016

Well, this is a bit scary. Freek Van der Herten shares how Digital Ocean deleted his entire server. Wham, gone. Amazingly, his advice isn't to not use Digital Ocean, but just to know the risks of the cheap VPS provider,…

WordFence is spreading the word about…

February 12, 2016

Security

WordFence is spreading the word about three different plugins with security vulnerabilities they've found exploited in the wild. WooCommerce Store Toolkit (not publicly available, patched, but will need updating) WordPress User Meta Manager (on .org, blind SQL injection vulnerability) WP…

Jami Gibbs is selling Rescue Themes,…

February 12, 2016

Jami Gibbs is selling Rescue Themes, and it'd be a pretty good pickup for the right buyer. I especially like the political theme niche, and Jami knows themes. If you're interested, she has a contact method on the blog post.…

This is a good resource for…

February 12, 2016

This is a good resource for dealing with cross browser Flexbox quirks (hat tip Jonathan Christopher).

Matt Geri has a straightforward tutorial…

February 12, 2016

Matt Geri has a straightforward tutorial on enabling the "add media" modal in your plugin or theme.

10up has released a thorough article…

February 12, 2016

10up has released a thorough article on Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project, and what it means for publishers. Nice resource to have on hand.

Yoast SEO 3.1 has a release…

February 12, 2016

Yoast SEO 3.1 has a release candidate out, and they are taking a lot of the feedback they got in 3.0 into consideration. The biggest changes are a rollback on the snippet preview (though it's still more than it was…

Bluehost open sources the script for updating WordPress sites

Brian Krogsgard

February 12, 2016

Bluehost wrote a script to automatically update and then do a health check on more than two million websites. They were able to make the changes with minimal customer service complaints, in effect drastically improving the health of the websites…

A few (surprisingly good) things I have recently learned about PayPal

Brian Krogsgard

February 11, 2016

Business

PayPal is one of those companies people love to hate. I know I do. But sometimes, PayPal shows how good it can be. And in some ways -- please don't hate me for saying this -- PayPal has some WordPress-y-ness…

Okay, nothing in these footnotes has…

February 9, 2016

Okay, nothing in these footnotes has anything to do with the REST API!

Shawn Hooper wrote a handy plugin…

February 9, 2016

Shawn Hooper wrote a handy plugin that scans your database for orphan tables and deletes them from WordPress multisite environments.

iThemes has released BackupBuddy 7.0, that…

February 9, 2016

iThemes has released BackupBuddy 7.0, that includes the Stash Live feature I covered recently, to enable automatic incremental updates of your WordPress install, and makes them more directly competitive with VaultPress.

A Canadian court has issued an opinion…

February 9, 2016

Design

A Canadian court has issued an opinion with a vomit inducing description of open source. A problem Chenier saw was that 21st Capital used "open source code" and made changes, sometimes on a weekly basis, to its program code without testing…

Apparently some WordPress recipe plugins that…

February 9, 2016

Apparently some WordPress recipe plugins that provide rich snippets are causing some sites to get hit with algorithmic SEO penalties. This is far from my area of expertise, but worth looking into if you're working with a lot of food…

Six reasons why WordPress is…

February 9, 2016

Six reasons why WordPress is ready for the enterprise, from Pantheon, and they interviewed a lot of smart Post Status members for this piece.

WPDocker’s aim is SaaSified WordPress deployment via…

February 9, 2016

WPDocker's aim is SaaSified WordPress deployment via Docker, from former CyberChimps (maintainer of the popular Responsive theme) owner Trent Lapinski. Trent says the future of WordPress is containers, which is a reasonable position for someone with a service for providing Docker…