It's near the weekend and there are many good reads out there, so this edition of Footnotes is a bit loaded:

Andy Biou wrote a pretty terrifying account of how his website got hacked, and how he should've been able to avoid it. It's a WordPress website, but he shares how the hacker, "Ivan", was able to do it (and it…

This is a handy little snippet that creates a nag for plugin users using a non-English language to help support your plugin. This is cool, but dangerous: don't go too crazy, please.

Morten Rand-Hendriksen says WordPress can and should throw its weight around more often, like was recently done with the Responsive Images project. I'm not sure supporting a pretty universally accepted spec is exactly throwing our weight around, but it's a…

Congratulations to Julie Kuehl on achieving her goal from a crowdfunding campaign in the spring: she got a job doing WordPress stuff! She declares, "Mission accomplished."

Pantheon surveyed a small pool of agencies, and is ready to declare that WordPress is moving upmarket. Some of the numbers I found interesting: 60% of those surveyed say their WordPress budgets have increased over the past year. 8% even…

Patrick Garman used a couple of filters to prevent WordPress from doing expensive counting queries, and reduced some admin page loads from around 8 seconds to 1 second.

My friends at The Theme Foundry say over 400,000 people are using their popular page building theme, and they've just redesigned the Make page. Here's their blog post about it, and they also talk about the future of the theme.

One of my good friends over at Modern Tribe shared a new page on Stanford's website that they just finished, and I thought it'd make for a fun Friday Feature. It's called Then and Now.