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Brady Vercher shared a tweet with…

December 11, 2015

Brady Vercher shared a tweet with a link to an API endpoint for their theme company, Audio Theme, saying they're already using the WordPress 4.4 API infrastructure to, "deliver package updates to our customers." I want to know more about…

Matías Ventura shares what it was…

December 11, 2015

Matías Ventura shares what it was liking working on Calypso for 18+ months.

WP Shout introduces you to using…

December 11, 2015

WP Shout introduces you to using async and deferred JavaScript in their latest tutorial.

Aaron Hockley shares his story about…

December 11, 2015

Aaron Hockley shares his story about what it's like attending big conferences as an introvert.

Kevin Stover, of WP Ninjas, shares…

December 11, 2015

Kevin Stover, of WP Ninjas, shares his thought processes for choosing a JavaScript framework for use in WordPress. Btw, their upcoming Ninja Forms 3.0 is all JS based.

Okay, I have to stop some…

December 11, 2015

Okay, I have to stop some time! Have a great weekend, y'all.

Flexbox polyfill for IE8 and IE9

Brian Krogsgard

December 11, 2015

Today, 10up has made public a polyfill I knew they were working on, and was begging for: Flexibility. Flexibility provides IE8 and IE9 Flexbox compatibility. For those of you (like me) that still like to support IE9 -- and the…

NextGEN maker getting into hosted solutions with Imagely

Brian Krogsgard

December 11, 2015

At WordCamp US, I spoke with Scott Wyden Kivowitz -- the Community Wrangler for Imagely, the company behind NextGEN gallery -- about their plans to created a hosted web service for photographers. https://soundcloud.com/brian-krogsgard/scott-wyden-kivowitz-from-imagely/s-8EfHy Listen on SoundCloud Imagely is the new…

WordFence — a security plugin to…

December 10, 2015

Security

WordFence -- a security plugin to boot -- has an XSS vulnerability that was recently patched. VaultPress posted more about it, but if you run this plugin, you need to update.

WordCamp US videos are already getting…

December 10, 2015

WordCamp US videos are already getting posted online! I have already watched two of those I missed in person that are outstanding: Aaron Jorbin and Zack Tollman talked about the technologies of tomorrow, and I guarantee you will learn new…

Brad Touesnard did an excellent job…

December 10, 2015

Brad Touesnard did an excellent job describing one set of technologies from Zack and Aaron's talk: HTTP/2 and LetsEncrypt. It's ridiculously exciting to think that WordPress can play a role and issuing free certificates, and I'm really pumped that performing such…

Mark Gavalda, of Kinsta Hosting, did…

December 10, 2015

Mark Gavalda, of Kinsta Hosting, did some new benchmarks on HHVM and PHP7, and says that HHVM still comes out on top. The results surprised me a bit, but PHP7 is nonetheless an amazing performance improvement.

With all these whitelisted ad…

December 10, 2015

With all these whitelisted ad and analytics services for Google's open source AMP project, I'm starting to not understand the point of this entirely new syntax. Aren't we just inviting the same problems?

There are a ton of excellent…

December 10, 2015

There are a ton of excellent pictures from WCUS popping up, but start with these from Tammie Lister and these from Kari Leigh Marruchi (Kari has a lot more on the way).

WP Engine requiring mass password reset on all accounts

Brian Krogsgard

December 10, 2015

Security

WP Engine sent emails to all existing (and apparently many former) customers stating that they needed to reset every password associated with their account: While we have no evidence that the information was used inappropriately, as a precaution, we…

Codeable outsourcing service paid out $1 million over 90 day period

Brian Krogsgard

December 10, 2015

In their latest contractor newsletter, the Codeable team shared that they paid out over a million dollars in the previous 90 day period, which is a record for the outsourcing service that matches up clients seeking contractors. Contractors on Codeable…