I’m really pleased to see that…
I'm really pleased to see that the Kim Parsell memorial scholarship for WordCamp US has been awarded. Congratulations to Anyssa Ferreira, who seems like a great member of the Brazilian WordPress community.
Sucuri has a really in-depth walkthrough…
Sucuri has a really in-depth walkthrough of the Akismet XSS vulnerability they discovered, and it's a nasty 9/10 on their DREAD score. That basically means it's easy to do, and can result in a very bad outcome. Fortunately, auto-updates and…
Use WP-CLI? Take the very short…
Use WP-CLI? Take the very short survey that will be used to make it better.
I often get good reads from…
I often get good reads from Web Operations Weekly, a pretty nerdy dev newsletter. Two I enjoyed today are this one from a guy that's pretty upset about how much oAuth sucks (and is called for a universal web ID...),…
Andrew Ozz made some clarifications regarding…
Andrew Ozz made some clarifications regarding the shortcode roadmap today.
The thing a few weeks ago…
The thing a few weeks ago where WP Updates went down, turned out after being sold to an anonymous buyer, is really quite irksome. I covered it then. I see where Dev7Studios was coming from, just trying to sell a…
Two AMAs to make you smarter
Brian Krogsgard
Two AMAs happened today with people I respect a lot, in different walks of life. AMA with Pippin Williamson Pippin Williamson, you all know, makes plugins. He did a great AMA on ManageWP. I'm going to steal some nuggets: On…
Timothy Jacobs, of Iron Bound Designs,…
Timothy Jacobs, of Iron Bound Designs, has created a third party iThemes Exchange plugin to enable group membership buying, and calls it Umbrella Memberships. This is a great, great feature (that I'm confident is coming to WooCommerce), but if you're…
Wirecast is a live streaming toolkit…
Wirecast is a live streaming toolkit that absolutely blew my mind when I saw it and the features included for the first time today. If you're looking to live stream a conference or event, this software looks amazing, and is apparently…
In the REST API podcast, Joe…
In the REST API podcast, Joe and I talked about Drupal's upcoming support of GraphQL with their API, and how it's so new. It is new, and it's getting a lot of attention. Here's a site to learn about it.
Pippin Williamson has completed his Custom…
Pippin Williamson has completed his Custom Database API series with part 3 on creating tables. Definitely finish out this series, and read the first two if you haven't already. It's super informative.
The latest Week In Core post…
The latest Week In Core post does a great job, again, highlighting core activity; and it also has a WordPress 4.4 oEmbed post in live action for you to observe!
You’ve probably wanted to convert Markdown…
You've probably wanted to convert Markdown to HTML before. This site lets you convert HTML to Markdown.
It’s not really something you think…
It's not really something you think about too much, but the word template means many different things in WordPress and web building generally. WP Shout has it covered.
Envira Gallery is quietly gaining in…
Envira Gallery is quietly gaining in the image/gallery space. The latest update includes a suite of extensions that will make photographers and people building sites for photographers pretty happy.
Why you shouldn’t moonlight long term
Brian Krogsgard
Andy Adams is dead on, again. Being a good, mentally-engaged employee is tiring. Assuming your moonlighting work is in the same field as your day job, you’ll have already drained your mental “muscles” during the day. At first, you’ll be…
