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Sucuri has a really in-depth walkthrough…

October 14, 2015

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…

October 14, 2015

Use WP-CLI? Take the very short survey that will be used to make it better.

I often get good reads from…

October 14, 2015

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…

October 14, 2015

Andrew Ozz made some clarifications regarding the shortcode roadmap today.

The thing a few weeks ago…

October 14, 2015

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

October 14, 2015

Business

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,…

October 14, 2015

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…

October 14, 2015

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…

October 14, 2015

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…

October 14, 2015

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…

October 14, 2015

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…

October 14, 2015

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…

October 14, 2015

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…

October 14, 2015

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

October 13, 2015

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…

Akismet getting auto-updated for critical XSS bug

Brian Krogsgard

October 13, 2015

Akismet has a critical XSS bug that dates back quite some time. A researcher from Sucuri notified us of an XSS vulnerability in the Akismet WordPress plugin. This bug affects all versions of the Akismet WordPress plugin since 2.5.0, but…