Easy Digital Downloads – One Year Old
Pippin Williamson
Today, Easy Digital Downloads is one year old. Let's take a look back over the last 365 days.
Brute force attacks call for an end to the default “Admin” WordPress user
Brian Krogsgard
In the light of recent events, Morten Rand-Hendriksen suggests it's time that WordPress stopped sending the wrong signals in allowing - even encouraging - the use of the vulnerable old default username.
Advice for speaking at WordCamps
Brian Krogsgard
Chris Lema offers some great advice for getting started with speaking at WordCamps. I completely agree with his points - it's very practical advice for new (and experienced) speakers.
Three projects to scale up WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
In the coming weeks Rocket Lift will release and showcase three open-source projects to improve how WordPress scales to larger sites.
Customer support web app for WordPress theme publishers
Brian Krogsgard
We're building a new customer support solution for theme publishers so they can handle support in less time and in fewer steps. We are looking for people to try it out when the beta launches - we think it's going…
Quick Hits: WordPress and Universal Analytics
Brian Krogsgard
This post shows you a few additional metrics you can track in WordPress using Universal Analytics, the new Google Analytics.
An excercise in design of the new post format UI
Brian Krogsgard
Sara Cannon, Creative Director at Range, has put together a number of ideas for possible designs of the post format UI proposed in WordPress 3.6 beta 1. She goes through a number of options from putting the post formats in…
Optimizing WordPress Queries
Curtis McHale
Here's a good look at optimizing WordPress queries. It includes a bunch of things I wasn't aware of.
WordPress is turning 10 – let’s party everywhere
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress turns 10 on May 27th. So, in proper celebratory manor, WordPress.org is helping WordPress users to host and attend local WordPress parties everywhere. Many meetup organizers will likely coordinate in your various towns, but feel free to host your…
The Events Calendar 3.0 preview
Brian Krogsgard
The folks at Modern Tribe have been working really hard on The Events Calendar, their flagship product. Their 3.0 release is nearing completion, and they've got a preview available for you and me. It looks fantastic. I'm really excited about a lot…
WordSesh – 24hrs of free WordPress talks – this weekend
Brian Krogsgard
This weekend, you can get 24 whole hours of fresh WordPress talks by the community's finest, available by live stream, completely free! You can see coverage on Do It With WP and WooThemes.
Review an intentionally vulnerable plugin
paul de wouters
This is a really nice idea. It's a coding challenge where you have to audit a plugin for security flaws. A chance to learn more about best practices and getting your code reviewed by core developers.
Announcing the Uber Media WordPress plugin
Iain Poulson
The Uber Media WordPress plugin upgrades the new WordPress Media Manager with support for third party services such as Flickr, Instagram, 500px and Dribbble out of the box. Fully integrated with WordPress you don’t even need to leave the Media…
WordPress plugin Social Media Widget hiding spam
Brian Krogsgard
If you are using the Social Media Widget plugin (social-media-widget), make sure to remove it immediately from your website. Sucuri discovered it's being used to inject spam into websites and it has also been removed from the WordPress Plugin repository.…
Matt Mullenweg retracts Pressgram backing
Brian Krogsgard
Pressgram, an Instagram for WordPress Kickstarter app proposal, lost its primary backer today. Matt Mullenweg had backed the project with the highest $10,000 support level, and retracted it after learning the app would not be open source. John Saddington, who…
Plugin to see comments not replied to
Brian Krogsgard
Here's a plugin that really takes a single problem and solves it. Tom McFarlin, Pippin Williamson, and Andrew Norcross collaborated on a plugin to enable authors to see comments that are pending replies. I also love the way these guys…
