WordPress News

Upgrade your caching plugins: Vulnerabilities in W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

Tony Perez, of Sucuri, has provided a summary, with explanation for the less security fluent of us, of a vulnerability in both W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache. Definitely update right away.

Auto Hosted allows for easy auto updates for self hosted themes and plugins

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

WordPress News

David Chandra has released a solution for providing automatic theme and plugin updates for self hosted WordPress products, called Auto Hosted. It looks quite nice. I love that David's documentation for his product is open to the public. I'm very interested in…

What theme authors need to know about the new post format UI

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

WordPress News

Jason Bobich has written a very nice article for wpTuts+ about various new functions and post format changes included in WordPress 3.6 betas. While the post format UI is on the hot seat for 3.6 and may or may not…

ZippyKid partners with Google PageSpeed

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

Hosting

ZippyKid has partnered with Google PageSpeed to "automatically apply web performance best practices" to their WordPress sites. The test cases look pretty promising.

Tammie Lister to write BuddyPress theme development book

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

WordPress News

Tammie Lister has made a deal with Packt Publishing to write a book about BuddyPress theme development. She plans for the book to be a relatively short, 100 pages, with lots of resources for developers that wanted to get started…

The new WordPress Download Monitor plugin

mikejolley

April 23, 2013

WordPress News

Announcement post + plans for the (beta) Download Monitor plugin which is being rebuilt.

Check your security settings: Brute force attacks against WordPress and Joomla sites have tripled

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

SecurityWordPress News

Hosting providers around the world are seeing a massive increase in brute force attacks against WordPress and Joomla sites. Attackers are looking to gain access to and compromise accounts, but failing that, they are slowing down their targets or even…

Choosing a WordPress Theme and Why You’re Doing It Wrong

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

Design

Focusing on graphics alone is the main mistake people make when selecting a theme. To help you out, here’s a better approach.

Pro version of WP Migrate DB released

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2013

WordPress News

The free WP Migrate DB allows you to export your database, does a find and replace on URLs and file paths (handles serialized data), then allows you to save it to your computer. The pro version includes these features and…

Handling recurring content in WordPress theme development

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2013

Development

Recurring content is present in just about all WordPress themes, and handling it properly is important to keep themes lean, extensible and scalable. So what’s the right approach for handling recurring content in different situations?

Big update to WordPress for Android

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2013

WordPress News

Android owners will be happy to know that WordPress for Android has received a big update. Personally, 've grown to really like using WordPress with my phone.

Are You An Open Source Pragmatist, Really?

Curtis McHale

April 16, 2013

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

Next time the WordPress Community starts a discussion over GPL, lets try and understand the starting point of the ideas on the other side.

Launching a product at a WordCamp

Brian Krogsgard

April 16, 2013

Business

In this post about the launch of FooPlugins, Adam Warner does a great job chronicling his experience with Brad Vincent of launching a product at WordCamp. It's a great read, with very nice advice for others that may be trying…

A summary of recent WordPress security attacks

Brian Krogsgard

April 16, 2013

SecurityWordPress News

Chris Jean, of iThemes, has done a nice job summarizing the recent flood of WordPress brute force login attacks, along with ways to prevent them. There is also a Codex page on handling brute force attacks that's getting a lot…