Shifting the WordPress Mindset
A look back at how far WordPress has come since version 0.71-gold, how WordPress development has evolved, and where we should be heading.
A look back at how far WordPress has come since version 0.71-gold, how WordPress development has evolved, and where we should be heading.
WordPress trunk experimented with new, flatter menu icons for a few weeks. After great debate, these have been reverted for the 3.6 release. However, the feature was ported to a plugin and added to the repository, which is going to act as a playground for these changes in a future release.
Mike McAlister has been an active memberΒ of the commercial WordPress theme spaceΒ since 2009. He started by selling themes on ThemeForest. He transitioned to the Okay Themes brand in December of 2011.Β And at the end of March of this year, Mike transitioned yet again to Array. While these transitions may seem like arbitrary branding, to me…
This is a surprising move. WordPress.com has partnered with a company called ShopLocket to enable eCommerce for WordPress.com customers. Anyone ever heard of or used ShopLocket? Seems like a pretty direct response to Squarespace’s eCommerce offering to me.
If you’re using the popular File Manager plugin (700k+ installations), be sure it’s upgraded to the latest version. A recently discovered vulnerability allows “unauthenticated users to execute commands and upload malicious files on a target site.” π― A patch was released this morning on September 1, 2020. Some WordPress managed hosting companies are scanning sites…
Time to test! It’s great to see a beta out. I’m excited to check out the post format work that’s gone into this release, amongst other things.
Itβs true, ChatGPT did not write this update, but I HAVE been playing around with it, and I can see the appeal, at least in part.