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Over, Under, Around, and Through

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Dan Knauss
This week Alex Denning (Ellipsis) draws on Iain Poulson's historical, high-level plugin data at WP Trends to offer some thoughtful, somewhat contrary, but practical and grounded perspectives on the value of Active Install Data. At the WP Watercooler and elsewhere, a realization seems to be setting in that the data is not open source and not the property of the WordPress community. Like last week's episode of Post Status Draft with Katie Keith of Barn2 Plugins, Till Krüss (Object Cache Pro, Relay) offers a lot of lessons this week about less travelled paths to success in the plugin business even as a very small company or company of one. Performance, testing, and support are key, interrelated parts of Till's success and probably the most important ones to borrow in your own life and work if they resonate.
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Eric Mann notes that “WordPress nonces…

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Dan Knauss

Eric Mann notes that "WordPress nonces are, admittedly, not numbers and not used once." Since they're not "true nonces," WordPress nonces "fall down horribly" and constitute a "fatal flaw" when developers use them to secure the admin. 🔓 Eric says…

Eric Mann recently announced a side…

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Dan Knauss

Eric Mann recently announced a side project — an "Advanced Passwords" premium plugin. As Eric explains, this project aims to better protect WordPress sites by securing passwords used for authentication and protected content.

Eric Mann announced the release of…

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Brian Krogsgard

Eric Mann announced the release of DGXPCO: Digital Guarantees for eXplicitly Permitted Core Operations plugin. This plugin (available on the WordPress plugin repo) integrates directly with the WordPress core updater and ensures that any core package being installed has a…

I stumbled on the “Tozny API”…

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Dan Knauss
I stumbled on the "Tozny API" recently which instead of passwords presents a functionality similar to "email me an access code" from Slack. The purpose of which is to help either verify email addresses or promote password-free authentication for your…

Redis object cache for WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress has long had a Memcached backend available for object caching. Over the past several weeks, Eric Mann and Erick Hitter have built out a Redis-based alternative for object caching. Updated Source: https://ethitter.com/2014/04/redis-object-cache-plugin-available-for-download/
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