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Working with images on Jetpack related posts

Brian Krogsgard

June 4, 2015

Jetpack's related posts module is very good at matching, using ElasticSearch and WordPress.com's servers. It's one of the more compelling features of Jetpack. But I've never been a big fan because when the post doesn't have an image, the resulting…

WordPress.com Stats get Github-ish improvement

Brian Krogsgard

June 2, 2015

WordPress.com Stats now has an "Insights" tab that's quite Github-ish. The tab shows a graph of post activity (though only of posts it seems, and not CPTs), most popular posting day, and most popular posting hour for a particular site.…

Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2015

BusinessHosting

Matt Mullenweg announced today that Automattic has acquired WooThemes, whose flagship product is the popular eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce. All 55 team members at WooThemes will join Automattic, swelling ranks at Automattic by around 18%.

Sync adds customer maintenance reports to their site management tool

Brian Krogsgard

April 29, 2015

Business

iThemes Sync has a decent amount of competition between ManageWP, Jetpack Manage, and others that offer site management services that allow you to manage and update themes, plugins, and WordPress core. But they've recently come out with a feature that…

Postmatic begins rollout of commercial version at $9 per month

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2015

Business

Late last year I wrote about Postmatic, a plugin that aims to improve your WordPress email and commenting experience. The plugin allows for comment management directly from your email, as well as handles post and comment subscriptions for your blog. The…

Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

April 20, 2015

PlanetSecurity

A coordinated plugin update occurred this morning between many popular WordPress plugins to address a common security vulnerability that allows for XSS cross-site scripting attacks.

Sync local and remote images

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2015

Mark Jaquith has a handy snippet for syncing Photon images between a local install that doesn't have a copy of the uploads folder and the remote, Jetpack enabled site. What if the site you're working on has like, 30GB of…

Inside Jetpack

Brian Krogsgard

April 13, 2015

Hosting

Sarah Gooding has an interesting long form piece that goes inside Jetpack's multiple team setup at Automattic, and how they think about development and the structure of the plugin. I found the bit about installs... odd. Automattic is aware of…

WordPress News with Beka Rice

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2015

DraftPlanet

Beka Rice and I cover the week in WordPress news with a short format (~15 minute) podcast. This week we talk about Mesh (an upcoming app by Automattic), 4.3 and 4.4 release leads, April Fools', and Array's year in review.

WordPress to be bundled in Jetpack with mission to power 50% of the web

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2015

WordPress News

WordPress co-founder and Jetpack enthusiast Matt Mullenweg has announced that WordPress is to be bundled in future versions of Jetpack as a module, to fulfill Matt's mission to power 50% of the web.

A few follow-ups on recent news

Brian Krogsgard

March 19, 2015

There are a few items from the last few days I'd like to follow up on, so figured I'd just lump them in here together. First off, Jetpack had a bit of a rocky update to 3.4. Version 3.4.1 came…

Jetpack brings BruteProtect features under its umbrella

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2015

After Automattic's acquisition of BruteProtect last fall, it is unsurprising that today they bring some BruteProtect features under the Jetpack umbrella. The new features include brute force login attempt protection, as well as a website scanner to check for malicious…

Yoast SEO vulnerability, disclosure, and forced upgrade

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2015

Security

Yoast released a new version of the WordPress SEO plugin in the last 24 hours, which fixes a blind SQL injection vulnerability. According to a post mortem by Joost de Valk, the bug wasn't caught in security audits, but was…

The most popular WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2015

BusinessPlanet

WordPress plugin popularity has always been pretty tough to figure out. We only had download counts or independent, third party website scrapers to tell us anything. Now, WordPress.org itself has more data that's being tested and launched to give us real insight into the popularity of WordPress plugins.

Envato’s role in the “big theme” market

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2015

In a provocative article on WP Tavern titled "Envato Continues to Rake in the Cash from WordPress Themes Packaged as Complete Website Solutions", Sarah Gooding slams Envato for their role in what I'll call the "big theme" market. Envato theme authors…

Twitter introduces an official plugin for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

Twitter has finally announced an official WordPress plugin. It's pretty thorough, and on a quick test run, works as advertised. Here's a rundown of some of the features and background.

Working with images on Jetpack related posts

WordPress.com Stats get Github-ish improvement

Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce

Sync adds customer maintenance reports to their site management tool

Postmatic begins rollout of commercial version at $9 per month

Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins

Sync local and remote images

Inside Jetpack

WordPress News with Beka Rice

WordPress to be bundled in Jetpack with mission to power 50% of the web

A few follow-ups on recent news

Jetpack brings BruteProtect features under its umbrella

Yoast SEO vulnerability, disclosure, and forced upgrade

The most popular WordPress plugins

Envato’s role in the “big theme” market

Twitter introduces an official plugin for WordPress

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