WordPress 6.0.2 Security and Maintenance Release: WordPress.org’s Bug Bounty Program at Work
Ram Dall over at Wordfence has a good breakdown of three vulnerabilities patched in the WordPress 6.0.2 Security and Maintenance Release.
John Blackbourn released Query Monitor 3.7…
John Blackbourn released Query Monitor 3.7 which includes features related to viewing information about debugging and the performance of REST API requests. ✨
In case you need them, John…
In case you need them, John Blackbourn has put together JSON schemas for WordPress core PHP objects and REST API responses. 👨💻
When John Blackbourn made a semi-tongue-in-cheek…
When John Blackbourn made a semi-tongue-in-cheek suggestion for a plugin that will email you regularly about draft posts you haven’t published, David Artiss took him seriously and built a plugin that does exactly that. Draft Concluder (what a great name!) will send an email to every user who has outstanding drafts. 📝✉️ David says his…
John Blackbourn updated his documentation for wp_mail()…
John Blackbourn updated his documentation for wp_mail() usage on Github. It now includes emails for personal data requests (4.9.6+) and the fatal error handling coming in 5.2.
The User Switching plugin from John…
The User Switching plugin from John Blackbourn is ten years old now, with an active user base of 100,000 sites. John shares some thoughts about what has changed with the plugin over the years. 👥 John says the plugin is “about as close to complete as I’ll ever get with any piece of code,” although he still…
John Blackbourn gave an excellent lightning…
John Blackbourn gave an excellent lightning talk on Git Bisect. (His slides are here.) Trust me — if you work with Git at all as a developer, the things John has to show you will blow your mind. John also recently released a new version of the Query Monitor plugin that includes a new panel…
John Blackbourn has authored a plugin…
John Blackbourn has authored a plugin for WordPress Multisite that shares a central media library across all the sites on a Multisite network.
John Blackbourn has started a “low…
John Blackbourn has started a “low volume” newsletter for those interested in tips and tricks for WP-CLI users.
John Blackbourn highlights a few email-related…
John Blackbourn highlights a few email-related security improvements going into WordPress 4.9, including a change of email confirmation process.
John Blackbourn shared a WordPress 4.9…
John Blackbourn shared a WordPress 4.9 feature on Twitter that I’m excited about: the ability to draft and schedule changes made in the customizer. For site changes and launches, this is a really awesome feature. It works pretty much the same as scheduling a post, but for customization settings. The Trac ticket is a great…
John Blackbourn has documented all the…
John Blackbourn has documented all the situations where WordPress sends an email, along with how to filter or disable each email. Bless him. I hate WordPress default emails. It’s a SaaS opportunity if I ever saw one.
Twenty Seventeen is 🔥
I have not been stunned — in a positive way — about a default WordPress theme design preview since Twenty Twelve. I haven’t had a major beef with any of the other default themes, but I haven’t been really wowed. Twenty Ten was a huge step because it was the first of the series and a break…
WordCamp Europe takeaways
After a whirlwind WordCamp Europe, I’ve had some time to sit back and consider some of the common conversational threads. When a big group of people gets together in the WordPress space, you can start to identify what folks are concerned, excited, or otherwise feeling, from the conversations that sprout up. There was definitely an…
John Blackbourn has a handy trick…
John Blackbourn has a handy trick for getting a headstart generating changelogs, using your git commit messages.
Weekend edition
Friday was a bit slow so I figured I’d wait for a weekend edition. We’re going to pack it all into one Note. Jetpack had two vulnerabilities: one in the contact form (technically explained by Sucuri) and one limited to specific hosting configurations. They also showed off their new plugin browser I mentioned last week….
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