WordPress Business Roundup for the Week of November 14
Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
Tom Willmot on the Challenges and Opportunities Facing Enterprise WordPress Sparked by Magne Ilsaas's ideas in The WordPress Enterprise Paradox, Tom started a Twitter thread and hosted a live discussion with Magne and others at enterprise WordPress agencies this week.…
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Naming is hard—but important
Dan Knauss
NotesPlanet
This is an important topic that came out of a Post Status Slack #security discussion involving Robert Rowley and John James Jacoby: WordPress Terminology Meta. It continued over at the WPwatercooler.
Active Install Data Story Update: Not a breach but abuse of an endpoint
Dan Knauss
NotesSecurity
At the WPwatercooler, JJJ cleared up some of the mystery... A quick summary of what we learned, starting at the
Post Status Excerpt (No. 70) — Trust and Distrust: Microaggressions, Active Install Growth Data for Plugins, and Open Source Security
Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Dan and Ny take on three issues in the WordPress community that can threaten or impair trust while also revealing how foundational trust is, especially in open source. First, they talk about Ny's…
Active Install Charts Removed from Plugin Repo
Dan Knauss
BusinessFeatures
On September 29, changesets 12097 and 12098 were committed to the Meta Trac repository for wordpress.org by Scott Reilly (Audrey Capital). These changes remove the Active Install Growth chart from the plugin repository's "Advanced" section on individual plugins. The only…
A Taxonomy of Access Control
Dan Knauss
NotesPlanet
Bruce Schneier thinks this idea from Ittay Eyal is brilliant and broadly applicable. Since I like pretty much everything Bruce says (that I can understand) I tried to get my head around this and the discussion it spawned in Post…
Open Secrets: Forced Updates in WordPress
Dan Knauss
FeaturesMake WordPress
Two weeks ago, Robert Rowley did a detailed post-mortem analysis for Patchstack of a severe vulnerability in Ninja Forms. Chloe Chamberland at Wordfence had identified and also described it in detail the day before. Both Robert, Chloe, and Sarah Gooding…
BobWP’s Woo Snippet for the Week of March 27
Bob Dunn
DesignDevelopment
What's New in WooCommerce 6.4 RC1 + Blocks and Admin Feature Plugins 🔌 This week saw some updates from core and the release of WooCommerce 6.4 RC 1. We're still headed for an April 12th final release. WooCommerce Admin (3.3.0…
John James Jacoby explains the addon…
Dan Knauss
John James Jacoby explains the addon “took almost an entire year to invent, test, and deploy… We ported the RRULE spec directly to PHP from the iCalendar RFC, because nothing existed to do what we needed.”
John James Jacoby has created a…
Dan Knauss
John James Jacoby has created a utility called Persistent Dismissible. Here's how he describes it, in his words: "How many times have you written some WordPress code to help you with storing the state of whether-or-not a logged-in user clicked…
There are some very good (and…
Dan Knauss
There are some very good (and some funny), recent Twitter threads here full of people sharing their "WordPress stories." Thanks to John James Jacoby for asking! 😄
Building Your First WordPress Plugin: Live Webinar Friday
Dan Knauss
Join WP core contributor and developer John James Jacoby for this live coding workshop on Friday, June 26, from 1-3 p.m. Central. JJJ will walk through best practices and steps for building your first WordPress plugin. JJJ is co-author of…
Professional WordPress Plugin Development: Interview with the authors
Brian Krogsgard
DevelopmentDraft
Professional WordPress Plugin Development was one of the most helpful books I've ever read. To see a new edition with two returning authors, nine years after the original, is very exciting. This edition of the book will be sure to…
New books 📚 of note: Building…
Dan Knauss
New books 📚 of note: Building Web Apps with WordPress: WordPress as an Application Framework by Brian Messenlehner and Jason Coleman is available in print and digital forms from O'Reilly. Justin Tadlock, Brad Williams, and John James Jacoby will be publishing…
bbPress 2.6.0 is out after only…
Dan Knauss
bbPress 2.6.0 is out after only six years (years?!) of development. John James Jacoby explains the reason for this timeframe was mainly because there are only far "less than part-time folks" actively working on the project. bbPress is installed on…
John James Jacoby released the initial…
Brian Krogsgard
John James Jacoby released the initial version of BerlinDB, a "collection of PHP classes and functions that aims to provide an ORM-like experience and interface to WordPress database tables." John touched on these concepts in his talk at WordCamp Europe…
