WCEU 2019 in Review
David Bisset
WordCamp Europe 2019 hosted a record 3,200+ people, according to ticket sales. WCEU started with a contributor day on Thursday, June 20, followed by the two main conference days on Friday and Saturday.
An interview with PublishPress founder Steve Burge
Dan Knauss
PublishPress recently announced the acquisition of Daniel Bachhuber's Bylines plugin for PublishPress. I got in touch with Steve to catch up with him and his unique take on the WordPress economy.
Consequences of bumping PHP minimums, from a Joomla lead that’s been there
Brian Krogsgard
There's a mega Trac ticket to, "strategize the updating of minimum PHP version." Joe and I talked about this on the latest podcast too (in the last segment), if you're curious. The Trac ticket goes every which way, as you'd expect.…
OptinMonster goes SaaS in effort to cater for more hosting environments and non-WordPress platforms
Brian Krogsgard
OptinMonster has changed the very core of their product today, and it is now a standalone SaaS (software as a service) product, versus a plugin that runs on users' servers.
I peaked across the fence at hosted Joomla, then ran home
Brian Krogsgard
Joomla.com launched as a hosted version of the Joomla! CMS. I was interested because my host (SiteGround) had blogged about how they built the hosting platform for the new Joomla.com site. The tech is neat, as is the fact that…
Fear mongering journalist pointlessly blasts WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
I encountered an article today that made my blood boil. Phillip Thomson wrote about the cost of three websites for the Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Sydney Morning Herald. The article blasts Julie Bishop and her department for…
Check your security settings: Brute force attacks against WordPress and Joomla sites have tripled
Brian Krogsgard
Hosting providers around the world are seeing a massive increase in brute force attacks against WordPress and Joomla sites. Attackers are looking to gain access to and compromise accounts, but failing that, they are slowing down their targets or even…
Joomla vs WordPress (or why most infographics stink)
Brian Krogsgard
I just have a hard time getting behind an infographic. They tend to be so absolute and incomplete. I'm not trying to knock on the people that probably worked pretty hard on this infographic of a comparison between WordPress and…
