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Several proposals that appeared on Make…

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Several proposals that appeared on Make WordPress over the past week have started some good discussions: Ian Dunn proposed a policy of support for the last six versions of WordPress with auto-updates that bring unsupported sites to the oldest supported…

More WCEU Recaps Here’s an excellent…

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More WCEU Recaps Here's an excellent WordCamp Europe contribution day recap from the Make WordPress Design team. I appreciate seeing how the discussion about Gutenberg and interaction resulted in designers opening issues in Github. Codeable had a nice recap as…

There is now a dedicated post…

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Brian Krogsgard

There is now a dedicated post on Make WordPress written by Mel Choyce about Gutenberg Phase 2, which shows off some screenshots and provides additional details from Matt's State of the Word on Saturday. Gutenberg Phase 2 will be outside post_content,…

The Make WordPress Marketing Team published…

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The Make WordPress Marketing Team published a case study of the redesign of Rolling Stone magazine's website and its migration to WordPress. Handled by WordPress-focused engineering firm XWP and hosted by WordPress VIP, it's interesting to read about the unique…

If you’re looking for a quick…

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If you're looking for a quick roundup of what's happening in various WordPress teams, Josepha Haden has compiled a summary in the Make WordPress quarterly team report -- a report I like very much.

Omar Reiss been working on a…

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Omar Reiss been working on a patch to make WordPress fit with modern modular JavaScript programming practices, and he writes more in depth about this on the Make WordPress Blog. Omar shows off an overview of the directory structure that comes…

As we move forward in 2018…

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As we move forward in 2018 with Gutenberg's release looming closer, more is being written about its possible impact, the currently foreseen problems it may solve, the potential problems it will create, and so on. Here are a few recent…

Matt Mullenweg wrote an update on…

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Matt Mullenweg wrote an update on Make WordPress regarding core focus areas. He says writing and customization are coming along but regarding the REST API, notes, "There has been little to no perceivable progress on having any parts of wp-admin…

Jonathan Desrosiers has an interesting post…

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Jonathan Desrosiers has an interesting post on Make WordPress about the pros and cons of dropping support for older browsers for new features -- especially in context of the upcoming WordPress editor project. His words echo of the core philosophies…

WP CLI is now under the WordPress umbrella

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WP CLI is moving under the umbrella of WordPress.org. Matt Mullenweg made the announcement, and in it says he's also, "bringing together a number of companies in the WordPress ecosystem to solidify their financial support of runcommand so that Daniel…

Make WordPress Hosting is the newest…

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Make WordPress Hosting is the newest Make WordPress sub site. Mike Schroder writes that the purpose of the site is so, "individuals with hosting experience can collaborate on best practices and tools for the WordPress community’s benefit." The site is…

There’s a reworking of action and…

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There's a reworking of action and filter iterations coming to WordPress 4.7 and Gary Pendergast covers them in this update on the Make WordPress Core site. If you have been using actions and filters "the WordPress way," then you shouldn't…

Congrats to everyone on the WordPress…

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Congrats to everyone on the WordPress plugin team for their hard work updating the WordPress.org plugin repository guidelines. Mika Epstein's post in the Make WordPress blog has a little bit of background on how this came together.

WordPress 4.6 is in Beta, and it’s time to test

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WordPress 4.6 is rolling on, currently in Beta 2. The release includes a handful of new minor features, and you'll certainly want to test your products and important sites prior to the full release. Now is the time to do…

A recent vulnerability was discovered in…

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A recent vulnerability was discovered in the ImageMagick library, and even though this isn't included in WordPress core, loads of servers running WordPress sites use this library. Here's some information from the Make WordPress blog if you're interested plus few tips to…

Encouragement to reward folks who find plugin vulnerabilities

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Mika Epstein posted a recommendation on Make WordPress Plugins for authors who make money from plugins to utilize a service like HackerOne to help identify and fix vulnerabilities in their plugins. The WordPress tag on HackerOne -- which is a…
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