Mika Epstein

If you are a plugin developer…

Brian Krogsgard

October 25, 2017

If you are a plugin developer and thinking about selling your plugin, here's some good advice from Mika Epstein to consider first. Mika notes some red flags to watch out for, like prospective buyers that have "no visible, active participation…

Mika Epstein ran into the perennial…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2017

Mika Epstein ran into the perennial challenge of Genesis child theme users who customize their theme code. Genesis themes are all child themes for the Genesis Framework, which you shouldn't modify. Mika's solution was a grandchild theme plugin to keep…

If you’ve ever wanted to add…

Brian Krogsgard

April 25, 2017

If you've ever wanted to add something to the "publish box" in the WordPress editor, it's not as hard as I would've anticipated. Mika Epstein shows how in a recent tutorial, which is cool, because I was just thinking recently…

After the hubub around Jetpack’s decision…

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2017

After the hubub around Jetpack's decision to become a theme marketplace, Mika Epstein clarified what constitutes an allowed versus not-allowed third party integration for executable code. Not to any fault of Mika or the rest of the plugin team, it…

After the recent discovery of REST…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

After the recent discovery of REST API vulnerabilities in WordPress 4.7.1 and 4.7 Mika Epstein wrote an impactful post recently entitled "A Case for REST API". I really like this calm approach to the subject - I highly recommend you…

Mika Epstein notifies developers of a…

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2017

Security

Mika Epstein notifies developers of a recent plugin guideline change in the WordPress plugin repo. Guideline 12 (“Public facing pages on WordPress.org may not spam”) is now more clear in broadcasting the message “Do not use your readme to spam.”…

Mika Epstein talks about her recent…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2016

Mika Epstein talks about her recent discovery that using SVGs can actually result in slower page speeds than PNGs once you hit a certain number on one page load.

Plugin repo and frameworks

Brian Krogsgard

March 1, 2016

Hosting

There's a newly clarified policy on Make Plugins from Mika Epstein where she says that developer frameworks are no longer going to be approved for the plugin repo. Plugins like CMB2, Advanced Custom Fields and others that may be dependencies of other…

DreamHost CEO Simon Anderson is leaving after disagreements with board

Brian Krogsgard

November 19, 2015

Hosting

In the world of hosting, there are the big players (like EIG and GoDaddy), lots of tiny companies, and a couple of handfuls of companies in-between. DreamHost is a tweener, that's not huge, but not small, and has a fairly WordPress-centric platform.…

Takeaways from interviewing 13 great WordPress developers

Fred Meyer

August 10, 2015

Development

After interviewing thirteen WordPress developers for a book on getting up and running with WordPress development, I have some key takeaways that I'd like to share with you.

A non-policy policy on PHP versions

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2015

The official stance of WordPress.org is that WordPress is supported on PHP 5.2.4 or greater. The official stance of the Plugin Team regarding what version of PHP your plugins can use is .. not that. We don’t have an official…