Mika Epstein

If you are a plugin developer…

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

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…

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

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…

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

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…

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

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…

Photo of author
Dan Knauss

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…

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard
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…

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

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

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard
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…

A non-policy policy on PHP versions

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

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…
A2 Hosting
WordPress.com