Shawn Hooper wrote a handy plugin…
Shawn Hooper wrote a handy plugin that scans your database for orphan tables and deletes them from WordPress multisite environments.
Complete coverage should not be a requirement for core inclusion of WordPress REST API endpoints
Brian Krogsgard
The WordPress REST API is at a bit of a crossroads. There is a proposal on the table by the core team of four contributors — Ryan McCue, Rachel Baker, Daniel Bachhuber, and Joe Hoyle — to ship endpoints to WordPress core iteratively. There is a pushback on this proposal by WordPress Project Lead and co-founder Matt Mullenweg.
You can conditionally force SSL within…
You can conditionally force SSL within wp-config for Multisite installations.
WordPress.com VIP is close to launching VIP Go — their next generation of hosting
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress.com VIP is working hard on launching new infrastructure that allows for a more traditional WordPress setup for VIP clients, and makes a variety of improvements that their service partners will enjoy. Called VIP Go, it's basically a VIP 2.0.…
WordPress 4.4, “Clifford”, released
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 4.4, “Clifford”, has been released. Clifford includes infrastructure for the WordPress REST API, taxonomy and comment improvements, as well as the new Twenty Sixteen default theme, the ability to embed posts anywhere, and much more.
Delicious brains teased new functionality for…
Delicious brains teased new functionality for Migrate DB Pro that allows for easy moving of sites in/out of Multisite (even to single installs). It looks awesome.
Benefits for importing old archives, versus separate sites
Brian Krogsgard
Running large, long running publications can come with significant challenges. I think one of the shining examples of WordPress in action on the web today is WIRED. In their latest engineering update, Kathleen Vignos shares that they've moved more than…
The Multisite focused changes for WordPress…
The Multisite focused changes for WordPress 4.4 are yet another awesome iteration on the feature.
Features as plugins hit core for 4.4
Brian Krogsgard
The WordPress 4.4 train is rolling and rolling fast still. oEmbed, Responsive Images, and the REST API infrastructure have all been committed to core. The links for the merge tickets are as follows: oEmbed, #32522 Responsive Images, #33641 REST API…
WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 4.3, "Billie", has been released. Billie includes four major user-facing features that most website owners will experience on a semi-regular basis, and many other enhancements, bug fixes, and developer features.
WP Migrate DB Pro 1.5 & Multisite Tools Addon 1.0 Released
Japh Thomson
While we're talking about Delicious Brains, Brad has posted announcing updates to their premium plugins. WP Migrate DB Pro in particular is a hugely useful plugin that a lot of people rely on for migrating data from MySQL databases between…
The third step for shared terms: elimination
Brian Krogsgard
You may even call it... termination. Okay, I'm sorry. This is from Boone Gorges: Work on the taxonomy roadmap, started in earnest during the 4.1 dev cycle, continues to chug along for WordPress 4.3. We’ve been focusing on the elimination…
New committers for WordPress 4.3
Brian Krogsgard
With the WordPress 4.3 release cycle, three new people are getting guest commit access, two are continuing their guest commit access from 4.2, and three have been announced to have permanent commit access. New guest committers for WordPress 4.3: Ella…
Loopconf highlights
Brian Krogsgard
I mooched off of Loopconf for two days straight, watching the live stream for free. I caught at least half of the sessions, and most of the speakers were terrific. I highly recommend you just peruse the Loopconf Youtube channel to…
Demo WP Pro helps you create demo sites for WordPress products
Brian Krogsgard
The folks behind Ninja Forms are working on a new plugin, called Demo WP Pro. Demo WP Pro is pretty meta, as it's intended for people that sell WordPress related products. The plugin allows you to create demo sites available for users…
WordPress 3.9, “Smith”
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 3.9, "Smith", has just been released. It is named after James Oscar "Jimmy" Smith. WordPress 3.9 is the hard result of hard work from 267 contributors. The WordPress 3.9 release was led by Andrew Nacin and Co-led by Mike…
