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It is proposal season on Make…

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Brian Krogsgard

It is proposal season on Make Core. Three proposals are interesting to explore further: Notifications API: proposed by John Blackbourn, a notifications API would enable developers to hook into WordPress email notifications to change the notification venue (to Slack, etc)…

Jetpack 4.3 to include React-based settings, further integrated marketing

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Brian Krogsgard

Jetpack 4.3 Beta was announced today, and includes a new React-driven interface, as well as more integrated marketing pitches for the WordPress.com apps and paid upgrades. The new interface is an improvement, but there are several changes functionally. One I noticed…

What happens when site owners don’t…

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David Bisset

What happens when site owners don't get critical update notifications about their plugins because they no longer have the license (or worse the plugin was included in a purchased theme)? Mike Epstein asks this question and proceeds to throw out…

NotifyBot is a new plugin that allows…

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NotifyBot is a new plugin that allows you to receive notifications such as text message, email, push, for various events such as logins and post changes (and also works with some popular 3rd party plugins).

A Day of REST is going to Boston

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Brian Krogsgard
The second A Day of REST conference will be in Boston, Massachusetts. The event will cover the WordPress REST API in-depth, with talks and workshops from leaders in the community. It will be co-organized by Human Made and Post Status.

A Canadian court has issued an opinion…

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A Canadian court has issued an opinion with a vomit inducing description of open source. A problem Chenier saw was that 21st Capital used "open source code" and made changes, sometimes on a weekly basis, to its program code without testing…

WordPress security release, and 4.5 development kicks off

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Brian Krogsgard
It was the first truly busy day in WordPress core land since the release of WordPress 4.4. Two big things happened: A maintenance and security update was released in WordPress 4.4.1, and the security component affected all versions back that can…

iThemes Security is integrating Sucuri malware scanning

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Brian Krogsgard
iThemes announced today that both their free iThemes Security and their commercial iThemes Security Pro plugins are integrating Sucuri's malware scanning service. The free one is just an opt-in one off option, which is nice but can also be accomplished…

WordPress Notification Manager

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Brian Krogsgard

Barry Kooij has released a new plugin, called WordPress Notification Manager. I credit myself and my complaining almost completely for this getting done. Thanks Barry. WordPress Notification Manager takes those frustrating WordPress notifications and groups them in a toolbar dropdown…

Work can wait

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Brian Krogsgard

Remote work and digital nomad-ing may be the future, but it can have consequences. You are never away from the office when your home is your office, and with workers in all kinds of timezones and on all kinds of…

Strong passwords by default

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Brian Krogsgard

Mark Jaquith has further outlined the new password features in 4.3, and they are exciting. I think this may prove to be the most important new feature for this release. I've already covered this, but I'm covering it again. I…
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