🥳 WordPress 6.2 is now available! If you haven’t started testing yet, now is the time.
Gutenberg is a 4 phase approach to nearly all areas of WordPress. Phase 1 was Posts and Pages. Phase 2 included Themes. Matias Ventura shares what we could see in Phase 3.
Andy Fragen has posted a call for testing on the Plugin Dependencies plugin.
We’re just one week away from WordPress 6.2. Have you tested it and read the field guide yet? If you write code for a plugin that is in the WordPress Plugins Repo, you’ll want to ensure the code is GPL compatible.
Discover WordPress 6.2’s new features, accessibility enhancements, and developer updates. Contribute to the community by joining the Contributor Working Group. Explore new block theme template. Engage in discussions on mentorship programs. Celebrate WP20 and participate in the Wapuu Coloring Giveaway.
Till Krüss explains how he found his way into WordPress and a successful business that’s solving the hard problems of caching and performance optimization. His work and business model suggest several areas of opportunity for developers and founders working in the WordPress plugin market today.
From client services and agency work to a successful product business — Katie Keith tells Cory the Barn2 Plugins story in this episode of Post Status Draft.
On August 8, wordpress.org was down for a few hours after a Chicago data center outage. During the outage, a user of a password security plugin reported it replaced salt keys with an outage notice, leading to a WSOD on a customer’s site.
Once you know these states, you can assign probabilities of transitioning from one state to another (someone hacks your account and locks you out, you forgot your own password, etc.) and then build optimal security and reliability to deal with it. It’s a truly elegant way of conceptualizing the problem.
The first-ever core preview walkthru with contribs for WP 6.0. Lots of Gutenberg news, big WordCamp comebacks, and other cool things!
An App Store for WordPress.com? Performance Team Gathers Steam. WP Notify. FSE Beta. Block is Beautiful. Security, Plugin, Dev, Acquisitions.
Ashley Rich has written a nice article detailing PHP Encryption Methods for passwords and sensitive data. Each encryption method has multiple algorithms or ciphers to choose from, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Ashley focuses on implementing hashing and secret key encryption.
Eric Mann recently announced a side project — an “Advanced Passwords” premium plugin. As Eric explains, this project aims to better protect WordPress sites by securing passwords used for authentication and protected content.
I stumbled on the “Tozny API” recently which instead of passwords presents a functionality similar to “email me an access code” from Slack. The purpose of which is to help either verify email addresses or promote password-free authentication for your users. It’s an interesting concept although i’m not sure if it’s going to be accepted…
Google has been pushing HTTPS harder than anyone. They haven’t been alone — not by a long shot — but they are making the most aggressive moves to push the web to full encryption. Their latest move is the biggest, I think. They are going to start declaring any website with a form that processes…
I recently stumbled upon a plugin from 10up called “WP-Hammer” that cleans and removes information from a WordPress site that might be sensitive — like emails and passwords or undesired users and posts. This might be a quick and dirty tool for developers that perhaps need to quickly remove such things from a client site after…
You could say that Linode has been a bit of a pain in WP Engine’s ass lately. Linode is one of their service providers (they were their only/primary one for a long time, I believe), which basically means WP Engine uses a bunch of their infrastructure. Well, Linode’s been getting DDoS’d like crazy, making a…
WP Engine sent emails to all existing (and apparently many former) customers stating that they needed to reset every password associated with their account: While we have no evidence that the information was used inappropriately, as a precaution, we are invalidating the following five passwords associated with your WP Engine account. This means you…
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