Scott Kingsley Clark

Our Door is Always Open

Cory Miller

July 8, 2022

Coming soon: the Post Status Index, an EMEA Huddle requested by our European members, and my talk about the importance of taking time off. Also, our door is always open for members of Underrepresented in Tech and anyone who finds the cost of membership a barrier to joining us. If you work professionally in WordPress or want to, we want you here!

Scott Kingsley Clark is asking for…

Dan Knauss

January 9, 2020

Scott Kingsley Clark is asking for donations to support the Pods Framework this year. Automattic has withdrawn its sponsorship of the project, which has provided 90% of the Pods team's total funding. Understandably, Automattic "want[s] to focus their funding on…

Scott Kingsley Clark posted an update of…

March 15, 2016

Scott Kingsley Clark posted an update of the Fields API on the Make WordPress Core site. It's a good summary of what the current API can do and what you can do to help. "Every area needs review," Scott remarks. The…

The state of handling custom metadata in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 7, 2014

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress has a table for handling metadata of posts. Quite simply, it's a good place to store "stuff" that relates to a post, but doesn't belong in one of the standard parts of the posts table. Metadata can be nearly…

All Pods 2.x versions need updating due to significant security vulnerability

Brian Krogsgard

June 23, 2014

DesignSecurity

Scott Kingsley Clark notified me this morning that a security update has been released for all versions of Pods 2.0 and later. Pods allows for the creation or extension of WordPress content types. Any website that uses the feature to…