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WordPress 6.0.2 Security and Maintenance Release: WordPress.org’s Bug Bounty Program at Work

Dan Knauss

August 31, 2022

Ram Dall over at Wordfence has a good breakdown of three vulnerabilities patched in the WordPress 6.0.2 Security and Maintenance Release.

Open Secrets: Forced Updates in WordPress

Dan Knauss

July 1, 2022

FeaturesMake WordPress

We've seen forced updates become increasingly common and less controversial over time. But who decides, and how is that decision made? Are there unofficial channels and processes, like a decision tree, for escalating to a forced update?

Post Status Notes #490

David Bisset

March 17, 2022

BusinessDesign

Newfold acquires YITH, Hostopia. Wordfence stops FastOrSlow.com. DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks. Tips and tricks for WordPress devs.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 45) — The Block Protocol, Tumblr, and Complexity with Lesley Sim

David Bisset

February 10, 2022

PlanetPost Status Podcasts

What is the Block Protocol and why does it matter? What's the significance of Matt taking over at Tumblr? And is WordPress way too complicated?

Post Status Excerpt (No. 44) — Small Wins with Small Plugins

David Bisset

February 3, 2022

BusinessHosting

Collins Agbonghama is the Founder of ProfilePress. He spoke with David about his recent success acquiring a plugin and breaking even in just four months.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 36) — Help Needed: WordPress Docs Team

David Bisset

December 9, 2021

PlanetPost Status Podcasts

Milana Cap tells David about the stark reality of the near-overwhelming workload facing the WordPress Documentation Team.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 28) — A WordPress Core Performance Team?

David Bisset

October 15, 2021

PlanetPost Status Podcasts

Cory and David talk about WordPress's reputation relative to its performance and a new proposal for a Performance Team for WordPress core.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 19) — How Can New Developers Get Started In WordPress?

David Bisset

August 6, 2021

BusinessPlanet

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about how new developers might be able to get a footing with a career in WordPress. (The first step might be more social than technical in nature.)

Wordfence reports that the official SendGrid…

Dan Knauss

July 23, 2021

Wordfence reports that the official SendGrid for WordPress plugin is vulnerable to authorization bypass if run in multisite. The plugin is no longer maintained and no longer downloadable from the plugin repo, but it is reported to have 100,000+ active…

Footnotes #456

Dan Knauss

July 23, 2021

BusinessDesign

Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms…

Wordfence has a created a whitepaper…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

Security

Wordfence has a created a whitepaper aimed at developers and security researchers to share how coding flaws can introduce some of the most common and significant WordPress vulnerabilities — and how to prevent them. 🔒

DAVID’S PICKS 📬 Videos 📺 Here…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

BusinessDesign

DAVID'S PICKS 📬 Videos 📺 Here are my video picks for the week: WordCamp Europe 2021: The video feeds from all three days of WCEUE are available on YouTube, with individual videos to be published in the coming weeks on…

Post Status Excerpt (No. 12) — Takeaways from the ACF Acquisition

David Bisset

June 2, 2021

PlanetPost Status Podcasts

Cory and David discuss the recently announced acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin by Delicious Brains.

Making Online Summits Work with Nathan Wrigley and Anchen le Roux

Karen Johnson

May 24, 2021

BusinessDesign

Watch Cory Miller in a conversation with Nathan Wrigley and Anchen le Roux about effective online event hosting from planning to execution.

If you or your clients use…

Dan Knauss

April 20, 2021

Security

If you or your clients use Kaswara Modern WPBakery Page Builder (10k+ installations), then you might want to uninstall it when you can. Wordfence is reporting a critical zero-day vulnerability. And if you use Elementor, make sure it's updated. A vulnerability…

WP Lookout has added a new…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

WP Lookout has added a new feature that will try to detect and notify you when a WordPress.org plugin has been marked as “closed” in the plugin directory. 🔌 Founder Chris Hardie says they're also noting plugins that have been…

WordPress 6.0.2 Security and Maintenance Release: WordPress.org’s Bug Bounty Program at Work

Open Secrets: Forced Updates in WordPress

Post Status Notes #490

Post Status Excerpt (No. 45) — The Block Protocol, Tumblr, and Complexity with Lesley Sim

Post Status Excerpt (No. 44) — Small Wins with Small Plugins

Post Status Excerpt (No. 36) — Help Needed: WordPress Docs Team

Post Status Excerpt (No. 28) — A WordPress Core Performance Team?

Post Status Excerpt (No. 19) — How Can New Developers Get Started In WordPress?

Wordfence reports that the official SendGrid…

Footnotes #456

Wordfence has a created a whitepaper…

Post Status Excerpt (No. 12) — Takeaways from the ACF Acquisition

Making Online Summits Work with Nathan Wrigley and Anchen le Roux

If you or your clients use…

WP Lookout has added a new…

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