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Free WordPress themes and the elephant in the room

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2015

There has been a big kerfuffle the last few days in the community of theme authors and theme reviewers on WordPress.org. The theme review team discovered that some themes are skirting (knowingly or not knowingly) some old-standing rules around content creation.…

Solving plugin dependency

Brian Krogsgard

May 26, 2015

Ryan McCue and Gary Pendergast have differing viewpoints on plugin dependency and how to solve it (or whether to solve it at all). Watching them debate is music to my ears. From Ryan: Software is invariably never built in isolation (“no…

Struggles developing a commercial WordPress plugin

Brian Krogsgard

May 21, 2015

From Iain on the Delicious Brains blog: Building software to sell is a tricky business. It isn’t always as simple as writing code and getting people to buy it. WordPress commercial plugins come with their own set of considerations, issues…

An argument to change WordPress plugin distribution

Brian Krogsgard

May 14, 2015

Josh Pollock has a lot of thoughts on WordPress plugin distribution on WordPress.org. WordPress.org probably shouldn’t become an eCommerce platform and I don’t think it’s the right place to be upselling plugins and themes. It could, however, better facilitate paid…

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

Sami Keijonen

May 7, 2015

DesignDevelopment

Accessibility is an important part of modern web development. It is our responsibility as creators of WordPress themes to make them accessible to all users, on any device. In this article, I'll offer some simple tips to create better, more accessible WordPress themes.

WordPress 4.2.2 released to protect against critical security bug in Genericons

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

Security

WordPress 4.2.2 was released this evening in order to protect against a critical security bug in Genericons. From the release post: The Genericons icon font package, which is used in a number of popular themes and plugins, contained an HTML…

Theme Review Team to require using the Customizer for all theme options

Devin Price

April 22, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

All theme options must now be included in the Customizer for themes submitted to the WordPress theme repository. Custom theme options pages will not be allowed. The change will have implications for authors, reviewers, and users of WordPress themes.

Custom settings screens no longer allowed in WordPress.org themes

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2015

Custom settings screens are no longer going to be allowed in WordPress themes submitted to WordPress.org. All settings are to go through the Customizer now, after a theme review team meeting in Slack today, where the change was championed by Justin…

Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

April 20, 2015

PlanetSecurity

A coordinated plugin update occurred this morning between many popular WordPress plugins to address a common security vulnerability that allows for XSS cross-site scripting attacks.

Inside Jetpack

Brian Krogsgard

April 13, 2015

Hosting

Sarah Gooding has an interesting long form piece that goes inside Jetpack's multiple team setup at Automattic, and how they think about development and the structure of the plugin. I found the bit about installs... odd. Automattic is aware of…

Recommendations for improving WordPress plugin quality

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2015

Daniel Pataki is generally a thoughtful writer, and he knows his stuff with WordPress. He's written in-depth articles for Smashing Magazine and others. I hesitate to link to anything on WPMUDev, but this post is worth reading. Daniel advocates that…

Drupal and WordPress have sold us out

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2015

Hosting

Kevin Ohashi dives into the hosting recommendations from both Drupal and WordPress, calling them out as false and with little-disclosed intentions.

WordPress to be bundled in Jetpack with mission to power 50% of the web

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2015

WordPress News

WordPress co-founder and Jetpack enthusiast Matt Mullenweg has announced that WordPress is to be bundled in future versions of Jetpack as a module, to fulfill Matt's mission to power 50% of the web.

Andrew Nacin has joined the White House’s U.S. Digital Service

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2015

Make WordPressPlanet

Andrew Nacin now works at the U.S. Digital Service, the federal government service that aims to "redefine public service for a new generation." Nacin continues his role as WordPress lead developer, but is stepping back from working on the project full time.

New to me: Unsplash photos in the admin and an alternative Ajax post loader

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2015

I like running across things that aren't necessarily new but are new to me. I discovered a company recently called Connekt that has a few nice little plugins, two of which I'd like to note: Ajax Load More: A slick…

Yoast SEO vulnerability, disclosure, and forced upgrade

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2015

Security

Yoast released a new version of the WordPress SEO plugin in the last 24 hours, which fixes a blind SQL injection vulnerability. According to a post mortem by Joost de Valk, the bug wasn't caught in security audits, but was…

Free WordPress themes and the elephant in the room

Solving plugin dependency

Struggles developing a commercial WordPress plugin

An argument to change WordPress plugin distribution

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

WordPress 4.2.2 released to protect against critical security bug in Genericons

Theme Review Team to require using the Customizer for all theme options

Custom settings screens no longer allowed in WordPress.org themes

Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins

Inside Jetpack

Recommendations for improving WordPress plugin quality

Drupal and WordPress have sold us out

WordPress to be bundled in Jetpack with mission to power 50% of the web

Andrew Nacin has joined the White House’s U.S. Digital Service

New to me: Unsplash photos in the admin and an alternative Ajax post loader

Yoast SEO vulnerability, disclosure, and forced upgrade

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