Matt Mullenweg also announced that the Nikolay Bachiyski will be the new Security Czar for WordPress.org. If you don’t know him, Nikolay is a contributor to WordPress core, an Automattician, contributor to GlotPress, and generally a hugely talented individual. WP Tavern have a little more detail around this new appointment too.
From WP Tavern, [Sergej] Müller is discontinuing his WordPress contributions due to health reasons, but he plans to find a suitable successor who will be able to deliver the level of quality and support that his users have come to expect. His plugins, most notably Antispam Bee, Cachify, Statify, wpSEO and Optimus, are used widely…
Matt Mullenweg dropped in on the conversation surrounding the theme review debate last night, and dropped hammer. To try and summarize, he basically opened the door for all sorts of potential changes for both the theme review process and the WordPress.org theme directory / website. Some of the specifics, slightly adjusted for clarity and grammar:…
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. What? It’s a long-standing rule that free WordPress.org themes should not create content (custom post…
WordPress turned 12 today. Version 0.7 of WordPress was released May 27th, 2003, after Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little forked the stagnated b2. Matt Mullenweg had cake: He also talked to Jeff Chandler on WP Tavern to mark the occasion. I haven’t caught the entire interview yet but the topics look like good ones.
The new WordPress.org commercial theme page — which was launched just a couple of weeks ago — seems to have greatly reduced the number of referrals to commercial theme shops. Many commercial theme providers featured on WordPress.org are noting 80%+ drops in referrals. Bill Robbins, of Organized Themes, noted in the WP Tavern comments, “WordPress.org…
In a provocative article on WP Tavern titled “Envato Continues to Rake in the Cash from WordPress Themes Packaged as Complete Website Solutions”, Sarah Gooding slams Envato for their role in what I’ll call the “big theme” market. Envato theme authors are making large sums of cash by selling themes that are packaged as complete solutions…
There has been a lot of talk lately around putting commercial plugin code on public Github repos. #thankspippin. Seriously, thanks. This is a good conversation to have. GravityView is the latest plugin to make this change. I’m pleased to see it. However, in the WP Tavern article about it, it’s cited as a “business model”…
There’s a popular WordPress vulnerability scanner called WPScan. To validate its popularity: it has over 1,800 commits, 750 stars, and 165 forks on Github. The scanner is used by a lot of security folks, as well as other service and product vendors. The plugin has historically been split license, sort-of, between GPL and some kind…
HeroPress aims to help WordPress professionals around the world that have felt excluded by the western WordPress community. There are a large number of WordPress developers in the world that feel excluded from the Western WordPress community for a variety of reasons, including culture, language, location, time zone, and personal challenges. We’re finding people around…
I’m tired. Really, really tired. I’ve been tired for weeks. Those of you who follow this blog closely know that it’s been slow around here. I’ve only published ten blog posts since the beginning of August. For me, that’s three to four times less than normal. I’m not burned out, but I’ve definitely been on…
Welcome to the fourth “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. There are a lot of great reads to catch up on this week: WordPress Beta 2 is ready for testing Self explanatory but important — WordPress…
I thought it’d be fun to try something new here. As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve been doing fewer link posts. That is the result of a good bit of thinking, strategic and otherwise. I’ll dive more into that later. I’ll still do some long-ish form link posts, but I won’t be able to link all the things…
WPArmchair is a pet project by David Bisset. An avid WordCamp fan, he’s regularly created microsites for WordCamps, so that attendees and folks at home can follow along, viewing tweets and pictures based on WordCamp hashtags. Now, WPArmchair is taking it to the next level. The folks behind AppPresser, which I’ve reviewed before, have created the…
I had the pleasure of being a guest on WPwatercooler today, where we talked about where to go to learn WordPress. I thought I’d share more in a post here. How I learned My perspective as a learner is centered around development — mostly theme development. I was introduced to WordPress in 2008 and by…
BuddyPress 1.9, “Sammy” was released last night, and for the first time in two years added a new component: notifications. Sarah Gooding has done a nice job on WP Tavern highlighting the various details of the release.
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