This Week at WordPress.org (October 25, 2021)

ByCourtney Robertson Posted onOctober 27, 2021February 24, 2022 Updated onFebruary 24, 2022

Each week we’ll highlight news from WordPress.org that you don’t want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we’ve got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this resource with your product and project managers.

Core

New:

Ongoing:

Design

New:

Site Editing iA concepts – Part 2.

Ongoing:

Site editing IA concepts: How to surface and access new features.

Project

Suggested iterations for the Five for the Future program and tool.

Support

Planning our shared component-push.

Test

Training

A Dedicated Volunteer Program for the Training Team.

Security

We’re wishing Tony Perez all the…

ByDan Knauss April 17, 2020

We’re wishing Tony Perez all the best as he leaves GoDaddy and explores full-time work on his projects CleanBrowsing (a DNS-based content filtering service) and ColdPath (a security consulting company). 🛅

WordPress News

Things to consider when inheriting a WordPress site

ByBrian Krogsgard November 4, 2013January 31, 2015

WP Beginner has written some helpful tips for those that inherit or purchase a WordPress site. I wouldn’t be surprised if most people forget about many of these things, so be sure to bookmark it and have it ready for when you handoff or inherit a website.

Security | WordPress News

A summary of recent WordPress security attacks

ByBrian Krogsgard April 16, 2013January 31, 2015

Chris Jean, of iThemes, has done a nice job summarizing the recent flood of WordPress brute force login attacks, along with ways to prevent them. There is also a Codex page on handling brute force attacks that’s getting a lot of effort put into it right now.

Development

Filter existing shortcodes in WordPress 3.6

ByBrian Krogsgard July 25, 2013January 31, 2015

Here’s a great post with a working example of the new shortcode_atts{$shortcode} filter available in WordPress 3.6 that allows developers to filter an existing shortcode’s parameters. I need stuff like this all the time. The only catch is that the shortcode itself needs to support the new shortcode parameter, so you may have to pester the developer…

Notes

A small team from Mozilla has…

ByDan Knauss December 9, 2016February 9, 2023

A small team from Mozilla has created FlyWheel which – as this post explains – is “an API for web pages to host local web servers for exposing content and services to nearby browsers”. This is interesting because these browser APIs are useful for advertising and discovering local-area web servers, which opens up possibilities ranging…