Tony Perez, of Sucuri, has provided a summary, with explanation for the less security fluent of us, of a vulnerability in both W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache. Definitely update right away.
WordPress core is debating a change to always require braces, even for one line, in PHP if statements. Looks like the +1’s are winning. That’s a good thing in my opinion. Is this the most detail oriented thing I’ve ever posted? Probably.
Android owners will be happy to know that WordPress for Android has received a big update. Personally, ‘ve grown to really like using WordPress with my phone.
Matt Mullenweg fields questions in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” thread after WordCamp San Francisco 2013 on July 31 at 3pm Pacific Time.
There’s some very healthy discussion going on in the Make WordPress Support blog, where Mike Epstein (Ipstenu) asks: What support forum tools can be made better? Be sure to see her list of known ideas (like reply-by-email), check out the requests in the comments, and chime in yourself! This is a good opportunity to have…
Tom McFarlin is always blogging fantastic things. This is another great one. He calls for developers to be more abstract in their WordPress code; in other words, to separate what goes where in a more logical, easier to repeat manner. With good examples of un-abstracted and abstracted code, he shows why abstraction in programming is…
AJ Kohn talks about participation inequality online in his defense of comments, using a number of level-headed metrics, as part of his argument that comments are good for blogs. A small amount of creators are responsible for the vast majority of the content we consume. They have a limited amount of attention yet wield a lot…
