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WordPress 5.7.2 is available. It’s a security release (Ram Gall talks about specifics on the WordFence blog), so make sure to update if you don’t have automatic updates active on your sites. 🔒
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…
WooCommerce RC1 and RC2 • GetEllipsis search volume trends report shows growth for Woo • Negative security perceptions • Remkus de Vries on burnout and making life changes.
Are you dealing with bloated code and overdue for some refactoring? Head over to Mario Peshev’s recent post, “How to Identify, Debug, and Improve Messed Up WordPress Code.” Mario explains why bloated code might lead to security problems and headaches while explaining how refactoring code can save on hosting costs and improve a customer’s experience. WordPress is…
It’s your weekly roundup of news briefs for busy WordPress professionals! @dimensionmedia, can you believe we’ve done almost 500 of these? -Ed.
In this episode of The Excerpt, David Bisset speaks with Carl Alexander and Tonya Mork about PHP news WordPressers should know about.
Cory Miller asks, “What can we do to better support our plugin developers and product owners?” Katie Keith offers some clues with the story of her WordPress/WooCommerce agency and product shop, Barn2 Plugins. Dan Knauss and Nyasha Green talk about microaggressions, the Active Install Growth Data story, and US federal legislation aimed at Open Source Security. In an increasingly “demon-haunted world,” how can we know who is doing what with the hardware and software tools we use? Ben Gabler, CEO and Founder of Rocket.net, is in our Member Spotlight.
