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WordPress 4.4.1 Security And Maintenance Release Now Available

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January 6, 2016

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WordPress 4.4.1 shipped today. The announcement says that Crtc4L reported that anything 4.4 or older could be “affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability that could allow a site to be compromised.” Users are advised to update as soon as possible. WordPress 4.4.1 addresses issues found in older versions of OpenSSL and includes updated emoji support. The update fixes 52 bugs discovered in WordPress 4.4. To see a full list of the fixes, check the Installation/Update information. You can update your site directly on WordPress.org or in your WordPress dashboard.  

100 WordPress Influencers To Follow In 2016

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January 6, 2016

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Last year, I wrote a post on 100 WordPress influencers to follow in 2015. The list was based off who I followed before 2015. All of them, in some way or another, work to improve the WordPress community. I had the pleasure of interviewing many of them over the year. Several commenters shared their own lists of influencers and recommendations of WordPressers to follow. I connected and followed many of these people in 2015. I also followed some hidden gems in the WordPress community who are contributing to WordPress with their amazing products and services. 2015 was a great year […]

How To Use Asynchronous PHP In WordPress

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January 5, 2016

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PHP executes code in series, which means one thing is done after another. This can be problematic when you need to do a lot of processing in one session or if you are relying on calls to external APIs. In this article, I’m going to show you how to use asynchronous PHP in WordPress to address this issue. It isn’t uncommon for a server to be configured with a 30-second timeout limit for each request, which puts a hard cap on the amount of time each session has to do its work. Of course, if that processing is required in […]

Google’s Search Quality Rating Guidelines – What They Mean For Your WordPress Website

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January 4, 2016

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Don’t we all want to be on the first place in Google? Getting masses of organic free traffic every month is a dream that is probably as old as the search engine itself. Hell, the entire field of SEO is basically based on this goal. If only we could get a glimpse at the inner workings of Google and how they put together their search rankings. Now you can, with the release of Google’s Search Quality Rating Guidelines. To understand what they are, you first need to know that Google has hired hundreds of people as content quality raters. Their entire job is to […]

Torque’s 2015 WordPress News Roundup

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December 31, 2015

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It’s been a great year for Torque Magazine — filled with tutorials, WordCamps, plugins, and more. Let’s take a look at some of Torque’s most popular articles in 2015! In the Community WordPress wouldn’t be WordPress without its robust community. Let’s take a look at 10 community highlights from 2015: WordPress now powers 25% of the Internet Inside the workplaces of 16 WordPress community mavens Habits, skills, and tools of 10 world-class WordPress developers The best WordPress swag and gear for the true fan ManageWP’s weekly AMAs ‘The History of WordPress,’ the story (so far) Automattic wins cybersquatting battle for Thesis.com […]

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