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3.8.2 Security Update is Now Available

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April 9, 2014

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WordPress has reached milestone 3.8.2. Yesterday, Andrew Nacin announced the security release—urging users to update their sites right away. The update requires urgency as it addresses substantial security concerns that have been reported to the WordPress security team over the past few months. One security concern that 3.8.2 addresses is site vulnerability to forgery of authentication cookies. The fallacy, identified and resolved Jon Cave, was that attackers could potentially obtain access to WordPress sites by forging authentication cookies. Another change 3.8.2 has provided is new privilege-setting abilities. You can now prevent “Contributors” from publishing unwanted posts. In the announcement, Nacin went […]

Diving into Dictator: A Provisioning Tool for WordPress

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April 8, 2014

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Some of you may have seen the announcement of a new WP-CLI package known as Dictator. Dictator allows you to define the “state” of your WordPress install. It keeps a running record of your WordPress configuration options, broken up into three categories. “Settings” stores basic site information like title, description, and active theme and plugins. “Users” stores the name, email, and display_name of each user. “Terms” holds categories, tags, and other post metadata. All of this information is stored neatly in a small YAML config file. That way, you can hand off a config file to various members of a […]

Dissecting WordPress: single.php

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April 7, 2014

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WordPress is used by bloggers, which isn’t surprising being that it was originally a blogging platform. Although it has become much more than that, it still functions as a blogging tool for many. For those bloggers out there, I will now dissect SINGLE.PHP, the template that displays a single post. This is part of series of articles centered around dissecting the different components of WordPress. If you were able to understand, and make sense of, my discussion on PAGE.PHP, you’ll find SINGLE.PHP to be quite simple. It features the “loop,” navigational elements, the comments template (which I will also review here), […]

An Introduction to bobWP Tutorials

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April 7, 2014

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WordPress-specific tutorials, workshops, and other educational resources are becoming increasingly more popular. This could be because WordPress is one of the most developer-friendly Content Management Systems, or, perhaps, because it’s the most preferred blogging platform. Whatever the reason, the WordPress ecosystem is growing—and with it WordPress education has blossomed into a flourishing niche. So, what are some of the resources available? WordPress professional Bob Dunn recently entered into this sphere by founding an online tutorial website. Now called Bobwp.com, the site includes all of the blog content from Dunn’s old site, plus  the content from bobWP Tutorials. The tutorials provides beginner and […]

The Expanding World Of WordPress Innovation

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April 4, 2014

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With a growing number of innovations centered around WordPress, the community has begun to immerse itself in the broader realm of mainstream technology. WordPress businesses are starting to compete, and find their place, among other popular technology — and WordPress, as an ecosystem, is evolving. One illustration of this can be seen in AppPresser’s recent nomination as one of the 6 About to Break at MacWorld/iWorld. To understand how AppPresser — and WordPress more broadly — fit into this scene, I reached out to the co-founder of AppPresser, Scott Bolinger, to share his experience. Macworld/iWorld is an annual, Apple-dedicated trade show. Each […]

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