Happy Monday! Looks like I have a number of new plugins for today’s roundup. I’m a big fan of Spotify myself and was excited to see a plugin for it. It could be pretty cool to be able to share your playlists with people using WP Lazy Spotify. Maybe you like sharing the places you go to instead. If so, you might want to check out the FourSquare Checkins plugin. You guys see anything else from this list that jumps out at you?
Yes, that is a monkey and yes he is wearing a mask and a cape. He is one of the newest editions to our growing office space and is something that I will personally enjoy chucking at my partners. Today is yet another day where I will spend most of it cleaning up and building random things here and there while the rest of my team does work remotely. You see, there are going to be quite a few times right now where I’ll be the only one here as we’re finalizing schedules and making changes in our separate lives […]
Hey, as they say: If it ain’t broke then don’t fix it! And that’s what ManageWP has decided to do with their Android port of their iOS app that launched a few months back. You’ll find a near 1-to-1 experience if you’ve taken a look at the iPhone version of their service. What’s neat is that they have a very clear goal in mind for their mobile product development department:
Scotty T has an great overview of how MySQL interacts with WordPress and is worth a review, especially if you’re entering into the WordPress airspace for the first time. He really sums up the tension that exists between PHP developers and MySQL here: You would be surprised how many people I have interviewed for a job that think their PHP chops are great, but their MySQL, not so much. Many great WordPress developers I know have said the same thing. Not cool. Bad SQL can bring down your site! Forget crazy scaling challenges, basic WP Query usage can bring your site down […]
Yikes: Nearly 1% of websites built with a content management system (like WordPress or Joomla) are unknowingly exposing their database password to anyone who knows where to look. As reported by Feross Aboukhadijeh, he created a quick application affectionately called “CMSploit” that scanned the top 200,000 websites as ranked by Qauntcast and found that .011% are completely vulnerable. One step further, when he eliminated non-CMS sites he discovered that .77% showed publicly-visible config files to the websites database. Remember, this is just the top 100k sites – which means that not only are you possibly susceptible to this vulnerability but hundreds if not […]
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