One of the best things about WordPress is the fact that it’s entirely free to use, whether you end up on WordPress.com or go the self-hosted route. And yet despite this fact it can still be an incredibly daunting task for newbies to get started – and I’m talking about true newbies. Especially if you’re a small business owner who’s looking to rock out that first business site on a very limited budget and don’t have time to vet out every single issue that you might have before jumping in, the task can be a bit scary. Thankfully there are sites […]
GoDaddy: WordPress Security Breach? Yikes.
This video shows it (not so clearly) that after a fresh install of WordPress on a newly purchased domain that links within the users accounts actually jump to another user’s admin and information! According to the film author:
Lance Willett: Finding the Perfect Theme
You don’t always get a presentation from an Automattician like Lance Willett and this one’s a great one to pass on to friends or new-ish WordPress users who might be looking for that “perfect” theme. You see, Lance is like the guy when it comes to WordPress Theme “wranglin’” as they call it and is someone that our team at 8BIT has worked with for the past year or so. He’s got a neat sense of humor too, but that’s entirely off subject. Now, we all know that there is no such thing as a “perfect” theme but the point of the […]
Swag for WP Developers: WordPress Up!
Looking for useful <code>developer</code> tools? Looking for a list of tools that will give you that quick edge to get started or help your neighboring WP developer, like version control, unit testing, IDE bundles, configuration scripts, and more? Then you should join the folks over at WordPress Gear, which is a community-driven system via GitHub, and make it the best darn repo ever. Fork it, if you want:
ZippyKid Requires Code Audit for Some Customers
Or at least for the high-traffic websites that are considering using ZippyKid‘s hosted solution. This makes a lot of sense for a number of reasons, which Vid Luther shares in his post. One of the neatest takeaways is the fact that they aren’t charging anything in addition for this initiative and he explains that it’s everybody’s responsibility for a better web: Sloppy code on high traffic websites compounds the problem at an exponential rate. Think about it: one page request that makes 1000 calls to the database, multiplied by 1000 requests. We want to make the web a faster place, we’re […]
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