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February 20, 2017

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Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. Open source security expert, Scott Arciszewski, had a lot to say about WordPress’s auto-update feature. So he wrote it up on Medium and got a response, also on Medium, from WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg. Love WordPress news, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. Last week, on Valentine’s Day, Scott Arciszewski (archie-ziskee) wrote a legthy post on Medium about a possible WordPress vulnerability that could lead to every WordPress […]

Torque Toons: Update Your WP

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February 15, 2017

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With the recent set of hacked WordPress sites, it didn’t take long for a new update to come along and fix the problem. Now the community is trying to spread the word: Update, update, update! Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Critical WordPress REST API update

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February 13, 2017

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Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. Tony Perez, from Sucuri Security, joins us this week to talk about the recent set of hacks targeting the WP REST API. If you haven’t already, be sure you are running WordPress version 4.7.2 or higher to keep your site secure.

Torque Toons: WordPress Valentine’s Messages

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February 8, 2017

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Nerdy Valentine’s Day cards are great, right? For this week’s toon, we came up with a few WordPress themed Valentine’s candies. Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Day Of REST Diversity Scholarship

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February 6, 2017

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Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. This week we talk about A Day Of REST Boston’s new diversity scholarship, the corporate sponsored workshops at WordCamp Europe, and our new WordPress word search puzzle.

Torque Toons: WordPress Word Search

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February 1, 2017

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Eighteen terms in the letters below. WordPress is the theme, now print out the page (download pdf here) and give it a go. Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!

Doc Pop’s News Drop: 1st Annual Domain Swap

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January 30, 2017

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Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. This week, Doc visits the 1st Annual Domain Swap and talks with the organizer, Danielle Baskin, about unused domains.

Torque Toons: Let’s make a Twitterbot

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January 25, 2017

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Can we all agree these long Twitter threads are getting out of hand? How great would it be if there was a Twitterbot that just replied to anyone who was starting a long thread with simple instructions on how to install WordPress. Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Chrome’s “Not Secure” message and Replyable

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January 23, 2017

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Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. This week we talk about Postmatic’s new Replyable product and Google Chrome’s new “Not Secure” message for non HTTPS sites. Love WordPress news but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. This week, popular comment plugin, Postmatic rebranded the basic version of their plugin calling it Replyable. This stripped down “Software as a service” product only offers email commenting. The rest of the features, such as newsletter building and post […]

Torque Toons: Let’s Encrypt the Star Wars Galaxy

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