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Have a news tip or upcoming event you’d like to see in our This Week In WordPress roundup, write us at [email protected]. News Highlights: Sucuri launches Load Time Tester: A free performance tool that assesses how fast your website is loading globally. Theme Review Crackdowns: The WordPress theme review team will start cracking down on themes that break the “no content-creation” guideline. OneNote for WordPress: On May 22, Microsoft announced a new partnership between WordPress and its digital note-taking app, OneNote. 2015 WordPress Revenue Statistics: Scott Bolinger has compiled a list of publicly available data on various WordPress business models and revenue statistics. Struggles Developing a […]
Contextly is website exploration tool that makes it easy to keep your readers clicking through your site. The plugin, which works with WordPress and Drupal, automatically displays related articles at the bottom of each post and makes it easy for bloggers and editors to quickly link to previous articles without having to open any other tabs or pages. We were happy to talk with Ryan Singel, the CEO and co-founder of Contextly, about how his own experiences as a WordPress blogger which led him to create this special tool.
Have a news tip or upcoming WordPress event you’d like to share? Write us at [email protected]. News Highlights: In Defense of WordPress: With all the recent coverage of XSS vulnerabilities, Mattias Geniar asks the question why WordPress doesn’t get more credit for how it handled those updates. Proposed Password Changes for 4.3: Mark Jaquith confirmed that WordPress 4.3 will see an overhaul in the way passwords are generated. WordPress Essential Training on Lynda.com: In celebration of 100,000 views, Lynda.com has made their WordPress essential training tutorials free until June 18th. Easter Eggs in May: Go to webdevstudios.com and type the letters W, D, and S, […]
Have a news tip or upcoming WordPress event you’d like to share? Write us at [email protected]. News Highlights: LoopConf Videos: Couldn’t make it to last week’s LoopConf? Great news, all 21 hours of talks are freely available online! The Trojan Emoji: Speaking of LoopConf, Andrew Nacin gave a fun and in-depth talk titled “Anatomy of a Critical Security Bug” in which he discusses a vulnerability fix that was added under the “guise of Emoji support.” DOM-Based XSS Vulnerability: Sucuri recently published info on a DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could affect any theme or plugin that uses an example.html file, including the Jetpack plugin and WordPress’s TwentyFifteen […]
Have a news tip or upcoming WordPress event you’d like to share, write us at [email protected]. News highlights: Emoji: WordPress 4.2 now supports emoji (even in URLs!) Here’s a clever example used to show the history of copyright in the U.S. The real issue with ThemeForest: Brandon Yanofsky weighs the pros and cons of ThemeForest. There’s lots of great discussion on this topic happening in the comments. 2015 state of open source: Shaun’s write up of what open source looks like so far in 2015. WordPress memes: Bob Dunn shares a roundup of WordPress memes. Did he miss any good ones? May […]
A few weeks back, we Tweeted some news about the Turkish government blocking access to 60 million WordPress sites in an effort to block one single blog post written by a professor accusing another professor of plagiarism. Shortly after we heard from Barış Ünver, a 27-year-old web developer and Tuts+ author living in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. @TheTorqueMag WordPress is blocked too? Heh, it seems that we set the record today: Facebook, Twitter, WordPress… and even Google. — Baris Unver (EN) (@BarisUnver_EN) April 6, 2015 Torque: You mentioned some trouble you had back in 2010, could you tell us a […]
Have a news tip or upcoming WordPress event you’d like to share, write us at [email protected]. News Highlights: Inside Automattic’s hiring process: How Automattic hires most of its remote employees without a single voice conversation. WP Engine search: WP Engine Labs takes a crack at solving search on WordPress sites. m.website.com: XKCD’s take on mobile optimized sites. First impressions for 4.2: WordPress 4.2 is here. Here are some of our early impressions. WordPress 4.2 stored XSS: Just a couple days into its release, and researchers have discovered an exploit in which WordPress commenters can leave malicious JavaScript to take control of a server. WordPress 4.1.2 security release: A […]
Have a news tip or upcoming WordPress event you’d like to share, write us at [email protected]. News Highlights: Update Your Plugins (again): Until recently, 15 or more popular plugins (including Jetpack and WordPress SEO) were vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting. “The developers assumed that these functions would escape the user input for them, when it does not. This simple detail, caused many of the most popular plugins to be vulnerable to XSS.” How to avoid clients from hell: Brandon Yanofsky talks about clients from hell, and how you can avoid them, and make freelancing fun again. Adding IPTC’s camera metadata to WordPress 4.2: What it took […]
Have a news tip or upcoming WordPress event you’d like to share, write us at [email protected]. News Highlights: GoDaddy acquires Elto: Elto, a marketplace for WordPress devs, has joined GoDaddy to work on something new. Sounds interesting. WP Revision List: A new plugin for easily seeing previous versions of a WordPress post or page. Like version control for your blog. FBI warns of WordPress attacks: The FBI issued a warning about ISIS (or ISIS sympathetic hackers) using WP plugin vulnerabilities to hack sites. More secure passwords: Wordfence announced a new plugin that allows admins to verify that all their users […]
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