Marie Dodson

WordCamp Europe Is This Weekend, Here’s What You Need To Know

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Marie Dodson

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June 21, 2016

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WordCamp Europe 2016 kicks off this Friday, June 24 in Vienna at MuseumsQuartier, and it’s expected to be the largest WordCamp to date. The three-day event features an impressive line-up of sessions Friday and Saturday, with a contributor day Sunday. The three tracks cover a range of topics from community and design to development, business and beyond, including: WordPress: the early years. A co-founder’s view — by WordPress co-founder Mike Little Using the REST API and JavaScript to create better WordPress interfaces — by engineer at Bocoup K. Adam White Managing a Local WordPress Community — by WordPress developer Sergey Biryukov Decision-Making […]

WooCommerce 2.6 “Zipping Zebra” Now Available

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Marie Dodson

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June 14, 2016

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WooCommerce 2.6 “Zipping Zebra” is now available for download. In anticipation of the WordPress REST API’s inclusion in core, WooCommerce 2.6 includes a new custom REST API, which leverages the WP REST API infrastructure and follows the same standards. This means that WooCommerce can be extended to add new data points and authentication methods. “The new API supports orders, customers, products, coupons, taxes, reports, and webhooks, both individually and in batches” the announcement said. “We’ll be extending this with additional endpoints in 2.7.” In addition to a new API, Zipping Zebra also features a fresh design for the “My Account” page, […]

EWWW Image Optimizer 2.8.5 Patches Critical Security Vulnerability

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Marie Dodson

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June 10, 2016

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Wordfence this week disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability found in the EWWW Image Optimizer plugin to the plugin’s author Shane Bishop. Bishop yesterday released a fix for the vulnerability, which can be found on WordPress.org. Users running the EWWW Image Optimizer plugin should update to version 2.8.5 immediately as this is a critical security update. According to Wordfence, the vulnerability, which was discovered by Wordfence Senior Developer Sean Murphy, allows hackers to exploit multisite installations to gain total control of a site. “The vulnerability can be exploited in a number of ways including creating a backdoor or taking a site down altogether,” […]

Update: WP Mobile Detector Patch Now Available

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Marie Dodson

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June 2, 2016

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*** Note: At this time the WP Mobile Detector plugin has been patched. Users should update to the most current version of the plugin as soon as possible. A vulnerability in WP Mobile Detector is being exploited in the wild and users are urged to remove the plugin as soon as possible, as there is currently no available update. “The vulnerability is very easy to exploit, all the attacker needs to do is send a request to resize.php or timthumb.php (yes, timthumb, in this case it just includes resize.php), inside the plugin directory with the backdoor URL,” Sucuri reported today. The exploit stems […]

Day Of REST Heads To ATX June 17

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Marie Dodson

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June 2, 2016

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The Austin WordPress Meetup Group will host the WPATX Day of REST Friday, June 17 in the classroom at WP Engine headquarters in downtown Austin. The event will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m, and will be chock-full of sessions and hands-on projects devoted to the WP REST API. Organized with the local WordPress community in mind, the WPATX Day of REST is a free event designed to teach attendees how to better work with and leverage the REST API. “This event is designed for our WordPress Developer and Practitioner Community who want to learn how to use the WordPress REST API and explore […]

Jetpack Launches New Code Reference Site

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June 2, 2016

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Jetpack this week launched developer.jetpack.com, a new developer resource that aims to make it easier for developers to use hooks to customize the Jetpack plugin. The code reference site is the first centralized resource for developers to search for Jetpack hooks and learn how they work. “For each hook, you’ll be able to discover the parameters you can use, as well as some examples for a lot of the hooks,” the announcement said. To use, simply navigate to developer.jetpack.com and type a specific action, hook, filter, or feature into the search bar. For example, a search for ‘jetpack_open_graph_tags’ will bring you to a resource page […]

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June 1, 2016

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Three WordPressers Share Their Stories

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Marie Dodson

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May 27, 2016

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In just 13 years, WordPress has evolved from a blogging service into a full-service platform that companies like The New York Times and Wired trust with their websites. Like all open-source software, the beating heart of WordPress is the community. Without it, it certainly wouldn’t be where it is today. Today we highlight three different WordPress stories that show exactly how the CMS is changing lives. Tom Ewer Tom Ewer is the Editor-in-Chief and Founder of WordCandy, an online publishing agency that specializes in producing content for WordPress businesses. Ewer first started writing about WordPress back May 2011 on his blog, […]

Sucuri Report: Outdated Plugins Leading Cause Of WordPress Site Hacks

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Marie Dodson

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May 25, 2016

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Three plugins were responsible for 25 percent of all WordPress hacks discovered in the first quarter, Sucuri said in its recently released report on post-hack actions by attackers. According to the report, outdated versions of RevSlider, GravityForms plugins, and TimThumb Script were the leading cause of WordPress site hacks and exploits. RevSlider accounted for the majority of vulnerabilities caused by the top three outdated plugins, which could in part be because it’s bundled within themes and other frameworks. “The biggest challenge with RevSlider however, is that it’s embedded within Themes and Frameworks and some website owners are unaware they have it installed until it has […]

WP Engine Launches ‘Page Performance,’ A Data-Driven Site Optimization Tool

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May 24, 2016

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WP Engine today launched Page Performance, a new tool that delivers data and actionable recommendations to help its customers improve the speed and performance of their websites. Starting today, Page Performance is available to all WP Engine customers at no additional cost. The new data-driven speed and performance tool is built into the WP Engine User Portal, making it easy for customers to generate performance reports for any webpage, regardless of what type of website it is or where it is hosted. “Page Performance runs a battery of tests to measure how your pages perform,” the blog post said. “From there, it delivers a […]

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