The largest update so far in the history of Pippin Williamson‘s Easy Digital Downloads plugin was released this morning – and the epic list of revisions and additions is intense. As he shares, the biggest change is the checkout page which sees a much improved user interface and experience. A new RESTful API has also been introduced with new fee classes, improved ability to provide discount codes, reporting and export capabilities, and smaller less noticeable changes. Many of this community is already aware of the quality work that Pippin does and are already updating as we speak – if you […]
Episode 004 – Tony Perez
Show Notes Host Tony Perez was defense contractor for many years. In 2009, he was introduced to STIG compliance. Vulnerability scanning and such started to come onto his radar. He started helping with Sucuri with Dre in 2011. Tony is now the COO at Sucuri Inc. He can be found on Twitter at @Perezbox and online at Perezbox.com and Tony On Security. Sippin’ On Brad- Grape Vodka and Club Soda Dre- Dos Equis Tony- Water Pressing Topics 2012 Web Malware Trends Report Summary. Sucuri posted its 2012 malware trends summary, where they deem that only 74% of sites are healthy. […]
Common Plugin Questions: Amount, Speed, Security
I get pinged at least once a week, if not a few times during a week, about plugins – which ones they should use, download, and how many a blog or WordPress website should have. Ultimately, there isn’t any exact science to these questions but there are some general principles that seem to be agreed upon by those who work with WordPress professionally. I wanted to post simply here so as to direct people to this so they can have their questions answered succinctly, especially around performance and security. The question usually is asked like this:
You and Hello Dolly @ WordCamp Atlanta?
We’re stoked as WordCamp Atlanta (it’s completely sold out!) is just a few days away – it’s getting hot and heavy as we’re preparing not only our talks (most of this team is scheduled to speak) but also organize the event and speaker / VIP party after. Yikes – lots to do and lots to get ready. Even my wife is working (hah…) and coordinating the afterparty – it’s been a rough couple nights if I can be completely honest. In addition, we’re expecting more of our staff that are from out of town to show up too, including our […]
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 3.12.2013
Happy Tuesday everyone! I’ve got lots of new and updated plugins to share with you for today’s roundup. It’s great to see plugins that extending Easy Digital Downloads like Easy Digital Downloads HSS Extension for Streaming Video. The next few posts from me will be coming from Atlanta! I’ll be hanging with my fellow 8BIT teammates and will be attending WordCamp Atlanta 2013. Anyone else going?
WP Smush.it Shutters, Looking for New Lead
With over 334,000 downloads WP Smush.it has become a staple within many WordPress developer circles – it’s an incredible plugin that has helped thousands save space by optimizing images – lossless, by the way. It stripped meta data from jpegs, optimized compression, converted certain gifs to indexed pngs, and even stripped un-used colors from indexed images. Sadly though it seems that it’s time for the original author, Alex Dunae, to move on:
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 3.11.2013
I hope everyone had a great weekend! Today is new plugin Monday since they completely dominate the roundup. A few that quickly jump out to me are the Lazy Load for Videos and the GetGit. Do any of the ones after the jump jump out to you?
Inside Scoop: Fundify, a Crowd Funding Theme and Plugin?
It seems like it may be so. We got an inside look into an upcoming plugin and theme that can help others using WordPress to crowd fund/source there next great project. It looks like they’ve created both a theme and an add-on via Pippin Williamson’s plugin Easy Digital Downloads and it might just be amazing. So we touched based with Adam Pickering and he gave us a real 411. Check it:
High DPI Post Format Icons via Natko Hasic
I’ve been taking a look at the new Genericons so as to see if I want to use them in any new and upcoming projects and as a result I’ve spent some time also looking for alternatives. Icons for the web and mobile devices as well as Retina display use cases have increased in popularity and I wanted to make sure I could stay up to date as possible. Man, do you remember when it was so much more simple? Sheesh! Well, Natko Hasić dropped us a line last weekend and let us know that as a WordPress designer and developer he […]
Brad Parbs Adds Hooks to Starter Theme
Brad Parbs sent us a note that I thought was neat enough to cover as the Theme Hook Alliance continues to grow it’s influence around the WordPress neighborhood. And besides, he told us that we should share it – and so, we’re sharing it (besides, he’s a “rockstar,” at least via his own website)! Recently he just added all of the hooks from the Alliance into the starter theme, called “_s,” to make everyone happy.
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