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Panama Papers Leak May Have Been Due To Outdated WordPress And Drupal Sites

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April 6, 2016

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The Panama Papers leak is one of the biggest data leaks to date, involving over 100 news publications and 2.6 terabytes of information. Forbes discovered the Panamanian law firm that was hacked was using a site run on a three-month-old version of WordPress. Forbes also noted that the portal customers use to access their data was allegedly running a three-year-old version of Drupal, and the site contained at least 25 vulnerabilities. WP Tavern, however, noted that Forbes’ findings aren’t exactly correct.  According to the article, “While looking at the site today, I found that the firm’s WordPress-powered site is currently […]

State Of The Woo 2016

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April 6, 2016

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WordPress founder and CEO of WooCommerce owner Automattic Matt Mullenweg kicked off WooConf 2016 in Austin with the first ever State of the Woo address, during which he shared an insightful look at WooCommerce’s past, present, and future. The Woo Journey WooCommerce, From Zero To Hiro More than 37 percent of all eCommerce sites use WooCommerce, making it a de facto in the industry. It hasn’t always been this way, though. Mullenweg pointed out that when it started in Sept. 2011, it had zero downloads, six official themes, and only nine official extensions. Just one year later, in 2012, however, the plugin […]

Level Up Your WordPress Development Skills With These 7 Courses

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April 5, 2016

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Most in the WordPress community are self-taught. They played around with their first WordPress website until they broke something, and worked on it until it was fixed. Doing this over and over again, they became extremely proficient. And it is probably the best way to learn. However, you can kickstart your learning, or even augment it, with some online courses. I’m going to show you some of the courses I took that helped me level up my WordPress development skills, as well as some I plan to take in the near future. I’ve divided them by the each language/skill, and […]

Everything You Need To Know About WooCommerce

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April 4, 2016

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If you have a WordPress eCommerce site, then you’re probably using WooCommerce, the most popular eCommerce plugin. Powering 37 percent of all eCommerce sites, the plugin is so popular that it even warrants its own annual conference. The site boasts the plugin is “the world’s favorite eCommerce solution that gives you complete control to sell anything.” Because the plugin is so robust, it can be challenging to understand and effectively utilize all of its amazing features. In this post, we have compiled a comprehensive digest on WooCommerce, which includes all of our guides and articles related to the eCommerce plugin so […]

Comparing Gulp And Grunt For WordPress Developers

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April 4, 2016

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In the world of build scripts, Gulp and Grunt have become quite popular, and each has its own share of proponents, critics, loyalists, and fans. Both Gulp and Grunt serve more or less a similar purpose: both can be used to automate certain tasks, as well as can be extended by means of plugins. Plus, they both rely on Node.js That said, which one beats the other? Obviously, there can’t be a clear winner for this answer, but comparing one with the other, which script fares better and in what aspects? In this article, we attempt to answer this question. Comparing […]

Plugin Madness: The Semi-Finalists Speak

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April 1, 2016

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Last month, we pit the 64 most popular WordPress plugins against each other in Torque’s 2016 Plugin Madness. We have witnessed several upsets along the way, and some of WordPress’s most beloved plugins, like SEO by Yoast, Akismet, and Jetpack by WordPress.com, have met defeat. We have received more than 15,000 votes so far, and, with only a few weeks left in the competition, it’s been narrowed to just four plugins — The Events Calendar, WooCommerce, Advanced Custom Fields, and Wordfence Security. We reached out to our semi-finalists to see if they had any advice for creating successful plugins and […]

How WordPress Sites Get Hacked (And What to Do About It)

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March 30, 2016

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Having your WordPress site hacked is one of the biggest nightmares for any website owner. From one moment to the next, your site is shut down. Traffic plummets and all the energy, effort, time, and money you put into your site is on the brink of being lost entirely. Finding and fixing the problem is hard work, however, not as hard as winning back your audience’s trust or getting your site off spam blacklists. While getting hacked is never pleasant, it is much more common than you would think. The ascent of WordPress has painted a large bullseye on the […]

My Favorite Development Plugins Of 2016 (And A Few Other Tools)

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March 29, 2016

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We’re just a few months into 2016. As a WordPress freelancer, work has been increasing as businesses begin making changes to their sites. All of that work can get quite overwhelming. So today’s article is all about making your workflow more efficient with some awesome WordPress development plugins (and a few tools). Here they are, in no particular order. 1. WP Migrate DB Pro Ever since I discovered WP Migrate DB Pro, my developer life has never been the same. WP Migrate DB Pro lets you push and pull databases between sites. Perfect for migrations, cloning, or managing databases between development, […]

Learning JavaScript At WordCamp Miami

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March 24, 2016

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Last month, WordCamp Miami featured a track completed dedicated to learning JavaScript. This full-day track covered everything JavaScript — from the fundamentals to more in-depth talks on frameworks — and was inspired by Matt Mullenweg’s 2015 State of the Word homework assignment to “learn JavaScript, deeply.” I presented on AngularJS basics and how to use Angular with the WordPress REST API. As someone who has wanted to see WordPress move towards more dynamic interfaces for a long time now, seeing this interest in API-driven JavaScript interfaces is very exciting. In the past, JavaScript has been more of an afterthought, mainly using […]

GitHub In 2016

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March 23, 2016

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GitHub is the biggest code host in the world, with more than 31 million repositories. For WordPress, it’s fundamental. It allows WordPress developers and users from around the world to easily collaborate on projects, which can be created and tested extensively all in one place. It’s been an eventful year for the repository hosting service, and it’s only March. From adding emoji reactions, to the White House enlisting the company’s help, a lot has happened in just the last few months. This article takes a look at some of these milestones. The Open Letter In January, a group of GitHub […]

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