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Doc Pop’s News Drop: Automattic closing its San Francisco office?

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April 24, 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. On episode #101 of The Stack Overflow Podcast, Matt Mullenweg discusses the possibility of shutting down Automattic’s beautiful office in San Francisco. According to this listing, it sounds like the Automattic “Lounge” hit the market on April 8th for about $1,000,000 a year. Love WordPress news but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop! On the hunt for a new office in San Francisco? It sounds like Automattic’s office on […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Matt’s First Quarter Check-in

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April 17, 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. A quick breakdown of Matt Mullenweg’s recent “First Quarter Check-In” on WordPress.org. You can also watch our early review of the new Gutenberg editor here. Love WordPress news but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. We are 7 months away from The State of The WordPress speech at WordCamp US, but Matt Mullenweg dropped a little glimpse of what’s happening so far in a recent blog post titled “First […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: A WordPress “Skill” for Amazon’s Alexa

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April 11, 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 Blog Helper, a cool Alexa app by Christopher Finke that allows you to interact with your WordPress site via voice commands. Love WordPress news, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop! Ever since it’s release, people have been creating weird and wonderful apps for Amazon’s Alexa device. But one of the newest Alexa apps might be of particular interest to WordPressers. Christopher Finke, an […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Big changes to the Plugin Repository

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April 3, 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 the new features and look of the WordPress plugin repository. Love WordPress news but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop If you’ve visited the Plugin Repository this week, you may have noticed some big changes to the site. The WordPress team has been working hard on this new version of the site and I think it looks great. If you visit WordPress.org/plugins the first […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Sucuri gets acquired by GoDaddy

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March 27, 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. Everyone is talking about GoDaddy’s newest acquisition, Sucuri Security, including us. This week we talk about that and Mike Little’s new role over at Human Made. If you haven’t seen it before, be sure to check out our brief history of GoDaddy acquisitions video. Love WordPress news, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. GoDaddy has been chomping up many WordPress companies in the last few years, but it […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Collaborative Editing Coming to WordPress

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March 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. According to a recent blog post by Matt Mullenweg, we may see collaborative editing tools in an upcoming version of WordPress. Love WordPress News but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. On last week’s episode, we talked about a new Chrome plugin that allows you to easily import Google Docs into the WordPress editor. A task which sounds easy, but usually ends up in a lot of frustration. Writing […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Clef 2 Factor Authentication shuts down

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March 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. Clef, the popular two factor authentication plugin for WordPress, is shutting down. This week, Doc talks about why that’s a bummer and what plugins you can try instead. Love WordPress news but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. Clef Two Factor authentication was a plugin that allowed you to sign into your WordPress site by pointing your smartphone camera towards a symbol displayed on the computer screen and Clef […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: What motivates WordPress spammers?

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March 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. Ever wonder what hackers hope to achieve after gaining control of a site? Wordfence just published a fantastic article about how one very prolific group of hackers were using WordPress sites to drive traffic to counterfeit NFL sportswear. We talk about that analysis and more in this week’s video. Love WordPress News, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. I finally installed Sucuri a few weeks back and immediately […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: The Gutenberg Editor

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February 27, 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. Tired of only having two editing options in WordPress? This week we review the brand new “Gutenberg editor” for WordPress. This is an experimental new block-based editor that may work it’s way into a future version of WordPress. Try the prototype here and let us know which is your favorite version. Love WordPress News, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. There are currently two editing options for creating […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Do We Need Key Signed Updates?

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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 […]

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