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. WordCamp Europe is only a few weeks away, but we are already thinking about WordCamp US in Nashville. In this week’s video we talk about the latest news with WCEU and WCUS. WordCamp US call for speakers WordCamp Europe site Amazon Translate Love WordPress news but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop. WordCamp Europe is only a couple of weeks away? Have you started […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: Hijacked Jetpack Plugins via WordPress.com
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 hijacked WordPress.com accounts, WordPress’s 15th birthday, and more WordCamp Europe news. WordPress Milestones WordPress Jetpack infection (Wordfence.com) WordCamp Europe 2018 Love WordPress News but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop. This week we’ll talk about WordPress’s 15th birthday and WordCamp Europe, but first: Did you know that even if you are self hosting your own WordPress website, it can […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: Mass Deletion of Unused WordPress Plugins
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. There are over 9,000 plugins that have been approved, but the developers never uploaded the code. It’s believed that many of these developers submitted their plugins just for free security review or just to squat on a plugin name. So the WordPress Plugin Review Team have announced they will start deleting these “unused” plugins from the repository. This week we’ll talk about a few of those unused plugins plus we’ll have […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: WordPress Plugins For The Gutenberg Editor
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. The Gutenberg editor isn’t officially part of WordPress core, but there are already several plugins to help add to it. This week we talk about some of those plugins and check in with our friends at WordCamp Europe for the latest news. Love WordPress News but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop! The Gutenberg editor is a new block based editor for WordPress. Though […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: WordPress 4.9.6 Adds Privacy and GDPR Features
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. The GDPR Compliance team has been working hard on adding new privacy tools to WordPress. The current beta release for 4.9.6 has many of these features in place. The final version of WordPress 4.9.6 is expected to be released before the GDPR goes into effect on May 25th. In this week’s News Drop video, we go through some of those new features. Install the WordPress Beta Tester plugin to give it […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: How To Make Your WordPress Site GDPR Compliant
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. In this week’s News Drop we talk about the best WordPress plugins to help you reach GDPR compliance by the May 25th deadline as well as what the WordPress core team is doing to make WordPress compliant too. We also hear some behind the scenes news from WordCamp Europe about some of the GDPR workshops and sessions at WCEU. Love WordPress news, but hate reading? My name is Doc and this […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: 5 Ways You Are Breaking Accessibility On Your Site
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 this week’s News Drop video, we talk about 5 ways you may accidentally be breaking your site for some users. Love WordPress news, but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop. The web is a great resource for billions of users all around the world. It provides access to information, connects communities, and empowers people like me to feel a little more comfortable when […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: Plugin Madness 2018 Recap
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. Congrats to Smush Image Compression for winning Torque’s 2018 Plugin Madness competition! Thanks to everyone who nominated and voted this year, it was a huge success. You can read more about the results here. You can also learn more about WordCamp Europe here. Love WordPress news but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop! We’ll talk about how events like WordCamp Europe can afford to […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: Flipping the Script on Hackers with the Coin Auth Plugin
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. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to flip the script on hackers and run cryptomining software on their computers? In this week’s video we talk about an app called Coin Auth which does just that. We also talk about WordPress version 4.9.5 and we hear some great news about WordCamp Europe. Love WordPress news, but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop. This week […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: Are Developers Responsible When a Plugin Breaks a Site?
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. There’s a great conversation on r/Wordpress (lowercasing is their theirs) about what happens when a plugin update breaks a clients site. Is it the developers job to fix it for free or should they include a monthly maintenance fee in their contract? We also share some news on the semi-semi-final round of Plugin Madness and hear some great news about WordCamp Europe. Love WordPress news but hate reading? My name is […]
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