Have a news tip or upcoming WordPress event you’d like to share, write us at [email protected]. News Highlights: Update Your Plugins (again): Until recently, 15 or more popular plugins (including Jetpack and WordPress SEO) were vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting. “The developers assumed that these functions would escape the user input for them, when it does not. This simple detail, caused many of the most popular plugins to be vulnerable to XSS.” How to avoid clients from hell: Brandon Yanofsky talks about clients from hell, and how you can avoid them, and make freelancing fun again. Adding IPTC’s camera metadata to WordPress 4.2: What it took […]
This Week In WordPress: 04/13/2015
Have a news tip or upcoming WordPress event you’d like to share, write us at [email protected]. News Highlights: GoDaddy acquires Elto: Elto, a marketplace for WordPress devs, has joined GoDaddy to work on something new. Sounds interesting. WP Revision List: A new plugin for easily seeing previous versions of a WordPress post or page. Like version control for your blog. FBI warns of WordPress attacks: The FBI issued a warning about ISIS (or ISIS sympathetic hackers) using WP plugin vulnerabilities to hack sites. More secure passwords: Wordfence announced a new plugin that allows admins to verify that all their users […]
This Week In WordPress: 04/06/2015
Have a news tip or upcoming WordPress event you’d like to share, write us at [email protected]. News Highlights: StoryCorps: Great little story about how StoryCorps.me uses WordPress to power their mobile apps and more. Cache Buddy: A new plug increases the cacheability of your site by minimizing how many logged in users appear logged in to WordPress. WordPress blocked in Turkey: Last week we talked about WordPress sites being blocked in Pakistan, this week the site is now being blocked in Turkey. Surprisingly, this ban is the result of an argument between two professors. When blocking one post didn’t work, the Turkish courts […]
This Week In WordPress: 03/30/2015
Just in case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the latest happenings from this past week. If you have a news tip you’d like to share, write us at [email protected]. News Highlights: Writing 101: WordPress’s Writing 101 returns this April. Sign up and join the daily writing challenge. WP Engine raises funding: Why North Bridge invested $25m in a WordPress business. Sites block in Pakistan: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has started temporarily (hopefully) blocking all WordPress sites. RevSlider exploit leaves thousands of sites hacked: “Cybercriminals have been leveraging a vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin to redirect the visitors of thousands […]
This week in WordPress: March 16, 2015
Just in case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the latest happenings from this past week. If you have a news tip you’d like to share, write us at [email protected]. WordPress 4.2 Beta 1: WordPress 4.2 Beta 1 was released. The software is still being tested, but you can set up a testing site and try out some of its fun new features. Blind SQL Injection vulnerability was discovered in WordPress SEO by Yoast: A vulnerability was discovered in the popular WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin. An update was released, and users of the plugin were advised to update immediately. WordPress 80/20 Problem: Josh […]
This week in WordPress: A weekly news roundup
Just in case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the latest happenings from this past week. If you have a news tip you’d like to share, write us at [email protected]. W25K DMCA win: WordPress wins $25,00 from DMCA takedown abuser. Introducing the WordPress security whitepaper: WordPress published its WordPress security whitepaper, which includes analysis of WordPress core software development and security processes. On WordPress history: The first version of Siobhan McKeown’s book on WordPress history is finished. GoChat.US: Developers, this is what happens when you use every css scrolling and animation effect at the same time. Shop Plugins: Shop Plugins is a marketplace focused on eCommerce […]
A quick overview of HTTP/2: what it is, what to expect, and what it means for you
Things move incredibly quickly in the online world. Articles can become obsolete in under a year, and in many cases just a few short months. With this in mind, it’s really quite surprising that the internet’s underlying protocol, HTTP, has not been updated for over 15 years—a lifetime in internet terms. HTTP, the abbreviation for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, is most familiarly used at the start of a website address: http://www.example.com. However, its real purpose is to control how your web browser communicates with the server of the website you’re visiting. Of course, websites have come a long way from the basic, […]
FCC ruling on net neutrality: the winners, the losers, and what this means
I recently wrote an article here on Torque discussing my thoughts on net neutrality and the possible outcomes of the recent vote by the FCC. Now that the FCC has voted, let’s turn our attention to the winners and losers from the new rules. Winners In short, the vote was the FCC’s way of saying “no soup for you” to parties interested in throttling Internet traffic and to the proponents of pay-to-play fast lanes on the information superhighway. This is a good thing. I like the idea of the little guy getting a fair shake at accessing and disrupting the market […]
This week in WordPress: A weekly news roundup
Just in case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the latest happenings from this past week. If you have a news tip you’d like to share, write us at [email protected]. Twitter Plugin: Twitter officially released its first WordPress plugin. Updated version stats: Andrew Nacin, WordPress lead developer, announced a major update to WordPress version stats for PHP, MySQL, and WordPress. #TheDress: Developers, do you see black and blue or white and gold? Best practices and SOPs: Josh Pollock talks about how to define best practices and standard operating procedures for your WordPress business. WordPress.com and Bitcoin: Matt Mullenweg addresses the discussion surrounding WordPress.com and Bitcoin. […]
This week in WordPress: A weekly news roundup
Just in case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the latest happenings from this past week. If you have a news tip you’d like to share, write us at [email protected]. WordPress 4.1.1 maintenance release: On Wednesday, WordPress 4.1.1 was released, fixing 21 bugs found in version 4.1. Andy Adams discusses how the WordPress talent shortage might be a problem: The demand for WordPress developers is u. Andy Adams speculates that a reason for this talent shortage may be accredited to the fact that WordPress developers, when compared to Drupal devs or Ruby on Rails devs, for example, are actually paid considerably less. GravityView Plugin is […]
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