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This Week In WordPress: 04/20/2015

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April 20, 2015

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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 […]

SEO in-depth: Understanding and optimizing the WordPress robots.txt

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April 14, 2015

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When it comes to SEO, most people have a decent understanding of the basics. They know about keywords, and how they should show up in different places throughout their content. They have heard of on-page SEO, and have maybe even given WordPress SEO plugins a whirl. If you dive down into the nitty gritty of search engine optimization, however, there are a few rather obscure pieces of the puzzle that not everyone knows about—one of them being robots.txt files. What are robots.txt files and what are they used for? A robots.txt file is a text file that resides on your server. It contains […]

This Week In WordPress: 04/13/2015

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April 13, 2015

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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 […]

WordPress and entrepreneurs: a natural alliance?

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April 10, 2015

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WordPress is growing in size and stature at an ever-increasing rate. In fact, the headline figures show that around a quarter of the web is powered by our favorite CMS. But, why are people drawn to WordPress? Who are its users? Today I want to look specifically at one of the most prominent groups of WordPress users: entrepreneurs. Why are aspiring money-makers, perhaps more than any other group, choosing to power their business with WordPress? Here are five reasons why WordPress and entrepreneurs are a perfect fit. 1. Like-minded people There’s a well-known saying: “like attracts like”; this certainly applies here. WordPress […]

On the WordPress REST API: Reflecting on the past and looking to the future

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April 3, 2015

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If you go to a WordCamp and spend anytime around developers, it is hard to not notice the excitement around the new WordPress REST API. The REST API team just released version 1.2 of the plugin, which they are continuously developing with the goal of merging it into WordPress core. It’s a big project, much bigger than Ryan McCue—who, along with Rachel Baker, leads the project—ever thought it would be. I recently spoke with Ryan about the challenges of such a huge project and about the complexities in creating a “universal API” for every WordPress site, as well as the plans […]

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