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This Week In WordPress: 03/30/2015

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March 30, 2015

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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 […]

Staying safe and DRY with register_meta()

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Josh Pollock

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March 27, 2015

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I know this is probably going to upset, but this is the best way to save an input from a form to a post meta field in WordPress: update_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘_slug_number_field’, $_POST[ ‘number_field’ ] ); And yes, on its own that line of code is a terrible, no good idea. Most likely, you mentally rewrote it to something like this: if ( isset( $_POST[ ‘number_field’ ] ) && 0 < absint( $_POST[ ‘number_field’ ] ) ) { update_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘_slug_number_field’, (int) $_POST[ ‘number_field’ ] ); } Before I discuss how to make that first line of code acceptable, I […]

This Week In WordPress: 03/23/2015

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March 23, 2015

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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: Jetpack 3.4 update: The new Jetpack update provides protection from brute force attacks. Frito Lay’s custom project management app: Frito Lay’s custom built project management tool was built with WordPress Julie’s WordPress training: Julie Kuehl is on a mission to become a full-time WordPress developer. Cart abandonment and WooCommerce: Tips for reducing eCommerce “cart abandonment.” Remove Hello Dolly: A pull request was made to remove “Hello Dolly” from the […]

Q&A with Wired.com’s Jake Spurlock

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March 19, 2015

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Originally launched in 1994 as “Hotwired,” Wired.com has grown into a family of successful blogs that reports on current and future trends in technology. Early this month, Wired announced their first major site overhaul in 8 years. We were fortunate enough to talk with Jake Spurlock, one of the software engineers on the project, about what it was like to migrate 17 active blogs to one single WordPress install. Here’s what he had to say: Torque: First off, can you tell us a little bit about what you do at Wired?? Jake Spurlock: I’m a software engineer at Condé Nast, a “premier […]

This week in WordPress: March 16, 2015

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March 16, 2015

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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 […]

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