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Episode 33: Dreless in Sea.tt.le

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February 20, 2014

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Show Notes Host Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress and the founder of Automattic and Audrey Capital. Matt can be found on Twitter @PhotoMatt and online at Ma.tt. What They’re Sippin’ On: Brad: Pyramid Hefeweizen Dre: Maker’s Mark Matt: Hint Watermelon Water Pressing Topics: Matt takes the role of CEO. He is excited about the day-to-day aspects of running the company, growing it from 200 to 2,000 employees. Matt led development for version 3.8. He said it was fun to work with new people. Last year, Matt purchased WP Tavern because Jeff had incredible knowledge about WordPress, and it allowed […]

The Day WordPress Took Back the Internet, Again

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February 10, 2014

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With each new leak getting consecutively worse, stories of NSA surveillance have caused quite an uproar recently online. We’ve gone from gawking at amateurish PowerPoint presentations explaining the level at which PRISM operates, to hearing about government sponsored Malware convincing the head of Microsoft to refer to the NSA as a serious and persistent threat to internet security. And headlines continue to reach new levels of absurdity with events like the NSA phone-tapping the German Chancellor and creating tools for hacking Cisco, Juniper and Wahwei routers with ease. It’s time, once again, to take action. Tomorrow, on Feb 11, people from all corners of the web (and […]

If You Wouldn’t Say It in Person, Would You Say It Online?

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January 27, 2014

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This question is at the center of the recent security breach involving Disqus, a widely used comment hosting service, and Gravatar, a service owned by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg’s company Automattic. Gravatar allows users to maintain a consistent profile picture across websites enabling a Gravatar plugin. Until recently, Disqus enabled Gravatar which uses an MD5 hash, an algorithm designed in 1991, to mask the email addresses associated with each Gravatar account. Gravatar’s MD5 hash has been proven to be easily hackable. In December, a group of investigative journalists at Sweden’s Researchgruppen was able to de-anonymize the identities of thousands of […]

Why We Redesigned WP Valet

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January 22, 2014

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Why We Decided to Rebrand Original Branding: When we launched in May of 2012 (and up until a few weeks ago), our original branding consisted of a darker color scheme, as you can see above. This was intentional. Our main reasoning was to convey the feelings of sophistication, security, and efficiency that the color black provides to ensure our potential customers felt safe. Specifically: Sophistication Glamor Security Emotional safety Efficiency Substance Our main goal was to separate WP Valet from other services with similar offerings, and to specifically target Enterprise-level customers. Our New Branding: One of the most obvious reasons […]

WordPress for Beginners: Too Many Choices?

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January 16, 2014

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WordPress is the world’s favorite choice when it comes to creating a website, and there are various reasons behind its popularity. Among such reasons, ease of use and easier customization stand tall as the most common ones. Fortunately, for beginners, getting started with WordPress is not rocket science. It is relatively simple to set up a small website or blog with WordPress. And then after you’re set up, you can do many things to personalize or customize your blog—choose a theme of your liking, install plugins for additional functionality, tweak settings, and so on. All said and done, if you are […]

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