Doc Pop’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. It is the final week of Torque’s Plugin Madness 2019 and we are down to our two finalists. Be sure to vote today for your favorite on PluginMadness.com. We also have a great new update from WordCamp Europe and news about WP Campus 2019. Love WordPress news but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop. This is it, the final week of our Plugin […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: Should Plugins Alter Search Results?
Doc Pop’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 a recent Jetpack update which adds feature suggestions to activate a Jetpack feature to the top of search results on the plugin repository. Doc talks about why they did it and what it means for the future of ads in the WordPress dashboard. Since this video was recorded, a newer version of Jetpack has been released to make these suggestions easier to […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: WordCamp US Call For Speakers
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 […]
Torque Toons: Where’s my Jetpack?
But seriously, the new Jetpack update looks pretty awesome.
Jetpack Update 4.0.4 Fixes Security Vulnerabilities
At the beginning of May, Jetpack released 4.0.3 to fix a security issue. Now, the plugin has offered another update, 4.0.4, targeted at three more vulnerabilities. The changelog notes security fixes to post by email, an XSS vulnerability in the Likes module, and the REST API/Contact form. The update also improved features like developing on Kinsta, Jetpack for multisite, and connection process. There are also a variety of bugs that are taken care of improved compatibility. 4.0.4 also offers better access to customer support. There is now a contact form in admin that goes directly to the customer service team, […]
Jetpack Launches New Code Reference Site
Jetpack this week launched developer.jetpack.com, a new developer resource that aims to make it easier for developers to use hooks to customize the Jetpack plugin. The code reference site is the first centralized resource for developers to search for Jetpack hooks and learn how they work. “For each hook, you’ll be able to discover the parameters you can use, as well as some examples for a lot of the hooks,” the announcement said. To use, simply navigate to developer.jetpack.com and type a specific action, hook, filter, or feature into the search bar. For example, a search for ‘jetpack_open_graph_tags’ will bring you to a resource page […]
Lessons we can learn from Jetpack, and how it’s helped WordPress succeed
Of the many gifts that Automattic has given this community, Jetpack is definitely one of the greatest. Jetpack is an all-in-one suite of tools, including services that run on WordPress.com’s servers, for free, that couldn’t be handled by the kind of $5 per month shared hosting packages many users start with. If it wasn’t for this plugin helping to ease the onboarding of new users, WordPress would not be where it is today. Automattic has gained a lot from this: they are a company, with a simple objective to make money, pay salaries, and provide a quality return on investment […]
The ultimate guide to Jetpack
When it comes to WordPress plugins, we all have our favorites. It would probably take you only a few seconds to come up with at least five plugins you install on virtually every website you create. You little nerd, you! I’m no different. Among my all-time favorites is Jetpack by WordPress.com. Initially installed on one of my sites for its excellent stats and analytics feature, by now it has a fixed position on my go-to list of plugins. However, even though I use it on a regular basis, the other day I realized that my knowledge of Jetpack is not […]
The Best Web Analytics Tools for WordPress
“What gets measured, gets managed.” -Peter Drucker Imagine you wanted to visit a new restaurant on the opposite side of town. Although it’s in an area of the city you haven’t visited before, you understand its location from the map. Getting there should be completely doable with some trial and error, and maybe asking for the way once of twice. No biggie. Now imagine when you leave the house, somebody blindfolded you, spun you around a few times and then wished you good luck before sending you off to find said restaurant. You’re left groping blindly through the streets trying to […]
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