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This Week In WordPress 06/29/2015

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June 29, 2015

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Have a news tip or upcoming event you’d like to see in our weekly WordPress roundup, write us at [email protected]. News Highlights: Help name this column – Looking around the web we’ve noticed there are already a few “This Week In WordPress” columns. We thought it’d be fun to find a new name for our weekly WordPress column and would love your help! Share your ideas for a new column name in the comments and if we use your idea we’ll send you one of our hot new Torque mugs. WPezDeveloper – In an effort to keep WordPress tutorials current and open, Mark […]

This Week In WordPress: 05/18/2015

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May 18, 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: In Defense of WordPress: With all the recent coverage of XSS vulnerabilities, Mattias Geniar asks the question why WordPress doesn’t get more credit for how it handled those updates. Proposed Password Changes for 4.3: Mark Jaquith confirmed that WordPress 4.3 will see an overhaul in the way passwords are generated. WordPress Essential Training on Lynda.com: In celebration of 100,000 views, Lynda.com has made their WordPress essential training tutorials free until June 18th. Easter Eggs in May: Go to webdevstudios.com and type the letters W, D, and S, […]

This Week In WordPress: 05/11/2015

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May 11, 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: LoopConf Videos: Couldn’t make it to last week’s LoopConf? Great news, all 21 hours of talks are freely available online! The Trojan Emoji: Speaking of LoopConf, Andrew Nacin gave a fun and in-depth talk titled “Anatomy of a Critical Security Bug” in which he discusses a vulnerability fix that was added under the “guise of Emoji support.” DOM-Based XSS Vulnerability: Sucuri recently published info on a DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could affect any theme or plugin that uses an example.html file, including the Jetpack plugin and WordPress’s TwentyFifteen […]

This Week In WordPress: 05/04/2015

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May 4, 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: Emoji: WordPress 4.2 now supports emoji (even in URLs!) Here’s a clever example used to show the history of copyright in the U.S. The real issue with ThemeForest: Brandon Yanofsky weighs the pros and cons of ThemeForest. There’s lots of great discussion on this topic happening in the comments. 2015 state of open source: Shaun’s write up of what open source looks like so far in 2015. WordPress memes: Bob Dunn shares a roundup of WordPress memes. Did he miss any good ones? May […]

This Week In WordPress: 04/27/2015

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April 27, 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: Inside Automattic’s hiring process: How Automattic hires most of its remote employees without a single voice conversation. WP Engine search: WP Engine Labs takes a crack at solving search on WordPress sites. m.website.com: XKCD’s take on mobile optimized sites. First impressions for 4.2: WordPress 4.2 is here. Here are some of our early impressions. WordPress 4.2 stored XSS: Just a couple days into its release, and researchers have discovered an exploit in which WordPress commenters can leave malicious JavaScript to take control of a server. WordPress 4.1.2 security release: A […]

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 […]

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 […]

This Week In WordPress: 04/06/2015

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April 6, 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: 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

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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 […]

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 […]

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