Us self-hosted folk have been control where widgets are displayed for a long time with plugins, but when you’re on WordPress.com, you just don’t get the same features — which should be expected, primarily for security and scalability reasons. One big piece of functionality has been the ability to hide and show a specific widget [...]
Adam Warmer and Brad Vincent, co-founders of FooPlugins.com, made the announcement a couple of days ago that they will be launching [yet] another plugin marketplace. So makes theirs so special? How about how what makes it different? Listing your free plugin and leveraging our traffic and marketing Listing your paid plugin and using your own [...]
We’re getting a lot closer to a WordPress 3.6 Release Candidate, which is really exciting. Mark Jaquith posted on the main WordPress blog that WordPress 3.6 Beta 3 is now available. Mentioning just one feature enhancement, oEmbed support for Rdio and Spotify are now included with the WordPress 3.6 Beta 3 release. Unfortunately, the Rdio [...]
In an effort to appeal to more WordPress site owners, Joseph Scott — who works for Automattic, which operates VaultPress, announced today that VaultPress is now offering a “Lite” plan at a $5 per month price tag. You receive the normal benefits of daily backups, automated site restore, stats and activity logging, and 30 days [...]
Paul Maiorana, part of the WordPress.com VIP team, made the announcement that WordPress.com VIP cloud customers will be able to utilize the new search functionality. I said cloud customers because WordPress.com VIP offers two types of services. WordPress cloud hosting as well as WordPress.org (self-hosted) consulting. Both are at a high premium, but that’s the [...]
I’m going to be at WordCamp Orange County this year, which is just a few weeks ago. While it’s unfortunate the the tickets have already sold out, I know the organizers have said that they want to secure more tickets with a bigger venue for next year. I’m really excited to be a Green sponsor [...]
April was a heavy month full of surprises. Two high profile caching plugins, W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache were both exploited and require immediate updates if you have them activated. Additionally, there were widespread botnet attacks, brute-forcing password attempts and much more. Take a look below at what Sucuri wrote throughout April.
In a recent email to their affiliates, BraveNewCode announced that they are shutting down their affiliate program. Here is what they had to say.
In a recent email from LiquidWeb, one of the largest web hosting providers on the Internet, they notified their customers about a recent security vulnerability in two popular WordPress plugins. WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache. We have become aware of a critical security vulnerability in very commonly used plug-ins for the popular WordPress [...]
Have you heard of bbPress? It’s a free forum plugin that you can download for WordPress. John James Jacoby, JJJ (@JJJ)for short, announced just a few days ago that bbPress is now in version 2.3. Staying ahead of the curve, bbPress 2.3 is WordPress 3.6 compatible – way to go! Here are some of the [...]
WP Engine, a managed WordPress hosting company, announced the release of their much anticipated next-generation dashboard and a brand new, fully functional feature: Production to and from Staging environments. I think that the production to staging and back to production testing environment is by far the cooler announcement, let’s start with that. WP Engine announced [...]
In a recent post by Scott Taylor, he wrote about how there will be native support for audio and video in WordPress 3.6. This is a huge win for the publishing community around WordPress, as it will help drive further adoption of sharing video. It’s already pretty easy to upload your video to YouTube and [...]
Pressgram, as I’ve written about before, is a great project on Kickerstarter about harnessing those pageviews and sending people back to your site. It’s time to start taking back ownership of the data. John has raised over $47,000 of the $50,000, which is 94% of the projected project cost. The project has over 300 backers [...]
MOJO Themes announced just a couple of weeks ago that MOJO would soon offer a 100% GPL licensing option. Today, JR Farr confirms that theme sellers now have the GPL option when choosing a license for selling their work. To fill you in on the backstory, the entire licensing issue arrose when Jake Caputo was [...]
March’s round-up of WordPress security threats. If you have one of these plugins, make sure you’ve updated to a new version that has the vulnerability fixed, or disable the plugin immediately. If you feel you may have been hacked, use the malware and virus scanner by Sucuri. March was a light month for Sucuri, with [...]
Startbox, the framework which was acquired by WebDevStudios in late 2012, is ready to launch its next version, StartBox 2.7. I reached out to Brad Williams, co-founder of WebDevStudios (WDS), to learn more about how StartBox fits into the world of WDS. What kind of growth plans do you have for the framework? Our current [...]
Michelle Weber, a Story Wrangler for Automattic, announced last week that VideoPress would be joining the Jetpack family. What does this actually mean? In a nutshell: The current VideoPress plugin just provides you with an iFrame that opens up the WordPress.com video administration tools. You have to be logged in to WordPress.com to use it, [...]
Envato promised a 100% GPL licensing option, and now it’s here. It took them just one month to finalize all the legal stuff and it’s available for theme sellers to license their themes (and plugins on CodeCanyon) with a GPL license. This is a big move for the WordPress theme marketplace industry, as well as [...]
WooThemes are now available on ThemeForest….did anyone else see this coming? I certainly didn’t. But now it’s starting to come together as to why WooThemes shut down their affiliate program. ThemeForest has one built into their platform. So why is WooThemes stooping moving into the premium themes marketplace world? From the outside, it appeared like [...]
Dre Armeda, co-founder of Sucuri, is giving a talk on growth and bootstrapping. How do you grow your business without looking for external funding sources? Hear it directly from Dre as he tells the Sucuri story and shares his secrets on growth.
Jonathan Dingman is a passionate blogger who loves writing about WordPress news, reporting on events, theme releases, awesome plugins, and more. He started using WordPress in 2004 and ran the first WordCamp NYC in 2008.