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Pipdig Updates P3 Plugin after Reports Expose Vendor Backdoors, Built-in Kill Switch, and Malicious DDoS Code

April 14, 2019design tips

Over the weekend, Pipdig, a small commercial theme company, has been at the center of a scandal after multiple reports exposed a litany of unethical code additions to its Pipdig Power Pack (P3) plugin. On Friday, March 29, Wordfence threat analyst Mikey Veenstra published a report with code examples of (more…)

WordPress 5.1 Release Candidate

April 11, 2019WPDev News

The first release candidate for WordPress 5.1 is now available! This is an important milestone, as the release date for WordPress 5.1 draws near. “Release Candidate” means that the new version is ready for release, but with millions of users and thousands of plugins and themes, it’s possible something was missed. WordPress 5.1 is scheduled […]

Jetpack 7.1 Adds Feature Suggestions to Plugin Search Results

April 11, 2019design tips

Jetpack 7.1 was released earlier this month with new blocks for WordAds, Business Hours, Contact Info, Slideshows, and Videos. This release also quietly added suggestions to the plugin search screen, a change that has not been well-received by the developer community. If a user searches for a plugin that has (more…)

Automattic Launches Happy Tools Product Line for Distributed Teams

April 10, 2019design tips

Automattic has released Happy Schedule, the first in a new line of products called “Happy Tools,” created to solve problems for distributed teams. The products have grown out of internal tools that Automattic uses with its distributed team of more than 850 employees in 68 countries. Most employee scheduling tools (more…)

Introducing the 2019 ‘Anything Is Possible’ List

April 10, 2019WPDev News

WordPress.com’s inaugural New Year’s list celebrates the people and organizations who are using the web to make the world a better place.

WordCamp Asia Proposed for 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand

April 10, 2019design tips

The organizers of WordCamp Asia, a brand new regional WordCamp, have published a proposal for making Bangkok, Thailand, the host city for a 2-3 day event in early 2020. They are currently planning for February or March to avoid clashing with other regional WordCamps (WCEU, WCUS). The camp has been (more…)

New Gutenberg Playground Offers a Standalone Version of the Editor for Testing Outside the WordPress Admin

April 9, 2019design tips

The Gutenberg team merged a pull request three days ago that adds a local “playground” development environment for testing outside of the WordPress admin. Riad Benguella, the technical lead for Gutenberg phase 2, said that the playground could grow over time to contain “more than just a standalone version of (more…)

WordPress 5.2 Beta 1 Released: Help Test New Blocks, Block Manager, and Improved Fatal Error Protection

April 9, 2019design tips

WordPress 5.2 beta 1 was released this evening with an exciting lineup of new user-facing features that are ready for testing. The upcoming release introduces new blocks for RSS, Search, Calendar, Tag Cloud, and Amazon Kindle embed. The proliferation of block collection plugins as a block distribution mechanism has caused (more…)

The Month in WordPress: January 2019

April 7, 2019WPDev News

The momentum from December’s WordPress 5.0 release was maintained through January with some big announcements and significant updates. Read on to find out what happened in the WordPress project last month. WordPress Leadership Grows In a milestone announcement this month, WordPress project lead, Matt Mullenweg (@matt), named two individuals who are coming on board to […]

rtCamp Releases GitHub Actions for Automated Code Review, Deploying WordPress, and Slack Notifications

April 7, 2019design tips

rtCamp, a 60+ person agency and WordPress.com VIP service partner, has released three new GitHub Actions that handle automated code review, WordPress deployment, and Slack notifications. The PHPCS Code Review action takes advantage of GitHub’s pull request review feature. It performs an automated code review on pull requests using PHPCS. (more…)

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Pipdig Updates P3 Plugin after Reports Expose Vendor Backdoors, Built-in Kill Switch, and Malicious DDoS Code

WordPress 5.1 Release Candidate

Jetpack 7.1 Adds Feature Suggestions to Plugin Search Results

Automattic Launches Happy Tools Product Line for Distributed Teams

Introducing the 2019 ‘Anything Is Possible’ List

WordCamp Asia Proposed for 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand

New Gutenberg Playground Offers a Standalone Version of the Editor for Testing Outside the WordPress Admin

WordPress 5.2 Beta 1 Released: Help Test New Blocks, Block Manager, and Improved Fatal Error Protection

The Month in WordPress: January 2019

rtCamp Releases GitHub Actions for Automated Code Review, Deploying WordPress, and Slack Notifications

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