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Brian Gardner Steps Down From StudioPress

October 8, 2019design tips

Brian Gardner announced he was stepping down from his role with StudioPress this past Friday. Last year, WP Engine acquired StudioPress. After staying on board for the remainder of his contract, Gardner stepped down from his role with the company. “The past 15 months have gone by quickly, and it (more…)

Gatsby Days London Features Multiple WordPress Presentations

October 8, 2019design tips

Gatsby Days London kicked off yesterday with a lot of momentum after Gatsby Inc. announced a $15M Series A funding round last week. The one-day conference drew 200 attendees and was the third in a series of Gatsby Days that have been held in other cities. They are designed to (more…)

Automattic Has Discontinued Active Development on Edit Flow Plugin

October 7, 2019design tips

Edit Flow, the modular editorial plugin that enables collaboration inside the WordPress admin, is no longer being actively developed. After no updates for nine months, Mark Warbinek, a frustrated user, contacted Automattic to ask if they have abandoned the plugin or still plan to update it. A support representative from (more…)

Preparing Themes For WordPress 5.3

October 7, 2019design tips

Now that WordPress 5.3 Beta 1 is open for testing and with the official release slated for November 12, it’s time for theme authors to begin making sure their themes are ready for several changes. Most work will revolve around the block editor. WordPress 5.3 will include versions 5.4 – (more…)

Secure the News Project Finds 93% of Major Publishers Offer HTTPS Encryption by Default

October 6, 2019design tips

Secure the News is a project that was created by the Freedom of the Press Foundation in 2016 to track HTTPS encryption across major news organizations’ websites. It lists the publications and automatically scores them on a scale of 0-100, based on HTTPS implementation according to best practices, as defined (more…)

Rebirth of Creativity: Gutenberg and the Future of WordPress Themes

October 6, 2019design tips

I began using WordPress in 2005. I’d already been learning HTML and CSS for a couple of years. I even had a home-brewed blog that pulled posts from plain text files at one point. I knew enough JavaScript to do pop-up alerts and other annoying things that served no purpose (more…)

Rich Reviews Plugin Discontinued after Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

October 3, 2019design tips

After tracking exploits of a zero day XSS vulnerability in the Rich Reviews plugin for WordPress, Wordfence is recommending that users remove it from their websites. The company estimates that there are 16,000 active installations vulnerable to unauthenticated plugin option updates: Attackers are currently abusing this exploit chain to inject (more…)

Gatsby Raises $15M, Plans to Invest More Heavily in WordPress and CMS Integrations

October 3, 2019design tips

Gatsby Inc. CEO Kyle Mathews announced a $15M Series A funding round today, just one year after creating the company with GatsbyJS core contributors. The open source Gatsby project started in 2015 to provide a framework for developers to quickly build websites with React. As the project soared in popularity, (more…)

Hacktoberfest 2019 Registration is Now Open

October 2, 2019design tips

Hacktoberfest has started back up again for its sixth year running, sponsored by DigitalOcean and DEV. The annual event brings together open source communities from all over the world for virtual and local collaboration. Organizers are expecting approximately 150,000 participants this year. The first 50,000 participants who make four pull (more…)

Long-Needed Date/Time Improvements Land in Core

October 2, 2019design tips

After more than a year and several WordPress updates, an overhaul of the core Date/Time component concluded. WordPress 5.3 will ship with fixes for long-standing bugs and new API functions. Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko spearheaded this project and worked through most of the issues in his WP Date fork of WordPress. (more…)

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Brian Gardner Steps Down From StudioPress

Gatsby Days London Features Multiple WordPress Presentations

Automattic Has Discontinued Active Development on Edit Flow Plugin

Preparing Themes For WordPress 5.3

Secure the News Project Finds 93% of Major Publishers Offer HTTPS Encryption by Default

Rebirth of Creativity: Gutenberg and the Future of WordPress Themes

Rich Reviews Plugin Discontinued after Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

Gatsby Raises $15M, Plans to Invest More Heavily in WordPress and CMS Integrations

Hacktoberfest 2019 Registration is Now Open

Long-Needed Date/Time Improvements Land in Core

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