WP-CLI 0.24 Will Deprecate wp-settings-cli.php in Favor of wp-settings.php

For the past three years, WP-CLI has loaded a modified copy of WordPress’ wp-settings.php. The reason behind this, according to Cristi Burcă, the project’s original maintainer, is that “WordPress does several things that don’t make sense in a CLI context.” Keeping that modified copy up-to-date was a small chore, but it offered WP-CLI far more control over how it interacts …

New WordPress Plugin Tests for TLS 1.2 Compatibility

Jason Coleman, creator of the popular Paid Memberships Pro plugin, published a post today, warning users that many payment gateways will soon require TLS 1.2. The encryption protocol secures communication between the server and customers’ browsers so that things like credit card numbers and addresses can be transferred safely. Coleman outlined the requirements that a server should support in order …

PHP[World] 2016 Call for Speakers Now Open, WordPress Sessions Welcome

PHP[World] 2016 will be held November 14-18 in Washington, D.C. This will be the third edition of the conference, which aims to bring together the various sub-communities that are linked by the PHP programming language (including Drupal, WordPress, CakePHP, Magento, Laravel, and others.) The call for speakers opened today and organizers welcome submissions from the WordPress community for its dedicated …