Below you'll find a list of all posts from October, 2016
Whether your WordPress empire consists of a single domain or 100 websites, I’ve no doubt that keeping on eye on your empire’s health is of utmost importance to you. The health of any organization, whether it consists of wo/men or megabytes, can be ensured by keeping an eye on just a few key metrics. In the world of government, factors …
Rebecca Gill, founder of Web-Savvy-Marketing, has published a postmortem of WordCamp WarmUp, an event that took place two days before WordCamp Ann Arbor aimed at breaking the ice for new WordCamp attendees. The event surpassed its goal of 50 attendees forcing Gill to close registration early. “Not only did most WarmUp guests arrive right on time, we had a full room of …
We’ve just added a new feature in The Hub, our member dashboard, which we think you are going to like: the ability to update all of your plugins and themes from the one easy dashboard, and not just WPMU DEV ones! So now, in order to manage updates (or, in fact, update every single plugin and theme on every single one of your …
The WP REST API team and WordPress core contributors met tonight to decide whether to merge the content endpoints in 4.7. After the merge proposal was published a week ago, several core developers expressed concern regarding the brokered authentication scheme and the team has since decided to remove it from the proposal in favor of focusing on it for the …
Whether you’re a developer or an admin overseeing multiple WordPress sites, I’m sure you’ve thought to yourself: “I wish I could do this faster.” From creating a fresh install for testing to updating the same plugin on multiple sites, there are so many tasks you’ll find yourself doing over and over again. WP-CLI is the answer to your woes and …
In Rainmaker.fm’s recent interview with Matt Mullenweg, StudioPress founder Brian Gardner confirmed that the company has put WooCommerce compatibility on the roadmap for its themes, starting with new products first. The “unofficial announcement” was not a secret, as Gardner has been hinting at it on social media and also posted a sneak peak on Dribbble of StudioPress’ upcoming WooCommerce theme. …
Your digital footprint could be the difference between success and failure. View original post at Entrepreneur…
If you want to keep your website running smoothly, it’s a good idea you change or update the version of PHP it’s running on soon since PHP 7 could soon be a minimum requirement for self-hosted WordPress sites by mid-2017. And since PHP is the programming language that forms the backbone of WordPress, this is one tutorial you shouldn’t put off. …
We’ve been covering quite a few WordPress web development topics recently, so you’ve probably already heard about hooks, actions, and filters. These are an essential part of the using the event-driven architecture used by WordPress. And they are your path to creating your own custom “version” of WordPress to suit your needs. In a nutshell, an event-driven architecture is a way …
This week José Conti, creator of WangGuard, announced that he would be shutting down the service and further development. The plugin, which Conti says has nearly 20,000 users, is one of the few effective solutions for combatting WordPress, multisite, BuddyPress, and bbPress spammers and sploggers. Conti was struggling to pay for the servers and, after six years of supporting the …
