WP eCommerce 3.11.4 Patches SQL Injection Vulnerability

Over the weekend, the WP eCommerce team released version 3.11.4 of its e-commerce plugin. The update patches an SQL injection vulnerability that was responsibly disclosed by Mika Epstein, a member of the WordPress.org plugin review team. According to Justin Sainton, lead developer of WP eCommerce, the team was notified of the vulnerability on November 11th and patched within an hour. The update was …

New WordPress Plugin Serves Pre-Compressed Emoji

WordPress emoji are served from s.w.org, but they are not compressed. This impacts the SVG loading time, depending on how many emoji you are using, and can even throw warnings on Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool. Turkey-based WordPress developer Mustafa Uysal has just released Compressed Emoji, a plugin that makes use of the emoji_svg_url filter introduced in 4.6. This filter allows …

Introducing WPMU DEV Multisite Hosting – Join the Beta Program!

Did you know that over the past 10 years we’ve become the largest hosting provider for WordPress in education? It’s been an extraordinary ride and today I’m thrilled to announce we’re expanding this to the rest of the web. Introducing WPMU DEV Hosting, the ultimate enterprise-level WordPress Multisite solution. CampusPress… But For Everyone! The very genesis of our parent company, …

Andy Baio Relaunches Waxy.org on WordPress

After 14 years of blogging with MovableType, Andy Baio has relaunched Waxy.org on WordPress. Baio’s media and technology blog has been a continual source of original content about life on the internet and how it affects our culture. The migration includes 472 posts and 15,891 entries from his sideblog Waxy Links. Waxy.org played a small part in WordPress.org’s early history. …