A free weekly Newsletter with a round-up of WordPress news and articles
An Inside Look at WordPress 3.9 Beta 1
Well, as you may or may not know, 3.9 will be coming out in April. And yesterday was the release of the first Beta version. Now we all know there is always much more going on with a release than with what we share, but these are some of the changes you will certainly see.
Creating a Minimum Viable Product Using WordPress
Chris Lema gives you the context to discuss how to create a minimum viable product and the core characteristics of a business.
Where to Learn WordPress Development
There are many helpful communities around WordPress, and the point is to get involved somewhere you can meet other people with similar goals to your own. Here are some places you may want to check out to start learning WordPress development.
WordPress.org Now Delivered Over SSL
WordPress.org is now delivered over SSL. We saw an exchange between John Turner and Pippin Williamson that noted the change, visible as the default result in Google’s search engine results.
How To Prevent WordPress From Participating In Pingback Denial of Service Attacks
XML-RPC is used in WordPress as an API for third-party clients such as WordPress mobile apps, popular weblog clients like Windows Writer and popular plugins such as Jetpack. XML-RPC is used for pingbacks and trackbacks which are a good thing but can be heavily misused to start DDoS attacks.
A Look Behind PropsPress: A Site Dedicated to WordPress Contributors
PropsPress is an inspirational WordPress site that publishes posts, recognizing code contributed to the WordPress core. The site uses IFTTT to monitor the changesets from the wordpress.org trac system and re-publishes the commit messages with “props” to recognize the folks who worked on the code.
Visualize WordPress Project Stats With Ohloh
Ohloh is an excellent resource for tracking open source projects and their contributions. The site allows you to search 10 billion lines of code and provides some fascinating data sets for OS projects, including WordPress and many of its popular plugins.
