A free weekly Newsletter with a round-up of WordPress news and articles
The Thriving World of Open-Source Ecommerce
The success of WordPress is, at least in part, accredited to its use of the open-source software model. Quite simply, the term “open source” refers to something that can be freely modified and used because it’s under the General Public License (GPL). Today, we’d like to discuss an important part of the WordPress ecosystem—eCommerce.
Why WPMU DEV Has the BEST Support in the WordPress Community. Period.
Our support team works hard behind the scenes to help members using our 140+ plugins and 150+ themes. This is the story behind our head of support and our awesome support crew.
WordPress Contributors Move Toward Automating Accessibility Testing
Accessibility is one of those areas of WordPress contribution that hardly ever ends up in the spotlight. Much of the work that goes on in this area is invisible to the vast majority of users. Accessibility experts are generally in shorter supply than other types of contributors as well. Why aren’t more people involved in this important aspect of the web? Find out here.
The Top 100 WordPress Page Not Found Errors and What They Mean
Analyzing requests to non-existent pages across a broad range of websites can yield revealing insights into common website misconfigurations, vulnerability scans by malicious and non-malicious actors and other interesting behavior, for example, undocumented crawler behavior. In this article we listed them and tried to get with an asnwer to those errors.
WordPress Statistics for the Top 500K Sites
A website called Hacker Target has posted a roundup of cute graphs with usage statistics for WordPress themes, plugins, and hosting for the top 500,000 on the internet. The results are fun to look at, but you should consider them as an interesting note, with a big asterisk.
WP Ninjas Launch Ninja Demo: A Complete Demo Solution for WordPress Products
Ninja Demo aims to address this need by providing a complete demo solution that includes access restrictions, isolated sandboxes, automated cleanup, user role control, easy content updating, and more. The WP Ninjas are the first ones in the WordPress community to tackle this problem with a convenient solution.
