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“Our Biggest Challenges in Running A WordPress Plugin & Theme Business in 2018” by MotoPress
Alexander Mat, co-founder at MotoPress provides his interesting angle on the challenges a product WordPress company is experiencing nowadays, and what they do to meet them.
The Definitive PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 & HHVM Benchmarks (2018)
Each year we try and take a deep dive into performance benchmarks across various platforms and see how different versions of PHP and HHVM stack up against each other. This year we went all out and benchmarked four different PHP engines and HHVM across 20 different platforms/configurations; including WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, Laravel, Symfony, and many more. We also tested popular eCommerce solutions such as WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, Magento, and PrestaShop.
Two Factor Authentication on WP.org
Based on the Two Factor plugin, a feature project for WordPress Core, a first trial version of 2FA is now available on WordPress.org. While it’s not in a state yet suitable for rollout across the network, it is ready to be tested by a subset of users—based on ease of segmentation that’s Core Committers and users that are Super Admins.
