This week we’ve had a real storm brewing in the WordPress community. It was brought about by the grand entrance of WP Avengers onto the scene, which rekindled talk about the GPL and ethical conduct between plugin and theme developers.
In June 2013, Checkmarx’s research labs ran multiple security scans against the source code of the most popular WordPress plugins. The result? More than 20% of the 50 most popular WordPress plugins are vulnerable to common Web attacks, such as SQL Injection. In total, 8 million vulnerable WordPress plugins were
One of the events I’m most looking forward to attending this year is WordCamp Europe, and I’ve just been notified that the tickets are now on sale. WordCamp Europe will be held in Leiden (close to Amsterdam) on the 7th and 8th of October, with a contributor day held on
Google have just announced that Google Reader, a most-loved RSS feed aggregator, will shut down come July 1. As is to be expected, many people were outraged by this decision. If you’re one of the Google Reader users, and you’re also working with WordPress, let me present you with an
Lots of WordPress developers tell us that off-the-shelf WordPress themes are becoming an increasingly popular choice in comparison to bespoke, from-scratch themes. But finding a good theme that will work for your project is still a difficult and often frustrating process. wp.io’s new WordPress Theme Explorer offers a unique way
There are thousands of WordPress themes available to WordPress users, yet I couldn’t help wondering, have you ever needed a theme for a particular niche and found that surprisingly very few themes catered for your needs?
During the last 2 weeks we’ve given some coverage to the Genesis vs Thesis debate. On my own Genesis vs Thesis review I leaned towards a preference to Genesis, however the comments to that review showed that there are people who love Thesis too.
I would now like to know
The WordPress Plugin Directory is due for an update. While it’s great for getting information about specific plugins, it’s not so great for browsing. The lack of filtering, and the poor quality of relevance results are two of the main reasons. I’m proposing a revamp of the plugin directory.
Today I’m again at WordCamp Seville for the 2nd and final day. Today is dev hack day, so all talks will be developer oriented.
If you want to take a look at my presentation slides from yesterday, you can find the link in this post.
We’re very happy to announce that we will be present at WordCamp Seville, really looking forward to meet some other WordPress developers and users, as well as touring this magnificent city.
Github is an open source collaboration tool and code repository. There are a number of WordPress projects thriving in this ecosystem, and Themergency have listed a few of the best WordPress projects hosted on Github.
As many of you surely know, WordPress is released under the GPL licence, as are many other open-source software e.g. Linux.
Although you might know that WordPress is GPL-licenced, you might not be aware of what the licence actually consists of and how it affects us as users and developers.
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