Bob Dunn, founder of Do the Woo, is embarking on an eight-day, 6,500 mile, cross-country journey to New York City to attend the State of the Word on December 14th. He’s doing so via rail through Amtrak. You can read … Read More
Gravatar has made headlines again thanks to an untended use of its API. Gravatar, created by Tom Preston-Werner and acquired by Automattic in 2007, enables users to upload an image for an avatar and use it across any site that … Read More
Better late than never! I hope everyone had a good holiday last week. I ended up getting some of my much-needed medication so things are not as bleak as they were last week. At any rate, you can listen to … Read More
As I was checking the backend of WP Mainline today, I noticed I had 6 plugin updates ready to be installed. I typically read the changelogs of each update to get a sense of what’s new or if there is … Read More
In this episode, Malcolm Peralty and I are joined by Bob Dunn of Do The Woo fame to discuss the news of the week. We started off by discussing the most surprising acquisition of the year with GoDaddy acquiring Pagely. … Read More
There have been a lot of WordPress acquisitions this year, but none of them are as surprising as GoDaddy acquiring Pagely. In fact, it has taken nearly 24 hours for the shock and awe to decrease to the point where … Read More
In this episode, Malcolm Peralty and I discussed the news of week starting off with Automattic’s acquisition of WPScan. I also shared my experience of what it was like to spend eight straight hours of reading, participating, and writing about … Read More
Task: In today’s exercise, the task is to copy three links that are listed in a Google Document that’s used to collaborate on show notes for a podcast and paste them into a List Block. Expectation: After I create a … Read More
As I usually do, I was keeping an eye on Twitter and saw someone post a link to a video called WP Late Night. Intrigued, I clicked the link and watched a video of two people associated with WordCamp Spain … Read More
WPScan, a WordPress vulnerability database that has existed for 10 years has been acquired by Automattic. But if you read the announcement on the Jetpack blog, it appears as though Jetpack acquired WP Scan as if it’s its own separate … Read More