Earlier today, I joined JJJ and Jeff on episode 319 of the WP Tavern’s WordPress Weekly podcast! We chatted about GitHub being acquired by Microsoft (and what that might mean for the future of WordPress using Trac), the state of Gutenberg, WordCamp Europe, as well as getting into a bit of the philosophy that drives… Continue reading Podcasting: Tavern Style
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Introducing: Linkify for Chrome
In WordPress 4.2, a fun little feature was quietly snuck into Core, I’m always delighted to see people’s reactions when they discover it. Thank you kind WordPress Devs for introducing the paste-a-link-on-highlighted-text feature. It's already saved me half an hour this week! — meagan hanes (@mhanes) May 10, 2016 I love being able to highlight text in… Continue reading Introducing: Linkify for Chrome
Curing a Critical Security Bug
A WordCamp US this year, I spoke about the Trojan Emoji security bug, which we fixed in WordPress 4.1.2. In particular, I went through how we came to wrap our head around the bug, and then write a solution that worked for every WordPress site.
Podcasting with WPTavern
Earlier in the week, I joined Jeff from WPTavern to chat about WordPress Security, the recent WordPress 4.2.3 release, and my favourite food. Check out the full article here.
How I Would Solve Plugin Dependencies
lol, I wouldn’t1. 1. If I absolutely had to, I wouldn’t do it the same as Ryan. WordPress isn’t (and will never be) Linux ZYpp is the dependency solver used by OpenSUSE (and its PHP port in Composer), it was born of the need to solve complex dependency trees. The good news is, WordPress doesn’t… Continue reading How I Would Solve Plugin Dependencies