Tag: WordPress
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WordPress Importers: Stating the Problem
It’s time to focus on the WordPress Importers. I’m not talking about tidying them up, or improve performance, or fixing some bugs, though these are certainly things that should happen. Instead, we need to consider their purpose, how they fit as a driver of WordPress’ commitment to Open Source, and how they can be a…
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Straight White Guy Discovers Diversity and Inclusion Problem in Open Source
This is a bit of strange post for me to write, it’s a topic I’m quite inexperienced in. I’ll warn you straight up: there’s going to be a lot of talking about my thought processes, going off on tangents, and a bit of over-explaining myself for good measure. Think of it something like high school…
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The Next Adventure
Over my past few years at Automattic, I’ve worked on a bunch of different teams and projects – VideoPress, the WordPress iOS app, various Social projects, and most recently, o2. I even took a few months to work on WordPress core, helping build the auto-update functionality that we now see rolling out security updates within…
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Introducing: Automatic Updater for WordPress
Are you sick of having to wait several seconds for your WordPress site to update? Tired of your plugins not being updated as soon as an update is available? Well, do I have the solution for you! Automatic Updater for WordPress is a light-weight plugin that downloads and installs updates as soon as they become…
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An Automattic Adventure
Today I officially begin my role as a TransCoder (This title is a terrible geeky pun. Blame Matt.) at Automattic. As a TransCoder, I’ll be doing new and exciting things with VideoPress, our video hosting service. For the last 4 years or so, I’ve been working at MySQL (which was swallowed by Sun, which in…
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Preventing Users From Accessing wp-admin
If you have a WordPress site that you allow people to sign up for, you often don’t want them to be able to access wp-admin. It’s not that there are any security issues, you just want to ensure that your users are accessing your site in a predictable manner. To block non-admin users from getting…