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Disable Specific WordPress Update Emails with the Control WP Core Emails Plugin
If you manage a number of WordPress sites, you may find yourself inundated with emails each time a new version of WordPress is released. If you’d like to quickly disable these types of notifications,...
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7 Aspects Of WordPress I Take For Granted
After using WordPress for seven years in a row, it’s hard to consider switching to another publishing platform. I have my gripes about WordPress and there are plenty of things that can improve the...
View ArticleWhat Happens When WordPress Is Updated With 100 Plugins Activated?
Over the years, there have been several articles published on the topic of how many WordPress plugins are too many. A common point of debate is that too many plugins can slow down your site or cause...
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It’s Time For WordPress to Automatically Update Themes, Plugins, and Core by...
Over the weekend, the WordPress plugin directory implemented a major change that better reflects how popular a plugin is. The number of total downloads has been replaced with the number of active...
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bbPress 2.5.5 Released, Patches Three Potential Security Vulnerabilities
bbPress 2.5.5 is available for download. This release fixes three potential security vulnerabilities reported by J.D. Grimes and was pushed out within nearly 24 hours of being notified. Users should...
View ArticleWhy Some Sites Automatically Updated to WordPress 4.1.3
Since WordPress 4.2 was released, some users are questioning why their sites have automatically updated to WordPress 4.1.3. There’s no information about the release on the Make WordPress Core site or...
View ArticlePoll: How Often Do You Read a WordPress Plugin’s Changelog Before Updating?
As the debate on whether or not WordPress.org hosted themes should have changelogs continues, one line of thought is that regular users don’t read them. As a long time user of WordPress, I always read...
View ArticlecPanel’s Site Software Addon Disables WordPress Auto Updates
A little more than two months ago, Derek Munson, who goes by the username Drumology2001 published a thread in the WordPress.org support forums. While performing maintenance on several WordPress sites...
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Matt Mullenweg Addresses Concerns That WordPress is Moving Too Fast
photo credit: steevithak – cc There are at least three major releases of WordPress per year where users can expect new features and major bug fixes about every four months. While this is great for...
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Take Granular Control of WordPress’ Update System with Easy Updates Manager
When WordPress 3.7 “Basie” was released in 2013, it brought automatic updates to the masses. By default, WordPress automatically updates to point releases. Using additional constants within...
View ArticleWordPress 4.8.2 Patches Eight Security Vulnerabilities
WordPress 4.8.2 is available for download and users are encouraged to update as soon as possible. This release patches eight security vulnerabilities and has six maintenance related fixes. Hardening...
View ArticleNew Plugin Makes WordPress Core Updates More Secure by Requiring...
In 2016, WordFence published their findings of a vulnerability that could have compromised the servers that are used to send out WordPress updates. It turned out to be a complex, obscure vulnerability...
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Plugins And The Lack Of Change Logs
The other day, I noticed I had about 9 plugins that needed to be upgraded. So I browsed to the plugin management page in WordPress 2.8 and noticed the link to view the details regarding the new plugin...
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Scott Reilly Doing The Update Dance
Scott Reilly, also known as Coffee2Code has been busy as of late churning out plugin updates. This guy some how continues to find a way to maintain about 60 plugins. Some are simple while others...
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AtD For OpenOffice Updated
Raphael has released an updated version of the After The Deadline extension for OpenOffice that fixes a bug that prevented OpenOffice from applying AtD to non-English (US) documents. Instead of using...
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Notifications For The Collapsed Menu
I don’t know about you, but I have a widescreen monitor and I’ve enjoyed having the WordPress administration menus collapsed versus extended. The extra real estate is nice to have with less for me to...
View ArticlePlugin Authors And The Activation Hook
This post is an FYI to plugin developers. According to Scribu who posted on the WordPress development update blog, If you were using register_activation_hook() to also handle updates from older...
View ArticleNeed Post Format Support Added To WPTavern
Is anyone out there interested in adding Post Format support to the WPTavern theme including the necessary styles to go with them? I’m willing to pay $20.00 to have this done as I’m currently working...
View ArticleNarrowly Escaping WordPress 3.0.6
WordPress 3.0.5 was released the other day to address a couple of issues dealing with security and untrusted user accounts. While those issues were addressed, it was soon discovered that one of the...
View ArticleWhat’s The Best Way To Be Notified Of Theme And Plugin Updates?
Joost de Valk who is pretty popular these days, especially after the release of his Yoast SEO Plugin tells us the story of how one of his sites was hacked because a theme containing the TimThumb...
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BuddyPress Skeleton Component Upgraded To Version 1.6
One of the coolest things about BuddyPress is that when it was developed by Andy Peatling, he made sure to put in a considerable amount of effort into creating a BuddyPress Starter theme as well as a...
View ArticleWP Super Cache 1.0 Released
Congrats to Donncha O Caoimh for releasing version 1.0 of his popular caching plugin, WP Super Cache. The release is an incremental improvement over previous versions but contains a number of bugfixes...
View ArticleWordPress 3.6.1 Now Available
WordPress 3.6.1 has been pushed out the door. This release comes 42 days after WordPress 3.6 was made available on August 1st. This is a maintenance package that contains bug and security fixes. You...
View ArticleHow Will You Configure Auto Updates In WordPress 3.7?
With WordPress 3.7 steadily approaching the release candidate stage with a full release soon after, I thought it would be interesting to poll the audience to determine how you plan on configuring auto...
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WordPress Automatic Updates – No Options For You!
Now that WordPress 3.7 is out in the wild and has already accumulated over 1.5 million downloads, the complaints are starting to roll in concerning the automatic update feature. On the...
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Better WordPress Security Plugin Gets Major Update To Address Security...
Chris Wiegman of iThemes has announced the latest update to the Better WP Security plugin contains fixes for vulnerabilities discovered in 3.6.3. The updates address compatibility with InfiniteWP, the...
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How To Redirect Automatic Update Email Notifications In WordPress
One of the biggest features to land in WordPress 3.7 were automatic updates. When automatic updates are completed, an email notification is sent to the address specified within Settings > General...
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WordPress 3.8.3 Released, Fixes Quick Draft Bug
WordPress 3.8.3 was released today and fixes a pesky bug introduced in WordPress 3.8.2. As we reported a few days ago, one of the security fixes in 3.8.2 caused the Quick Draft dashboard widget to...
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