As you have probably heard by now, the first official national WordCamp will be happening the first weekend in December in Philadelphia. I am extremely honored and humbled to be among the speakers at WordCamp US. I will be sharing a 35-minute presentation overview of WordPress usage within higher education. While I am there, I would love to […]
WordPress 4.2.3, Shortcodes, and the Future
September 4, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The WordPress Core team is hard at work trying to figure out how to move forward with shortcodes in the system. They posted an initial draft of the shortcode roadmap earlier this week, and it was met with a lot of discussion (some very productive, some not so much). They went back to the drawing board, and proposed […]
LoopConf: The Best Conference I Won’t Be Attending
April 22, 2015 by Leave a Comment
For those of you that are passionate about WordPress, especially the technical side of it, there is an upcoming conference that looks like it will be absolutely amazing. LoopConf is being held in Las Vegas in about 2 weeks. At $675 each, the cost of the tickets is more on-par with academic conferences than with WordCamps, but the […]
Another Day, Another Security Update
April 21, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Hot on the heels of the security announcement regarding a large number of plugins yesterday, the WordPress team has released an urgent security update to the WordPress core itself. If you haven’t already, you should once again go back through all of your sites and update WordPress. The good news is, since this is a minor […]
Far-reaching Security Vulnerability Revealed
April 20, 2015 by Leave a Comment
According to an article on the Sucuri blog today, there is an extremely widespread security vulnerability in many WordPress plugins. The vulnerability seems to be the result of a breakdown in communication, where developers expected a set of core WordPress functions to do one thing, when it actually does another. Essentially, most plugin developers (including those […]
Major Drupal Vulnerability
October 30, 2014 by Leave a Comment
A major exploit in Drupal 7, allowing SQL injection, was reported a few weeks ago. Many security blogs are reporting that all Drupal systems that are running v7 should consider themselves potentially exploited, unless they patched their system on or before October 15 (when the vulnerability was reported). For those of us that constantly hear […]
New Dreamweaver Offers Great New Feature
October 7, 2014 by 2 Comments
Let me preface this post by saying: I totally understand that using Dreamweaver as an IDE is laughable to many, but, the bottom line for me is that it’s functional, and has always offered a handful of nice features for straight HTML, CSS and PHP coding. I also understand that a lot of designers have long […]
Potential Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in jQuery Scripts
October 4, 2014 by Leave a Comment
A few days ago, Eric A Mann posted an article explaining a potential XSS vulnerability in various jQuery scripts. The basic premise is that a very common coding practice in jQuery (checking to see if an element exists before trying to use it) could lead to an XSS attack. Essentially, if you use jQuery to […]
WordPress 4.0 Is Here
September 9, 2014 by Leave a Comment
WordPress 4.0 has been released, and brings with it some pretty nice new features. You can read about many of the new features in the official release announcement. That said, as I’ve begun testing the new release so that we can implement it, I’ve noticed one feature that was removed from the system. You no […]
WordPress 3.9.2 – Major Security Release
August 6, 2014 by Leave a Comment
If you are using WordPress (and, if you’re reading this site, chances are pretty good that you are), you’ll want to make sure your site gets updated to 3.9.2 right away. WordPress 3.9.2 was released earlier today, and it fixes what’s being reported as a pretty major security hole (which is also present, and has also been […]