Tom Willmot on the Challenges and Opportunities Facing Enterprise WordPress • Tom Lach on the costs of rapid growth — It’s not for everyone • The Future of GiveWP and the Block Editor • Evolving Edupack — and Sunsetting It • and more… Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Tom Willmot on the Challenges and Opportunities … Continue reading WordPress Business Roundup for the Week of November 14
Category: John James Jacoby
Naming is hard—but important
This is an important topic that came out of a Post Status Slack #security discussion involving Robert Rowley and John James Jacoby: WordPress Terminology Meta. It continued over at the WPwatercooler. This article was published at Post Status — the community for WordPress professionals.
Active Install Data Story Update: Not a breach but abuse of an endpoint
At the WPwatercooler, JJJ clears up some of the mystery… There are two very simple and still live endpoints that have provided the obfuscated active install data at wordpress.org since 2017. They’re just PHP files, not endpoints that map to anything else. They access the database to give a JSON result to properly formed queries.… Continue reading Active Install Data Story Update: Not a breach but abuse of an endpoint
Post Status Excerpt (No. 70) — Trust and Distrust: Microagressions, Active Install Growth Data for Plugins, and Open Source Security
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Dan and Ny take on three issues in the WordPress community that can threaten or impair trust while also revealing how foundational trust and healthy communication are: 1) racism and microaggressions, 2) the sudden removal and uncertain fate of the active install growth chart in the WordPress.org plugin… Continue reading Post Status Excerpt (No. 70) — Trust and Distrust: Microagressions, Active Install Growth Data for Plugins, and Open Source Security
Active Install Charts Removed from Plugin Repo
In reaction to as yet unpublicized details about the abuse of active install data in the WordPress.org plugin repository, the charts displaying that data have been removed from plugin pages in a move expected to be temporary. Important (and some familiar) questions are emerging as this story unfolds: how to balance the values of openness,… Continue reading Active Install Charts Removed from Plugin Repo
A Taxonomy of Access Control
Bruce Schneier thinks this idea from Ittay Eyal is brilliant and broadly applicable. Since I like pretty much everything Bruce says (that I can understand) I tried to get my head around this and the discussion it spawned in Post Status Slack with Rowley and JJJ. Bruce’s summary: The paper is about cryptocurrency wallet design,… Continue reading A Taxonomy of Access Control