by Sarah Gooding | Apr 10, 2019 | coblocks, godaddy, gutenberg, News, Plugins, ThemeBeans, Themes, Wordpress Resources
GoDaddy has acquired CoBlocks, ThemeBeans, Block Gallery and Block Unit Tests, one of the leading Gutenberg product lines in the WordPress ecosystem. Founder Rich Tabor is joining GoDaddy as Senior Product Manager of WordPress Experience and will lead a team dedicated...
by Sarah Gooding | Apr 4, 2019 | News, pipdig, Plugins, security, Themes, Wordpress Resources
Over the weekend, Pipdig, a small commercial theme company, has been at the center of a scandal after multiple reports exposed a litany of unethical code additions to its Pipdig Power Pack (P3) plugin. On Friday, March 29, Wordfence threat analyst Mikey Veenstra...
by Sarah Gooding | Mar 20, 2019 | accessibility, News, Themes, Wordpress Resources
WordPress contributor teams have shipped several new tools for theme developers in the past couple weeks, which have the potential to raise the quality of new themes coming into the ecosystem. The Theme Sniffer plugin is a new effort from the Theme Review team that...
by Sarah Gooding | Mar 2, 2019 | News, Plugins, security, Wordpress Resources
Freemius, a monetization, analytics, and marketing library for WordPress plugin and theme developers, patched an authenticated option update vulnerability in its wordpress-sdk four days ago. The library is included with many popular plugins, such as NextGEN Gallery...
by Sarah Gooding | Feb 28, 2019 | gatsby, News, Themes, Wordpress Resources
Gatsby WordPress Themes is a new collaborative project led by Zac Gordon with help from Jason Bahl, Rich Tabor, Muhammad Muhsin, and Alexandra Spalato. The group is working together to port popular themes for use with Gatsby, the React-based static site generator that...
by Sarah Gooding | Feb 21, 2019 | bootstrap, News, Plugins, security, Wordpress Resources
Bootstrap has released versions 4.3.1 and 3.4.1 to patch an XSS vulnerability (CVE-2019-8331) that was reported to the Bootstrap Drupal project by a developer and then responsibly disclosed to the Bootstrap development team. The vulnerability specifically affects...
