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 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...
by Sarah Gooding | Dec 8, 2018 | amp, News, Plugins, Wordpress Resources
Version 1.0 of the official AMP plugin for WordPress was released on the eve of WordCamp US, after two years in development by contributors from Automattic, XWP, and Google. This first stable version has a massive changelog with 30 people credited for their...
by Sarah Gooding | Nov 29, 2018 | News, Plugins, syntax highlighter, Wordpress Resources
WordPress 5.0 will ship with a code block in the new editor but it doesn’t include syntax highlighting. The code is currently wrapped in pre tags. During the earlier days of Gutenberg’s development, the HTML block had syntax highlighting but the team was...
by Sarah Gooding | Nov 20, 2018 | Block Lab, gutenberg, News, Plugins, Wordpress Resources
Block Lab is a new tool that provides an admin interface and a templating system for creating custom Gutenberg blocks. Rob Stinson, Luke Carbis, and Rheinard Korf, all employees at XWP, kicked off the project in their own time with the goal of removing the relatively...
by Sarah Gooding | Oct 5, 2018 | gutenberg, layout blocks, News, Plugins, Wordpress Resources
photo credit: Jeffrey BettsMany WordPress theme shops started out with themes as their only products but over the years have moved into selling plugins that enhance their core products. This came about partially because theming standards evolved to encourage...
