Author: Ryan Neudorf
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Dear WordPress Get Your 💩 Together
Dear WordPress.org, Get your shit together! It is 2016, there is no excuse for allowing any plugins with insecure code to make their way into the plugin directory. Full stop. The story about Custom Content Type Management stealing admin credentials and other shenanigans, is utterly pathetic. I’d bet this incident is just the tip of the…
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The Role of Developers in the WordPress Community
Earlier this week, influential British designer Sazzy wrote a blog post entitled The Elephant In The Room about the depressing state of freelance web design. While not directly related, her post got me thinking about the current plight of the back-end developer inside the WordPress universe. Over the past 3 or 4 years I’ve focused…
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Peach Came From a Can
Social app Peach hit the interwebs over the weekend, harder than a late 1990s grunge-esque anthem skipping on a discman playing through a cassette tape adapter. You could write off peach as another social networking app for tech groupies. But you’d be missing a very unique feature. Chatbots. (Sorta. They’re almost more like command-line keywords.)…