WPwatercooler: Dev Branch - Monthly WordPress Web Development Talk Show

This week on WPwatercooler’s Dev Branch the crew will be discussing WordPress Plugin development and the process involved in doing so. Coding, testing, submitting, approval, and ultimately being used on WordPress websites.

Jason Cosper recently worked on two WordPress plugins we’ll follow up with the progress he’s done on those. 

https://github.com/boogah/plu-redux

In this episode of WPwatercooler’s Dev Branch, we’ll be joined by Robert Rowley, a Security Expert, to discuss a critical aspect of building sites with WordPress — plugins. Specifically, we’ll delve into the topic of abandoned plugins and the risks that they can pose to website security.

We will spend some time exploring what happens to WordPress plugins that are no longer maintained by their developers and how they can be leveraged by attackers. We’ll also get into how some of these plugins can be used to add backdoors that can help attackers gain unauthorized access and compromise a site’s integrity.

Finally, we’ll go over the options available to site developers when they find themselves face to face with an abandoned plugin on their site. One option is to adopt the plugin and update it to ensure its continued functionality and security. Another is to fork the plugin, update it, and add new features, building of off the original code and making it your own.

Join us for this important conversation about orphaned WordPress plugins learn and how to keep your website safe from potential security threats.

• Attackers use abandoned WordPress plugin to backdoor websites – bleepingcomputer
• Plugin Last Updated Redux
• Plugin Dependencies – WordPress Plugins
• EP184 – WordPress Plugins: Adoption or Abandonment – WPwatercooler

Chapters:

00:02:46 Abandoned WordPress plugins.  00:06:57 Abandoned plugin exploitation.  00:10:46 Abandoned plugins spike monitoring.  00:12:23 Plugin monitoring for improvements.  00:16:05 Cutting off outdated plugins.  00:19:20 Plugin review team struggles.  00:23:50 Moving towards GitHub.  00:27:33 Open source psycho pumps.  00:29:41 WordPress communication issues.  00:33:19 Plugin dependencies and updates.  00:38:51 Plugin adoption and abandonment.  00:40:24 Plugin security and monitoring.  00:44:10 Old email addresses and AI.

Show Notes:

https://wpwatercooler.com/devbranch/ep27-wordpressing-with-abandonware/

This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing some different ways to WordPress with generating a static website with WordPress and using SQLite database integration.

Links

• https://elementor.com/help/requirements/
• https://ipfs.tech
• https://caniuse.com/?search=marquee
• https://caniuse.com/?search=blink
• https://wp2static.com/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/

Panel

• Jason Cosper
• Jason Tucker
• Robert Rowley
• Sé Reed

This week, we will delve into the world of WordPress and explore new ways of approaching problems and maintenance through the lens of the beginner's mind. Discover how embracing a Zen-like approach can help you tackle complex WordPress issues and find innovative solutions. Tune in now to learn how to cultivate a beginner's mindset and approach WordPress with a fresh perspective.

EP444 - WordPress and the Beginner's Mind

Panel:

• Jason Tucker
• Sé Reed
• Jason Cosper

On this episode, Jason Tucker and Jason Cosper discuss the building blocks of Mastodon and how to connect a WordPress website to Mastodon. Jason Cosper talked about Mastodon at the WPNYC Meetup and discussed running a Mastodon server and the plugins needed to interact with Mastodon and the Fediverse at large with WordPress using ActivityPub and a few supporting plugins to make things work better.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/nodeinfo/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/webfinger/ https://bookwyrm.social/ https://archive.org/details/wpnyc-masto/

• Jason Cosper
• Jason Tucker
• Sé Reed

This month on Dev Branch we’ll be discussing Test Driven Development with Steve Grunwell

• Confidently Testing WordPress
• The Five Types of Test Doubles & How to Create Them in PHPUnit
• PEST
• Behat
• Confidently Testing WordPress
• Steve Grunwell: Confidently Testing WordPress

This month on Dev Branch we’ll be discussing the removal of the Active Install Growth Data chart for plugins. There has been much discussion about this data in the plugin details and why was it removed. We’ll be joined by John James Jacoby and Matt Cromwell who have been discussing this at length.

https://wptavern.com/wordpress-org-plugin-developers-demand-transparency-regarding-the-removal-of-active-install-growth-data https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6511 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/38418 https://twitter.com/briancoords/status/1577769634723295233

John James Jacoby – https://jjj.blog Matt Cromwell – https://givewp.com Jason Tucker – https://jasontucker.blog Sé Reed – https://sereedmedia.com Jason Cosper – https://jasoncosper.com

This week on WPwatercooler’s Dev Branch we have Courtney Robertson joining us to talk about the future of Post Formats in the Full Site Editor future of WordPress. Is there room for Post Formats? Jason Cosper is a fan of them, he hopes so! Courtney is a WordPress Training Team/Learn co-representative and a web design and developer advocate with GoDaddy Pro. Courtney was back on the show in September of 2021 – EP14 – Developing WordPress Developers.

• Post Format Block
• New features for working with patterns and themes in WordPress 6.0
• How to Use Post Formats in Posts
• How to add Post Formats Support to Your Theme
• FSE Program Testing Call #15: Category Customization
• Samurai Wapuu T-Shirt
• http://anarchaia.org
• https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Courtney Robertson – courtneyr.dev Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

Continuing our series on WordPress Blocks & FSE we have Carolina Nymark of fullsiteediting.com who will be speaking with us on Full Site Editing what developers can do to get into using it on their sites and what changes we should expect in the upcoming release.

• fullsiteediting.com
• What is Bikeshedding
• Gutenberg Times
• Roadmap to 6.1
• WordPress 6.1 to Focus On Refining Full-Site Editing, Next Phase Collaboration and Multilingual Features Anticipated in 2023-2025
• Feedback Requested: Proposed Rollback Feature in 6.1, Performance Team Hosting Stats, and Recording Five for the Future Contributions

Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com Carolina Nymark – fullsiteediting.com

This month on Dev Branch we will be discussing managing media in WordPress. We primarily stuck to WP Offload Media and touched on S3 buckets as well as CDN.

• https://deliciousbrains.com/wp-offload-media
• https://deliciousbrains.com/wp-offload-media/doc/how-to-change-storage-provider/
• https://wpengine.com/support/configuring-largefs-store-transfer-unlimited-data/

• Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
• Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
• Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

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