September 2016 in WordPress
This was surely a lively publication by WordPress Tavern. With over 140 comments and counting, the community is still divided when it comes to the suspension of our most popular free theme, Zerif Lite.
Just to bring you up to speed, the theme has been suspended from the WordPress.org repo in mid September. To learn the whole story, check out the corresponding transparency report.
Also, if you’re using Zerif Lite on your site, don’t forget to migrate it to the all-new non-WordPress.org version.
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Another huge deal took place in the WordPress community lately. This time, it’s about hosting. In summary:
The features that GoDaddy wants to integrate into their premium hosting plan are related to backups, staging, migration, and more. Check out the full story above.
A couple of months ago, we started hearing about some serious troubles going on at camp Headway. At one point, a former employee even came forward and said that the support staff was not being paid for their job, hence, the whole support was brought to a halt. The story blew up quite a bit.
The Headway founders couldn’t wait any longer, and they finally published their official statement on Sep 13th.
Last week, a high-risk XSS vulnerability was found in W3 Total Cache, which pushed a new major release in order to remove the threat. It’s the first major update of the plugin since 2014.
The users of W3 Total Cache, which is active on 1 million+ WordPress sites, were surprised to discover that, instead of receiving a security release for the vulnerability, they got a completely new plugin version with new features: support for Opcode Cache, Redis, fragment caching, improved PHP 7 compatibility, and more.
Organized by Alex Vasquez and Natalie MacLees, the Website Weekend LA event will take place in Pasadena, California, on October 22-23, and will bring together developers, designers, content strategists, UX professionals, and project managers to create websites for nonprofits.
All nonprofit organizations are welcome to apply and benefit from a free website assistance.
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