By Ryan Imel on June 29, 2011
Once those core updates show up there’s only really one way to get rid of them, once and for all: update. Today we have something for the whole family: a security release in 3.1.4 and another release candidate for the upcoming 3.2.
Ryan Boren posted the news this afternoon, along with a bit of background on the security release in 3.1.4:
This release fixes an issue that could allow a malicious Editor-level user to gain further access to the site. Thanks K. Gudinavicius of SEC Consult for bringing this to our attention. Version 3.1.4 also incorporates several other security fixes and hardening measures thanks to the work of WordPress developers Alexander Concha and Jon Cave of our security team. Consult the change log for more details.
Hit those eager upgrade buttons for 3.1.4, and bring your testing sites up to speed with 3.2 RC3. If you aren’t sure whether you’re ready for 3.2 yet (your plugins as well as your hosting requirements), then, well, what have you been doing?
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By Ryan Imel on June 29, 2011
Adii Pienaar teased his next project Miniraffe this morning. Soon after we posted it a WPCandy reader alerted us that their in-development Miniraffe site is currently publicly viewable.
The full site design of Miniraffe, which you can view now at miniraffe.com/homepage/, seems to confirm that the next project from Pienaar and his partners James Koster and Mike Jolley will indeed be a commercial plugin shop. The gallery below contains the development pages, just in case the site is moved anytime soon.
Miniraffe pre-public website peek
Aside from confirming that Miniraffe is a plugin shop the site doesn’t give us too much information. The home page describes the purpose in a bit more detail, along with promoting the plugins as compatible with the default themes Twenty Ten, Twenty Eleven, and themes from WooThemes:
Miniraffe plugins add kick-ass functionality to WordPress and to add another dimension of awesomeness we’ve endeavoured to make them compatible with WordPress’ own default themes and those from leading retailers.
Only a “Mega Menu” plugin is referenced on the site, listed at $20.
Pienaar shared his thoughts on what he called the “lack of premium WordPress plugins” on his blog earlier this month. He described what he saw as an opportunity for those willing to work to release quality code, since “every WP-powered website potentially needs a plugin, but not every WP-powered website needs a theme.” He asserted that this larger demand would lead to great rewards:
Early movers in this space will be greatly rewarded too (as GravityForms, Wishlist, BackupBuddy & the others have), because there’s very little out there at the moment. Your plugin could thus realistically close off a whole section of the potential plugin space and make it your own.
What do you think of Pienaar’s statements on the lack of commercial WordPress plugins? How about what seems to be his next project, a WordPress plugin shop?
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By Ryan Imel on June 29, 2011
AppThemes has announced that they have hired WordPress core contributor Pete Mall to their team as a developer. Shannon Dunn, AppThemes’ Creative Director explained how he sees hiring Mall as an important part of one of his larger goals at AppThemes:
Since joining AppThemes, it has been my highest priority to increase production resources. With more developers on staff, I knew we would be able to develop new products faster and release updates to existing products more consistently…
Pete will be a major force in future AppThemes products. He and Dave have already had discussions on how to make AppThemes products better and more powerful. You will be able to see some of the results of Pete’s influence right away.
Mall is a core contributor to both the WordPress and bbPress projects. He is also a regular speaker at WordCamps and other conferences, and (of course) blogs and tweets. Last we heard Mall was CubicTwo’s CTO, and looks to still be listed on their about page.
AppThemes has also hired Renato Rezende from their community as a Support Expert and two other unnamed developers, one of which is another core contributor to WordPress.
It seems that something about being a WordPress core contributor tends to get people hired, likely due to the experience and increased understanding of how WordPress works that core contribution brings. Are you contributing to WordPress core yet? Have you considered doing so in order to increase your value as a contractor or employee?
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By Ryan Imel on June 29, 2011
Adii Pienaar of WooThemes and Radiiate fame teased a new project this morning on Twitter. It’s called Miniraffe, features a cute yellow giraffe floating on a cloud, and describes itself as “a tiny studio dedicated to producing first-class WordPress goodies.”
Pienaar is working on the new project with James Koster and Mike Jolley, who WooThemes collaborated with on their FaultPress theme release earlier this year.
There isn’t much to go on right now—just the email subscription form sitting amongst the leaves on their landing page right now—but we can still make up our own crazy theories right? That’s sort of what we do. Although we can likely rule out a business plan revolving around the airborne transport of large African mammals. Most likely.
Your turn: what do you think Pienaar and company have planned for Miniraffe?
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By Ryan Imel on June 28, 2011
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A few brave folks from Page.ly have moved from their home base of Phoenix, Arizona to San Francisco for the next month or so. While there they are taking up the task of capturing some of what WordPress means in San Francisco and bringing it back with them. They’re doing so mostly via recording interviews and meetups, though straight up kidnapping wouldn’t surprise me much either.
The video above was recorded at last night’s San Francisco WordPress Meetup, held at the Automattic offices. Beau Lebens of Automattic is featured in the video, as well as a handful of the AppThemes crew. GraphPaperPress gets a mention, as does—what’s this?—our very own sweet-toothed WordPress news site.
Of course I don’t really think Page.ly would kidnap human beings. Even if they were human beings that love WordPress.
Probably.
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