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X-post: Rollback Feature: Testing Call to Action
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Google Drive is Flagging Plugins as ‘Viruses’
tl;dr Google, who already blocked anyone from emailing a zip with certain JS files inside (compressed/combined files), has moved to blocking them as ‘viruses’ entirely. This week a new hassle popped up with anyone who uses Google Drive. If you’re not the owner of a file, you may have seen a warning like this: Or…
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What’s The Deal with Invalid Reviews?
tl;dr: Don’t make reviews for your own pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These…
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X-post: Announcement: Incident Response Training
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Rejoice to sanitize_url()
At least once a day, someone has to explain that the only esc_ function you can use to sanitize is esc_url_raw(). This stems from what was (at the time) a logical change. The function sanitize_url() was an alias for esc_url_raw() and it’s redundant to have both. Except … Over the years, WordPress has evolved and…
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Featured/Beta Plugins Now Limit Changes
If your pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the…
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Journal Entry: Removal of the Zamir Plugin
Around 17:30 UTC on March 23, 2022, I was notified of a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and…
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Please don’t ‘test’ submitting other people’s plugins.
tl;dr: Never test vulnerabilities on someone else’s live site without their permission. By now, a lot of you have read the post about the so-called “WordPress Plugin Confusion” whereby a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality…
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Reminder: Check Your Accounts’ Emails (and your Committers)
Hi Devs! We’re getting nearer to WordPress 5.9, and that means the email will be headed out soon. This is the perfect time to double check the email on your accounts, especially if it’s a group email/mailing list. Make sure external emails (like … us) can contact you without bounces or autoreplies. You also should…
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https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/09/27/changes-to-the-wordpress-core-php-test-suite/
Changes to the WordPress Core PHP Test Suite