Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. Many folks ask us about how and when they can use the WordPress logo, so in this week’s News Drop, Doc helps break it down into a few simple rules. “When can you use the WordPress trademark?” Love WordPress News, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop! In 2015, the WordPress Foundation sued The WordPress Helpers for trademark infringement. The interesting thing is that WordPress Helpers were using the […]

Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. At this year’s DefCon, Hanno Böck described how hackers can find a fresh new WordPress install within 30-60 minutes of going live. Don’t be nervous though, in this week’s video we talk about how you can protect a fresh WordPress install. WordFence shared an excellent write up of Hanno’s presentation, which you can read here, as well as another article on how hackers can take advantage of WordPress sites that have […]

But seriously, the new Jetpack update looks pretty awesome.

Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. We just turned four! We made this cute video to celebrate. Thanks for watching and supporting us over the years. Love WordPress News, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s newest little news drop! This week is Torque Magazine’s 4th birthday. That’s four years of WordPress news, cartoons, videos, tutorials, and events! To celebrate, Emily and I made a cute video showing some of our favorite highlights. Looks off camera: Roll […]

This week was the third WordCamp Brisbane and it looks like it was a big hit. But it got me wondering what it must have been like when Wapuu, the WordPress mascot, first started appearing at meet-ups around the world.

Last week, I shared a short video review of the upcoming Gutenberg Editor. While I loved the minimal and “distraction free” format of the new editor while writing, it ended up being very distracting whenever I needed to do anything else, like add an image between two paragraphs that I’d already written, or adding a bulleted list without turning the nearby paragraphs into a list format too.

Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. July 12th was the Net Neutrality Day Of Action. It was hoped to be the largest online protest in history, but did big tech companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Netflix drop the ball on promoting it? Love WordPress news but hate reading, this is Doc Pop’s News Drop. July 12th 2017 was the “Net Neutrality Day of Action”. Organized by the Fight For The Future, the goal of this day […]

Today, July 12th, Torque is participating in the Battle For The Net. We believe in an open web and highly encourage you to learn more about the fight for Net Neutrality by visiting battleforthenet.com.

Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. We’ve talked a lot about the upcoming Gutenberg Editor for WordPress, but this week Doc gives an early review. Gutenberg hasn’t been officially released yet, but a beta version is available in the plugin repository. Keep in mind this is still an early version of the new editor and many changes are probably still coming. This version used in this video is 0.4.0.

Part 3 in the “Doc, you fool!” series.