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. Everyone is talking about GoDaddy’s newest acquisition, Sucuri Security, including us. This week we talk about that and Mike Little’s new role over at Human Made. If you haven’t seen it before, be sure to check out our brief history of GoDaddy acquisitions video. Love WordPress news, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. GoDaddy has been chomping up many WordPress companies in the last few years, but it […]

Monday was the first day of spring! It’s time to celebrate by cleaning up some of that WordCamp swag. Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!

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. According to a recent blog post by Matt Mullenweg, we may see collaborative editing tools in an upcoming version of WordPress. Love WordPress News but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. On last week’s episode, we talked about a new Chrome plugin that allows you to easily import Google Docs into the WordPress editor. A task which sounds easy, but usually ends up in a lot of frustration. Writing […]

WordPress.com rolled out a new “distraction-free” editor this week. No news on if this new editor will ever be available to self-hosted WordPress users, but you could knit yourself a Compupod Sock while you wait. Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!

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. Clef, the popular two factor authentication plugin for WordPress, is shutting down. This week, Doc talks about why that’s a bummer and what plugins you can try instead. Love WordPress news but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. Clef Two Factor authentication was a plugin that allowed you to sign into your WordPress site by pointing your smartphone camera towards a symbol displayed on the computer screen and Clef […]

According to a press release, the recent disruption of Amazon’s S3 web services was caused by an engineer’s typo. In this week’s comic, we take a guess at what that typo might have been. Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!

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. Ever wonder what hackers hope to achieve after gaining control of a site? Wordfence just published a fantastic article about how one very prolific group of hackers were using WordPress sites to drive traffic to counterfeit NFL sportswear. We talk about that analysis and more in this week’s video. Love WordPress News, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. I finally installed Sucuri a few weeks back and immediately […]

Plugin Madness officially kicks off next week, but it’s not too early for Doc to have already messed things up somehow. Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!

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. Tired of only having two editing options in WordPress? This week we review the brand new “Gutenberg editor” for WordPress. This is an experimental new block-based editor that may work it’s way into a future version of WordPress. Try the prototype here and let us know which is your favorite version. Love WordPress News, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. There are currently two editing options for creating […]

Whenever I use the WordPress Command Line tool (WP-CLI), I feel like the cliche stock photo of a hacker. Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!