The team over at Wordfence have put together a study of a particular piece of WordPress malware. What makes the infection they're calling BabaYaga interesting? This malware fights other infections for control of the site. This has been a little… [Keep reading]

This website, which we stubbornly insist on reading as "Make Frontends Hit Again," is about something we can really get behind: returning to making completely useless stuff on the web because it's cool and fun. As it says toward the… [Keep reading]

If you or your client is working with web images and wondering about web image DPI guidelines, this article's for you. It explains why DPI doesn't matter for web images, and why pixel count does. When we say "DPI doesn't… [Keep reading]

There are few brands more synonymous with quality in the web development niche than CSS-Tricks. (A List Apart comes to mind. Smashing Magazine, maybe. We work for you to think of us that way...) So when I saw that CSS-Tricks had… [Keep reading]

For those who are really into WordPress community events, and world-wide, there's do_action. For people in the US, there's something called Code for America, and local brigades. My local brigade is called Code for Fort Collins, and I'm more-or-less in… [Keep reading]

I've written here on WPShout about PHP namespaces before. But that article is old, and lacks among other things the fun expanding brain meme that our friend Steve Grunwell included in his post. Steve's post has other reasons to recommend… [Keep reading]

This Sunday is when we're "officially" celebrating that WordPress is 15. (I'm going to a party in Denver, with Matt Mullenweg in attendance.) That's because it was 15 years ago to the day that the first code was pushed to… [Keep reading]

WordSesh was the first (at least to my knowledge) WordPress-focused virtual conference. The last one ran in 2016, and since than I've from time-to-time heard pining for its return. Brian Richards from WPSessions is doing just that: bringing it back.… [Keep reading]

We've made a Facebook group. We're not completely sure how it'll work, and what's allowed, but we're really interested in seeing what more we can do with more frequent communication in a space that a whole bunch of people are… [Keep reading]

Over on Thoughtful Code, I spilled a bunch of words about semantic version numbers. WordPress 4.9.6 is imminent, and it got me to thinking about why semantic version numbers are so important to me. And because WordPress matters a lot… [Keep reading]

I get like four emails a day about the GDPR, and because we're not Facebook, Google, or an ad network, it doesn't seem world-shaking to what we do. But I wanted to know a bit more, and so I Googled… [Keep reading]

I thought Nashville was so fun for WordCamp US last year that I just had to get back before December. ;p Ok, that's not specifically true, but I did enjoy the city and am excited to be speaking at Southeast… [Keep reading]

Short answer: Yes! I mean, "developer" means a lot of things. A competent WordPress developer can be a massive help to your business, but it's relatively rare that the bulk of that person's work is hardcore "software engineering," as in "we… [Keep reading]

In the wake of the VW diesel-emissions testing scam and the effect of various Facebook impacts on the 2016 US Presidential election, I've seen a marked shift toward people I respect as "thought leaders" (though I hate that phrase) thinking… [Keep reading]

I installed Simple Lightbox on WPShout a few weeks ago, and it's something I wish I'd done long before. This free plugin takes WordPress's default behavior with image links from "navigate to a new URL with just the image" to… [Keep reading]

As Gutenberg gets closer, more and more people are trying to wrap their head around it. Zac Gordon's Gutenberg development course is perfect if you're really getting into it. But if you're just looking into how to get started, this… [Keep reading]

The WordPress Marketing team has put together a pretty cool resource: a guide to a lot of the weird lingo you'll hear casually cast-off in WordPress conversations without context. While I hope that this can move to a more canonical… [Keep reading]

If you're in and around Colorado, or you just want an excuse to visit, you should come out to WordCamp Denver this year. Rather than just being a supporter, I'm on the organizing team this year. We've just opened our… [Keep reading]

Ever since I made a nice little spreadsheet of WordPress security plugin features for WordPress Security with Confidence, I've wanted to pull that out to a standalone site. While we didn't create WPHierarchy.com, we're its proud maintainers. The idea here… [Keep reading]

It's rare that you find good write-ups with evidence-based details on the field of security. (This I learned while working on WordPress Security with Confidence.) This is true for a whole host of reasons, but it's one of the many… [Keep reading]

A few months ago, Skillshare got in touch and asked me to make a course for them. They're trying to bulk up on great technical and WordPress content. On a lark, I decided to take them up on it. Flash… [Keep reading]

Last night, I gave a talk at my local WordPress Meetup here in Fort Collins about security for site owners. Because I think it's basically required that you rehearse a talk at least once before giving it, I went ahead… [Keep reading]

There's been some hubbub around PHP version support in WordPress world lately. Most prominently, Iain Poulson of Delicious Brain (makers of WP Migrate DB Pro) published a post telling plugin developers to stop supporting old versions of PHP. Then yesterday,… [Keep reading]

I've written a couple posts here on WPShout about functional programming, the best of which is "Gentle Introduction to Functional PHP for WordPress Developers: Using Filter and Map on Arrays of Posts". That post inspired me to give a conference… [Keep reading]

Last night my friend Stephanie gave a presentation at a meetup about our local Women Who Code chapter, which she's a leader of. She pointed us to this website, The Leaky Tech Pipeline, which I'd never seen. Why there aren't… [Keep reading]