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WordPress News
There were two huge vulnerabilities that were patched this week. One of them was with WordPress core, so your WordPress site should have automatically updated. If it didn’t, make sure you have a good backup and then immediately go update WordPress. Jetpack also had a security vulnerability that has been patched this week, so make sure you are keeping up with your updates.
With summer taking over everyone’s plans and most schools ending, it is time to do a little summer cleanup on your WordPress website.
A really cool project is underway at ThinkWP with their documentary about discovering WordPress and its community in France.
Last week I shared with you about a Sublime Text WordPress add-on package and this week I’ve got an Atom WordPress add-on of snippets to help you with your WordPress code.
Lifehack has an excellent reminder infographic on the most effective ways to use Google Search.
WordPress Plugins
BuddyPress 2.6 is now out in the wild. Several of the new features added to this social network builder plugin are the ability to embed activities into WordPress posts/pages, custom front pages for member profiles, a new Groups API, new Navigation API, as well as a bunch of performance and accessibility enhancements.
Here’s a new plugin that can help you build a sitemap for your WordPress site.
Is your content being hijacked by other site’s putting your content in a browser frame on their own site? Break out of that frame with this WordPress Frame Buster plugin.
Do you need a simple way of implementing HREFLANG meta tags into the header section of your WordPress website? Look no further than this HREFLANG Tags plugin.
If you use Contact Form 7 you probably have been missing out on a ton of functionality that other plugins like Gravity Forms offer in terms of conditional logic. But now with this Conditional Fields plugin you can make your Contact Form 7 more dynamic.
I wanted to thank those of you who write me and let me know about plugins, news, tutorials and other pieces of content many of you create. I love adding that type of information to our WordPress Weekly Recap posts. You can also let me know about things you come across by emailing benjamin@ithemes.com. Until next week … have a great day.
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