Since I care about performance, features and security, I decided to upgrade my webservers' PHP version from 5.6 to the latest PHP 7.1.2. I run mostly WordPress websites, so what's the impact of such a PHP version upgrade on WordPress? At the time of writi... (more…)

In this article I want to analyze the themes and plugins that are available in the official WordPress.org repository. I'm looking at the most liked and... (more…)

Exciting work is being done with regards to the WordPress auto-update system that allows the WordPress team to sign each update. That signature can be verified by each WordPress installation to guarantee you're installing the actual WordPress update an...

A few weeks ago, WordPress released version 4.7.2 to address several security vulnerabilities, including one critical one. This vulnerability allowed a remote, unauthorised attack to update web pages via the REST API. Since then, hundreds of thousands of ... (more…)

WordPress has grown a lot over the last thirteen years – it now powers more than 28% of the top ten million sites on the web. During this growth, each team has worked hard to continually improve th… (more…)