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Simon Kraft

WordPress has been a part of Simons live since 2008. If he is not podcasting, blogging or... newslettering(?) about WordPress you might find him in his day job at a European hosting company.

Latest from Simon

  1. Plugins Aged Content Message – For aging blogs This post is part of our advent of plugins 2024. Anyone maintaining a blog for years, constantly publishing new content, and writing about current events or world affairs may be familiar with …
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    The Making WordPress Slack Workspace now requires SSO with your WordPress.org account. As of now, there is no official statement regarding this change. 🤔

    Slack Singe Sign-on enabled Your Workspace Administrator at Making WordPress has enabled Single sign-ons (SSO for short!) for your workspace.
  3. Note

    After @josephahaden left Automattic last week, Matt Mullenweg now announced Mary Hubbard as the new Executive Director of the WordPress Project.

    See Matt’s post on WordPress.org

  4. Episode · № 7 · 22 min Accessibility Testing and WP Accessibility Day 2024 Episode 7 Accessibility Testing and WP Accessibility Day 2024 −15 s rewind +30 s fast forward 1.0× playback speed Download (MP3) 00:00 22:11 Download (MP3) Amber Hinds and Simon talk about the …
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    In a couple of weeks, starting on October 1, theme and plugin author accounts on WordPress.org will require two-factor authentication.
    In addition, it’s now possible to add a separate SVN password.

    – make.WordPress.org/plugins

  6. Note

    Earlier today, the WordPress.org team reset the passwords for every WordPress.org user account with author or committer access to a plugin.

    In addition, new plugin submissions to the directory are halted, and all commits have to be approved by the plugin team for the time being.

    Announcement on WordPress.org

  7. Note

    Earlier this week, the team of the security tool Wordfence reported a supply chain attack affecting five plugins in the WordPress.org directory. In a follow-up post, WordFence’s Chloe Chamberland explains the attack vector: reused WP.org user passwords.

    WordPress.org security advisory

  8. Episode · № 6 · 29 min The next generation of WordPress contributors Episode 6 The next generation of WordPress contributors −15 s rewind +30 s fast forward 1.0× playback speed Download (MP3) 00:00 29:27 Download (MP3) Simon sits down with Josepha Hayden-Chomphosy to talk …
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    The official WCEU flickr album dropped just in time for you spending your whole Sunday looking at the >3k photos 🥰

    Photo of a camera on a WordCamp Europe 2024 name bade.
    Photo: CC BY-SA 2.0 – Gianni Vascellari
  10. Note

    While next years host city for WordCamp Europe 2025 was announced the Call for Organisers also opened up. If you’re interested in becoming one of the co-organisers: give it a shot and fill out the form.