Category: WordPress
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1,000,000 Blocked Attempts
Today, my site hit a milestone. Jetpack Protect has blocked 1,000,000 malicious login attempts. Typically, when using the wrong user name and password on the site, those credentials are sent to the site itself and you’ll see the site’s response that it was a bad password. Since a bunch of bots could try every combination,…
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Emoji 13 Coming to WordPress
As of r48048-core, WordPress will polyfill Emoi 13 glyphs on devices that do not support them. What this means is whether or not your viewer’s device is able to display a š« or not, you can include one on your WordPress site and it’ll display for them. You have stuff to do ā like feed…
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Happy Birthday WordPress!
Yesterday marked the 17th anniversary of the first release of WordPress. I didn’t use WordPress back thenāI didn’t find my way to it until it was a youthful four years old in 2007. In the 13 years since, the software has made a major impact of my life, sure, but the community around it has…
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Jetpack’s Publicize Now Uses Twitter Cards
A long time ago, Jetpack’s Publicize featureāwhich automatically posts to your social media platforms when you publish a new postāstarted attaching an image to your tweets to help them catch people’s attention. At the time, a tweet with a picture would perform better than a tweet with just a link. This is all fine and…
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I’m a Code Wrangler
This is old news at this point, but I realized I never mentioned it here. A few months back, I shifted from a Happiness Lead to a developer. I’m excited about the move and especially that I’m able to continue to work on Jetpack. I’ve always worked with the code powering Jetpack, but usually minor…
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š§ WordPress Adds Emoji 11 Support
New emoji are out this month and WordPress will be one of the first to support them.