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max-height: 1em;\" /><img src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/3299.png\" alt=\"㊙\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" /></a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/hafiz\">Hafiz Rahman</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/hailite\">Hai@LiteSpeed<img src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/26a1.png\" alt=\"⚡\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" /></a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/hansjovisyoast\">Hans-Christiaan Braun</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/hardeepasrani\">Hardeep Asrani</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/hardik-amipara\">Hardik Amipara</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/harsh175\">Harsh Patel</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/haruharuharuby\">haruharuharuby</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/idea15\">Heather Burns</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/helen\">Helen Hou-Sandi</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/henrywright\">Henry Wright</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/herregroen\">Herre Groen</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/hitendra-chopda\">Hitendra Chopda</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/ianbelanger\">Ian Belanger</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/iandunn\">Ian Dunn</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/ibantxillo\">ibantxillo</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/igmoweb\">Ignacio Cruz Moreno</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/igorsch\">Igor</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/ibenic\">Igor Benic</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/imath\">imath</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/ionvv\">ionvv</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/ireneyoast\">Irene Strikkers</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/isabel104\">isabel104</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/ishitaka\">ishitaka</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/meatman89fs\">Ivan Mudrik</a>, <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jdgrimes\">J.D. 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I wouldn’t be anything without the help of those around me, and I will always be grateful for everything they’ve done.</p>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-container rtsocial-container-align-right rtsocial-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal-button\"><a title=\"Tweet: Firefighter to Web Developer\" class=\"rtsocial-twitter-button\" href=\"https://twitter.com/share?text=Firefighter%20to%20Web%20Developer&via=heropress&url=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Ffirefighter-to-web-developer%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"></a></div></div><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal fb-light\"><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal-button\"><a title=\"Like: Firefighter to Web Developer\" class=\"rtsocial-fb-button rtsocial-fb-like-light\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Ffirefighter-to-web-developer%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"></a></div></div><div class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-horizontal-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-button\" href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Ffirefighter-to-web-developer%2F&title=Firefighter+to+Web+Developer\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share: Firefighter to Web Developer\"></a></div></div><div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-horizontal-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-button\" href=\"https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://heropress.com/essays/firefighter-to-web-developer/&media=https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/041019-min-150x150.jpg&description=Firefighter to Web Developer\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pin: Firefighter to Web Developer\"></a></div></div><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"perma-link\" href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/firefighter-to-web-developer/\" title=\"Firefighter to Web Developer\"></a></div><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/firefighter-to-web-developer/\">Firefighter to Web Developer</a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://heropress.com\">HeroPress</a>.</p>\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:7:\"pubDate\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:31:\"Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:00:53 +0000\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:32:\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:9:\"Sam Smith\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}}}i:2;a:6:{s:4:\"data\";s:13:\"\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";s:5:\"child\";a:2:{s:0:\"\";a:5:{s:5:\"title\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:84:\"WPTavern: GoDaddy Acquires ThemeBeans, CoBlocks, Block Gallery, and Block Unit Tests\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"guid\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:29:\"https://wptavern.com/?p=88673\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"link\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:92:\"https://wptavern.com/godaddy-acquires-themebeans-coblocks-block-gallery-and-block-unit-tests\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:11:\"description\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:4970:\"<p>GoDaddy has acquired <a href=\"https://coblocks.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CoBlocks</a>, <a href=\"https://themebeans.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ThemeBeans</a>, <a href=\"https://wpblockgallery.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Block Gallery</a> and <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-unit-test\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Block Unit Tests</a>, one of the leading Gutenberg product lines in the WordPress ecosystem. 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Store owners use these screen daily, it&#8217;s terrible UX.</p>\n<p>I suggest that it gets ripped out in its entirety and filed under &#8220;cool implementation/fun to code but horrible idea for actual users.</p></blockquote>\n<p>For those who do not stand to benefit from profits from the 400+ extensions on the WooCommerce.com marketplace, the intrusions in the product admins screen seem all the more offensive. Marketplace suggestions have not been well-received by third-party extension developers.</p>\n<p>&#8220;This is in direct competition to every third-party developer that is not selling on WooCommerce’s marketplace,&#8221; Jamie Madden, founder of the <a href=\"https://www.wcvendors.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">WC Vendors Marketplace</a>, said. &#8220;I am one of these. This is advertising for your commercial products, no matter how you try and wrap this. 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Eastern</p>\n<p>Subscribe to <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wordpress-weekly/id694849738\">WordPress Weekly via Itunes</a></p>\n<p>Subscribe to <a href=\"https://www.wptavern.com/feed/podcast\">WordPress Weekly via RSS</a></p>\n<p>Subscribe to <a href=\"http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wordpress-weekly-podcast?refid=stpr\">WordPress Weekly via Stitcher Radio</a></p>\n<p>Subscribe to <a href=\"https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ir3keivkvwwh24xy7qiymurwpbe\">WordPress Weekly via Google Play</a></p>\n<p><strong>Listen To Episode #350:</strong><br />\n</p>\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:7:\"pubDate\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:31:\"Thu, 04 Apr 2019 22:46:18 +0000\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:32:\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:13:\"Jeff Chandler\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}}}i:9;a:6:{s:4:\"data\";s:13:\"\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";s:5:\"child\";a:2:{s:0:\"\";a:5:{s:5:\"title\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:31:\"Gary: React Isn’t The Problem\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"guid\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:25:\"https://pento.net/?p=5045\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"link\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:52:\"https://pento.net/2019/04/04/react-isnt-the-problem/\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:11:\"description\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:6361:\"<p>As React (via Gutenberg) becomes more present in the WordPress world, I&#8217;m seeing some common themes pop up in conversations about it. 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Michael Waterfall, iOS Engineer at ASOS, tested the &#8220;kill switch&#8221; function and demonstrated that it still works with prior versions.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It also confirms they lied. They _still_ have the ability to wipe any blog that hasn\'t updated to the new plugin version (4.8.0), which they hurriedly released to delete the kill switch after they were exposed the other day. <a href=\"https://t.co/bNMfRQUBpr\">pic.twitter.com/bNMfRQUBpr</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Waterfall (@mwaterfall) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mwaterfall/status/1112445109755359233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2019</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<p>Veenstra&#8217;s investigation also uncovered questionable remote calls in the plugin&#8217;s cron events, undisclosed content and configuration rewrites, and a list of popular plugins that are immediately deactivated when P3 is activated, without the user&#8217;s knowledge. He found that some of these plugins are deactivated alongside admin_init, so any user attempts to reactivate the plugins will not stick.</p>\n<p>Wordfence estimates the P3 plugin to have an install base of 10,000-15,000 sites. The changes made in version 4.8.0 of the plugin are not transparently identified in the changelog, so it&#8217;s not easy for users to know what has changed. The content filtering and the plugin deactivations remain in the most recent release. These types of veiled functions performed without permission could have unintended consequences on sites using the plugin, which non-technical users may not be able to fix themselves.</p>\n<h3>Pipdig P3 Plugin Performed a DDoS Attack on a Competitor&#8217;s Site</h3>\n<p>Jem Turner, a freelance web developer based in the UK, <a href=\"https://www.jemjabella.co.uk/2019/security-alert-pipdig-insecure-ddosing-competitors/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">published a lengthy analysis of the P3 plugin</a> the same day that Wordfence released its analysis. She drilled down further into the remote requests, demonstrating how Pipdig has been using the P3 plugin to perform a DDoS attack on a competitor who also provides WordPress themes and installation services to bloggers. The code triggers an hourly cron job on users&#8217; sites, effectively using their customers&#8217; servers to send malicious requests to the competitor&#8217;s site.</p>\n<blockquote><p>The code comment tells us this is “checking the CDN (content delivery network) cache”. It’s not. This is performing a GET request on a file (id39dqm3c0_license_h.txt) sat on pipdigz.co.uk, which yesterday morning returned ‘https://kotrynabassdesign.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php’ in the response body.</p>\n<p>Every single hour night and day, without any manual intervention, any blogger running the pipdig plugin will send a request with a faked User Agent to ‘https://kotrynabassdesign.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php’ with a random number string attached. This is effectively performing a small scale DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) on kotrynabassdesign.com’s server.</p></blockquote>\n<p>Turner also contacted <a href=\"http://kotrynabassdesign.com’\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kotryna Bass</a>, Pipdig&#8217;s competitor, who said she had contacted her host after finding that her admin-ajax.php file was under some kind of attack. Bass&#8217; exchanges with her host are also published in Turner&#8217;s report.</p>\n<p>Turner&#8217;s post explained how Pipdig&#8217;s P3 plugin code manipulated links to point to their own products and services when a user includes a link to a competitor in the the content:</p>\n<blockquote><p>Here we have pipdig’s plugin searching for mentions of ‘blogerize.com‘ with the string split in two and rejoined – concatenated – to make it harder to find mentions of competitors when doing a mass ‘Find in Files’ across the plugin (amongst other things). When the plugin finds links to blogerize.com in blogger’s content (posts, pages), they’re swapped out with a link to ‘pipdig.co/shop/blogger-to-wordpress-migration/’ i.e. pipdig’s own blog migration services. Swapping these links out boost the SEO benefit to pipdig, and the vast majority of bloggers wouldn’t notice the switcheroo (especially as if the page/post was edited, the link to blogerize would appear in the backend as normal).</p></blockquote>\n<p>The plugin did not ask users&#8217; permission before performing any of these actions and most of them were implemented with obfuscated code. Turner&#8217;s investigation also covers how the P3 plugin could harvest data and change admin passwords. Many of the findings overlap with Wordfence&#8217;s analysis.</p>\n<p>&#8220;I was aware that Wordfence had been contacted for an opinion, although I was unaware they were writing a post and vice versa,&#8221; Turner said. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t surprised that they wrote about it though, given the risk to WordPress users.&#8221;</p>\n<p>She has been in contact with authorities regarding Pipdig&#8217;s unethical coding practices and privacy violations.</p>\n<p>&#8220;From my side of things, I&#8217;ve been in contact with Action Fraud (submitted a report through their website) and NCSC (who pointed me back to Action Fraud and gave me a number to call). From pipdig&#8217;s side, there are threats of legal action in their blog post but I&#8217;ve received nothing yet.&#8221;</p>\n<h3>Pipdig&#8217;s Public Response Skirts Critical Concerns</h3>\n<p>Pipdig Creative Director Phil Clothier <a href=\"https://www.pipdig.co/blog/sad-times/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">published a public response</a> from the company which opens by characterizing the recent investigations as &#8220;various accusations and rumours spreading about pipdig&#8221; and includes an emotional plea regarding how  distressing recent developments have been for his company. He claims that his team and their supporters are being harassed. </p>\n<p>After pushing out the 4.8.0 version of the P3 plugin, removing some but not all of the offensive code, Clothier opts for a Q&#038;A style format for his post, putting every question in the present tense:</p>\n<blockquote><p>Do you DDOS competitors?<br />\nNo.</p>\n<p>Do you “kill” sites?<br />\nNo!</p>\n<p>Do you have the ability to kill sites via the pipdig Power Pack?<br />\nNo</p></blockquote>\n<p>Regarding the &#8220;kill switch&#8221; feature they built in, which detects all tables with the WordPress prefix and drops each of them, Clothier said it was simply a function to reset a site back to its default settings. He deliberately misrepresented what it does: </p>\n<blockquote><p>There was function in an older version of the plugin which could be used to reset a site back to the default settings. This function had no risk of of malicious or unintentional use. I can say categorically that there was no risk to your site if you were using a pipdig theme. This feature has been dug up and labelled a “Kill Switch” for maximum negative impact on us.</p></blockquote>\n<p>Clothier claims the function was available in the P3 plugin in July 2018 when a third party started posting Pipdig themes for sale on their own site:</p>\n<blockquote><p>A 3rd party was able to download all of our themes illegitimately and post them on a clone of our own site. This included previews of our themes and the ability to purchase them. We were first alerted to this by people which had purchased a pipdig theme from there, but were finding that certain features did not work correctly. After investigation, we found that the victim had purchased the theme from the 3rd party, thinking it was us. The 3rd party not only gained the financial benefit of the theme payment, but also used it as a way to inject malware and ads into the victim’s site. The reset function was put in place in order to remove the 3rd party’s ability to host preview sites with our themes. It worked, and they have since disappeared. The function was then removed in a later version of the plugin.</p></blockquote>\n<p>This is a false claim, as Wordfence pointed out in an updated <a href=\"https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/04/pipdig-update-dishonest-denials-erased-evidence-and-ongoing-offenses/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">article</a>. The first instance of the code responsible for database deletion was <a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20190331195426/https://bitbucket.org/pipdig/p3/commits/edc47824200e15d64cab7270debc4a0526a8d323\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">committed to the plugin in November 2017</a>. </p>\n<p>The company failed to address the most critical concerns presented in the Wordfence analysis in its first pass at issuing a public statement. Instead, on the matter of coordinating a DDoS attack on competitors, Pipdig blames users and suggests they may have added the competitor&#8217;s URL to their sites.</p>\n<p>&#8220;We’re now looking into why this function is returning this url,&#8221; Clothier said. &#8220;However, it seems to suggest that some of the &#8216;Author URLs&#8217; have been set to ‘kotrynabassdesign.com’. We don’t currently know why this is the case, or whether the site owner has intentionally changed this.&#8221;</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/04/pipdig-update-dishonest-denials-erased-evidence-and-ongoing-offenses/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Further investigations</a> published by Wordfence today showed that Pipdig also added DDoS code to its Blogger templates and was actively issuing malicious requests up until yesterday:</p>\n<blockquote><p>During the investigation of Pipdig’s WordPress plugin and themes, we also came across some curious code associated with their Blogger themes. This code is part of Pipdig’s suspected DDoS campaign against their competitor, and was active until April 1, four days after Pipdig’s denial of any such behavior.</p>\n<p>Some of Pipdig’s Blogger themes have been confirmed to make external JavaScript calls to Pipdig’s server, specifically to the script hXXps://pipdigz[.]co[.]uk/js/zeplin1.js.</p></blockquote>\n<p>On March 31, as the investigations became public, Pipdig deleted its public Bitbucket repository and replaced it with a &#8220;clean one,&#8221; removing three years of commit history. Wordfence and many others cloned the repository before it was deleted and saved snapshots of pages to cite in the investigation.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That clean repository <a href=\"https://twitter.com/pipdig?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@pipdig</a> published earlier today in place of the one containing all of their malicious code&#8230; They changed the reported release date of version 4.8.0. <a href=\"https://t.co/YqKASTUZE7\">pic.twitter.com/YqKASTUZE7</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Nicky Bloor (@nickstadb) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/nickstadb/status/1112796890855325697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2019</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<p>Pipdig&#8217;s public statement contains a number of other false claims that are outlined in Wordfence&#8217;s followup piece with code examples. Clothier closes the article by casting aspersion on the press, presumably to encourage customers not to trust what they read from other sources.</p>\n<p>I contacted Pipdig for their comment on recent events, but Clothier declined to answer any of my questions. One of those was why the plugin disables Bluehost&#8217;s caching plugin without informing customers. </p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another one from the <a href=\"https://twitter.com/pipdig?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@pipdig</a> plugin. If you use one of their themes on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/bluehost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bluehost</a> then they intentionally slow your website down by disabling the BlueHost cache plugin, then they can inject content with the title \"Is your host slowing you down?\" CC <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jemjabella?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jemjabella</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/heyitsmikeyv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@heyitsmikeyv</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/48DUXsDyBj\">pic.twitter.com/48DUXsDyBj</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Nicky Bloor (@nickstadb) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/nickstadb/status/1112479746972151808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2019</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<p>Clothier said he didn&#8217;t have any comments beyond what he said in the public statement but encouraged anyone interested to read the new <a href=\"https://bitbucket.org/pipdig/p3/commits/7a487d2c7bce89b7a5a0a1566272fbd4007fe3cd\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">comments added to the code</a> in version 4.9.0:</p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;ve also updated version 4.9.0 of the plugin which includes extra commenting in the code, which will hopefully help clear things up like issues with Bluehost caching and the_content() filter.</p>\n<p>If anyone is unsure, we recommend updating to the latest version as always. 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They prey upon user trust and in this case the victims were primarily bloggers.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I think that\'s why so many of us are so angry. Bloggers are the lifeblood of <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/WordPress?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WordPress</a>, you create content and for the most part don\'t have big budgets to spend. So when someone takes advantage of that those at the \"low budget\" end of the market, those that cant afford devs&#8230;</p>\n<p>&mdash; Andy Powell (@p0welly) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/p0welly/status/1112384805935767552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2019</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<p>One of the more puzzling aspects of this story is that many of Pipdig&#8217;s users seem to be unfazed by the gravity of the findings in these reports. Without full knowledge of the inner workings of a product, many customers make decisions based on how they feel about a company, regardless of being confronted with facts that should cause them to question their experiences.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I’m not concerned. I trust them. And I’m certainly not panicking and acting on the words of two blog posts citing their competitors. They’ve served me well for years.</p>\n<p>&mdash; Caroline Hirons (@CarolineHirons) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/CarolineHirons/status/1111750517242454016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2019</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<p>Others are angry to have had their sites used in an attack. Getting set up on a new theme is not a trivial task for non-technical users who may have had to pay a developer to launch their sites in the first place.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Honestly? I’m really angry. I trusted them for years, and in return my site has been used maliciously against other small businesses. 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He took some painter\'s tape and scrawled \"THIS IS A CABLE BOX\" on the drywall. Then looked me in the eyes and said \"No I didn\'t.\"</p>\n<p>&mdash; Mikey Veenstra (@heyitsmikeyv) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/heyitsmikeyv/status/1112330977966084096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2019</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<p>This incident shines a spotlight on how unregulated the commercial plugin and theme ecosystem is and how little protection users have from companies that abuse their power. If you are a Pipdig customer affected by this incident, there is no assurance that the company will not build more backdoors into your site in the future. The plugin updates are not reviewed by any kind of authority. 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Thinking of it, I found it to be one of the most fortunate things I had in my career and life. I can do what I love, can make money to support myself, my family and have many good friends.</p>\n<p>When I found out about WordPress, I was still a second-year student at the university. The major I studied was not IT but mechanical engineering. I chose it with the desire to get a scholarship abroad (it was in Russia). But in the process of learning, I found myself inclined to and more passionate about coding. Therefore, I taught myself coding.</p>\n<p>In my second year of university, I wanted to set up a website to download software. It is not a very proud thing, because at that time I just wanted to share the software with everyone, including free software and pirated software (software pirating is still a big problem in Russia and in Vietnam). It can be said that software was what attracted me the most at that time. I was passionate about finding new software, testing, running them, finding great features and sharing experiences with people.</p>\n<blockquote><p>At that time, the web was still something very new to me and I didn’t have many concepts about it. I just needed to find a free platform to build a blog about software.</p></blockquote>\n<p>At that time, there were two platforms that caught my attention &#8211; WordPress and BoBlog. BoBlog was a Chinese platform (it’s dead now), and WordPress seemed more international, so I chose WordPress.</p>\n<p>It can be said that the choice of WordPress has made me learn more seriously about the web and related technologies. By editing the theme, making additional features for my blog, I learned a lot about HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. During my time at the university, I had been exploring these things and gradually improving my knowledge base.</p>\n<p>For me, the web has a big advantage comparing to other software, which is any line of code you write, you can see the result right in the browser by just pressing F5. This was the point that I was very excited about because when I tried coding in other languages, the compiling process made me feel time-consuming and not very intuitive.</p>\n<h3 id=\"Start_My_Own_Blog_10\">Start My Own Blog</h3>\n<p>After that, I felt that the knowledge I learned was quite interesting and wanted to share it with everyone. So I started my personal blog, it is still active at <a href=\"https://heropress.com/feed/deluxeblogtips.com\">deluxeblogtips.com</a>. Blogging is an important thing in my career, maybe the most. It brings a lot of fortunate to me:</p>\n<p><strong>English:</strong> English is not my native language. But by blogging, my reading and communication skill in English has improved significantly. Although there are still many errors, I feel quite confident when talking to international friends. This has been happening for a long time and I am very grateful for it.</p>\n<p><strong>The first freelance jobs:</strong> Blogging has been around for a while, some people knew about me thanks to my helpful sharing. And they started contacting me and asked if I wanted to work for them. At that time, as a student, I was very happy, because I could earn some money. Later, when I graduated from university, I started my career with those freelance jobs. I did freelancing for about 4-5 years since 2010. I participated in many projects, learned a lot of things and knew a lot of friends. During this time, I also gathered a group of Vietnamese friends to work on those freelance jobs. Until now, although the group is no longer available, we are still good friends and still meet often.</p>\n<p><strong>Start ideas for products:</strong> precisely <a href=\"https://metabox.io\">Meta Box</a>. This is my company’s flagship product at the moment. Its idea started from my tutorial on the blog. Thanks to those sharing, it’s now a plugin of 400,000 active installs that based on a tutorial.</p>\n<h3 id=\"Community_20\">Community</h3>\n<p>Blogging makes many people known about me. And my share (and other products) is also useful for many people and thanks to that, I connect with many developers around the world and in Vietnam. In 2012, when Philip Author Moore came to Vietnam, we met the first time, and it was a “fateful” meeting between us. Together, we built the WordPress community in Vietnam from those early years, started the Hanoi WordPress Meetup and shared a lot of things about WordPress. There were many companies in Vietnam starting to redirect and working on WordPress from such meetup sessions.</p>\n<p>So far, the community has been strong and we are no longer involved because we’re quite busy and we do not have too much experience in organizing and maintaining offline activities. Online activities are still very exciting thanks to Facebook!</p>\n<h3 id=\"Building_products_and_company_26\">Building products and company</h3>\n<p>Being a developer and having the opportunity to work on projects with customers, in 2010, I found many things missing from WordPress. And at that time, I had the idea of <a href=\"https://metabox.io\">Meta Box</a>, which is a developer framework to quickly create custom fields. I shared a series of tutorials on my blog. What I didn’t expect was that there were so many people having the same interest.</p>\n<p>After that, I continuously upgraded the plugin, based on feedback from other users and developers. I also get a lot of help from other developers, especially <a href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/unserkaiser\">Kaiser</a>. I am really grateful to them because, without them, Meta Box could not become a plugin with 400,000 active installs.</p>\n<p>When I first developed the plugin, I didn’t have much idea about commercializing it. All were free. At that time, I didn’t know much about interacting on <a href=\"http://wordpress.org\">wordpress.org</a> and the Trac system, so I released the code on Google Code. A long time later, I uploaded it to <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/meta-box/\">wordpress.org</a>. Therefore, when comparing the custom fields plugins, Meta Box is sometimes not considered the first plugin, while it should be.</p>\n<blockquote><p>The idea of Meta Box was later inherited by many people and developed similar plugins. And I really like that, because that’s the idea of open source!</p></blockquote>\n<p>The success of Meta Box was the basis for me to establish my own company &#8211; <a href=\"https://elightup.com\">eLightUp</a> to develop products for WordPress.</p>\n<p>In addition to Meta Box, while creating a freelance team, we also tried to become a theme provider and joined ThemeForest. It was not very successful, because I feel ThemeForest is a battlefield in which the parties race to add features to make a theme become powerful, able to do many things and therefore very bloated and not optimal. As a developer, I always feel uncomfortable with those things.</p>\n<p>The theme work then was separated into two brands of our company: <a href=\"https://fitwp.com\">FitWP</a> for themes on ThemeForest and <a href=\"https://gretathemes.com\">GretaThemes</a> for themes that are simple, optimal and serve a specific purpose. Currently, the focus of our company are Meta Box and GretaThemes.</p>\n<p>And for freelance work, we moved into a division of our company that specializes in <a href=\"https://elightup.com/projects/\">projects with customers</a>. We carry out projects for both domestic and international customers.</p>\n<h3 id=\"The_shift_in_roles_44\">The shift in roles</h3>\n<p>Before establishing the company, the income from the products and projects helped me and my family have a comfortable life in Vietnam. But for a long time in the WordPress community, I’ve seen many brands that I’ve always admired, especially WooThemes (now merged into Automattic). Seeing their great contributions to the community, I always want to do the same. And to do that, it’s difficult to do as an individual. So I founded <a href=\"https://elightup.com\">eLightUp</a>, wishing to create good products and contribute to the community.</p>\n<p>When I founded the company, I did not measure all the management issues or predicted that. I had to learn a lot, from managing people, resources, finance to strategy, market research and marketing. As a developer, they are all new and challenging things. There were times when I was very stressful because I had to do both developing products and other work which were not my strength.</p>\n<p>So far, things have gotten better, I have become more comfortable to work, although I still have to code and manage at the same time.</p>\n<p>Above all, I see what I have now is big luck, and that is totally love and support from the community for me. Therefore, no matter how difficult or challenging things are, I still feel very happy with what I have and will try to do better.</p>\n<h2 id=\"vietnamese\">Tiếng Việt</h2>\n<p>Đã 13 năm kể từ khi tôi biết đến WordPress lần đầu tiên. Nghĩ lại, tôi thấy đó là một trong những điều may mắn nhất mà tôi có được trong sự nghiệp và cuộc sống của mình. Tôi được làm điều mà tôi yêu thích, có thể kiếm tiền nuôi sống được bản thân, gia đình và có thêm nhiều bạn bè tốt.</p>\n<p>Khi tôi biết đến WordPress, tôi vẫn còn là 1 cậu sinh viên năm thứ 2. Chuyên ngành mà tôi học không phải là IT mà là cơ khí chế tạo máy. Tôi đã chọn chuyên ngành đó với mong muốn có được 1 suất học bổng ở nước ngoài, khi đó là ở Nga. Nhưng trong quá trình học tập, tôi thấy mình có thiên hướng và đam mê về lập trình nhiều hơn. Vì thế, tôi đã tự học và bổ sung các kiến thức về IT cho mình.</p>\n<p>Năm thứ 2 đại học, tôi muốn lập 1 website về download phần mềm. Cũng không phải là một điều tự hào gì lắm, vì lúc đó tôi chỉ muốn chia sẻ các phần mềm với mọi người, trong đó có phần mềm miễn phí và có cả phần mềm crack (vấn nạn crack phần mềm ở Nga và ở Việt Nam vẫn còn rất lớn). Có thể nói phần mềm là thứ thu hút tôi lúc đó nhiều nhất. Tôi say mê tìm phần mềm mới, thử nghiệm, chạy chúng, tìm các tính năng hay và chia sẻ kinh nghiệm với mọi người. Lúc đó, web vẫn còn là một thứ gì đó rất thô sơ và tôi cũng chưa có nhiều khái niệm về nó. Tôi loay hoay tìm một nền tảng có sẵn để xây dựng một blog về phần mềm. Vào thời điểm đó, có 2 nền tảng đã gây sự chú ý với tôi &#8211; đó là WordPress và BoBlog. BoBlog là 1 blog của Trung Quốc, còn WordPress thì có vẻ quốc tế hơn, nên tôi đã chọn WordPress.</p>\n<p>Có thể nói sự lựa chọn WordPress đã khiến tôi học hỏi nghiêm túc hơn về web và các công nghệ liên quan. Bằng cách chỉnh sửa giao diện, làm thêm các tính năng bổ sung cho blog của mình mà tôi đã học được nhiều điều về HTML, CSS, JavaScript và PHP. Trong suốt thời gian học đại học, tôi đã mày mò những cái này và dần hoàn thiện nền tảng kiến thức của mình.</p>\n<p>Đối với tôi, web có 1 điểm hơn các phần mềm khác, đó là bất kỳ dòng code nào mà bạn viết, bạn có thể thấy kết quả của nó ngay trên trình duyệt (chỉ với 1 lần nhấn F5). Đây là điểm mà tôi rất thích thú, vì trước đó tôi đã thử lập trình trên một số ngôn ngữ khác, nhưng quá trình biên dịch khiến tôi cảm thấy mất thời gian và không trực quan lắm.</p>\n<h3>Bắt đầu viết blog</h3>\n<p>Sau đó, tôi cảm thấy những kiến thức mà tôi học hỏi được cũng khá thú vị và muốn chia sẻ nó với mọi người. Và tôi bắt đầu viết blog để chia sẻ. Blog của tôi đến nay vẫn hoạt động tại <a href=\"http://deluxeblogtips.com\">deluxeblogtips.com</a>. Có thể nói viết blog là bước ngoặt quan trọng trong sự nghiệp của tôi. Nó đã giúp tôi có được nhiều thứ quyết định trong sự nghiệp của mình:</p>\n<p><strong>Tiếng Anh:</strong> tiếng Anh vốn không phải là ngôn ngữ mẹ đẻ của tôi. Nhưng nhờ trau dồi viết blog mà khả năng đọc hiểu và trao đổi bằng tiếng Anh của tôi tiến bộ rõ rệt. Mặc dù còn nhiều lỗi, nhưng tôi cảm thấy khá tự tin khi nói chuyện với bạn bè quốc tế. Việc này xảy ra trong khoảng thời gian dài và tôi rất biết ơn điều đó.</p>\n<p><strong>Những công việc freelance đầu tiên:</strong> Viết blog được 1 khoảng thời gian, nhờ những chia sẻ có ích của mình mà một số người đã biết đến tôi. Và họ bắt đầu contact với tôi và hỏi xem tôi có muốn làm việc cho họ không. Lúc đó, với 1 sinh viên thì tôi rất vui mừng, vì có thể kiếm được chút ít tiền. Về sau này, khi tôi tốt nghiệp đại học, tôi đã bắt đầu sự nghiệp của mình bằng những công việc freelance đó. Tôi đã làm freelance trong suốt khoảng 4-5 năm kể từ 2010. Tôi đã được tham gia nhiều dự án, học hỏi được rất nhiều điều và biết được thêm rất nhiều bạn bè. Trong khoảng thời gian này, tôi cũng đã tập hợp được 1 số bạn bè cùng làm WordPress tại Việt Nam thành 1 nhóm và cùng làm các công việc freelance đó. Đến nay, tuy nhóm cũ không còn, nhưng chúng tôi vẫn là những người bạn tốt và vẫn hay thường xuyên gặp nhau.</p>\n<p><strong>Bắt đầu ý tưởng cho các sản phẩm:</strong> cụ thể là <a href=\"https://metabox.io\">Meta Box</a>. Đây là sản phẩm flagship của công ty của tôi hiện tại. Ý tưởng của nó bắt nguồn từ những chia sẻ của tôi trên blog. Nhờ những chia sẻ đó mà tôi đã xây dựng 1 sản phẩm được 400.000 người sử dụng với gốc là từ 1 bài tutorial.</p>\n<h3>Cộng đồng</h3>\n<p>Viết blog khiến nhiều người biết đến tôi. Và những chia sẻ của tôi (và cả các sản phẩm nữa) cũng có ích cho nhiều người và nhờ đó tôi cũng kết nối được với nhiều bạn developer trên thế giới và ở Việt Nam. Năm 2012, khi anh Philip Author Moore tới Việt Nam, chúng tôi đã gặp nhau lần đầu tiên, và đó là buổi gặp “định mệnh” giữa chúng tôi. Cả 2 chúng tôi đã xây dựng cộng đồng WordPress Việt Nam từ những năm đầu đó, cùng start Hanoi WordPress meetup và chia sẻ rất nhiều điều về WordPress. Có rất nhiều công ty ở Việt Nam bắt đầu chuyển hướng và làm về WordPress từ những buổi meetup như vậy.</p>\n<p>Đến nay, cộng đồng đã vững mạnh và chúng tôi không còn tham gia nhiều nữa vì công việc khá bận rộn và bản thân chúng tôi cũng không có quá nhiều kinh nghiệm trong việc tổ chức và duy trì các hoạt động offline. Các hoạt động online thì vẫn diễn ra rất sôi động nhờ vào Facebook!</p>\n<h3>Xây dựng sản phẩm và công ty</h3>\n<p>Vốn là 1 developer và đã có cơ hội làm việc với các dự án với khách hàng, vào những năm 2010, tôi thấy có nhiều điều còn thiếu trong WordPress. Và lúc đó, tôi đã có ý tưởng về <a href=\"https://metabox.io\">Meta Box</a>, là một framework giúp developer tạo nhanh các custom fields. Tôi đã chia sẻ 1 loạt bài tutorial về việc xây dựng nó trên blog của mình. Và điều tôi không ngờ lúc đó là có rất nhiều người có cùng mối quan tâm như vậy.</p>\n<p>Sau đó, tôi đã liên tục nâng cấp plugin, dựa theo những phản hồi của các developer khác. Tôi cũng nhận được sự giúp đỡ rất nhiều của các bạn developer khác, mà trong đó không thể không nhắc tới <a href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/unserkaiser\">Kaiser</a>. Tôi thực sự rất biết ơn các bạn, cả những người dùng nữa, vì không có các bạn thì Meta Box đã không thể trở thành 1 plugin với 400.000 lượt active installs được.</p>\n<p>Khi mới phát triển plugin, tôi chưa có ý niệm nhiều về thương mại hoá nó. Toàn bộ đều được chia sẻ miễn phí. Lúc đó, tôi cũng chưa biết nhiều về tương tác trên <a href=\"http://wordpress.org\">wordpress.org</a> với hệ thống Trac, nên tôi release code trên Google Code. Mãi sau này tôi mới đưa lên <a href=\"http://wordpress.org\">wordpress.org</a>. Vì thế nên nhiều khi so sánh tuổi đời của các plugin về custom fields, Meta Box đôi khi không được coi là plugin đầu tiên, trong khi đúng ra là nó phải là như vậy.</p>\n<p>Ý tưởng của Meta Box sau này còn được nhiều người kế thừa và phát triển ra các plugin tương tự. Và tôi rất thích điều đó, vì đó là tư tưởng của open source!</p>\n<p>Sự thành công của Meta Box là cơ sở để tôi thành lập công ty của riêng mình &#8211; <a href=\"https://elightup.com\">eLightUp</a> để phát triển các sản phẩm cho WordPress.</p>\n<p>Ngoài Meta Box, trong khi thành lập nhóm làm freelance, chúng tôi cũng đã thử dấn thân vào mảng làm theme và đã tham gia ThemeForest. Có thể nói là mảng đó không được thành công lắm, vì tôi cảm thấy ThemeForest là một chiến trường trong đó các bên đua nhau thêm những tính năng để cho 1 theme trở nên mạnh mẽ, làm được nhiều thứ và do đó rất nặng nề và không tối ưu. Mà tôi là 1 developer nên luôn cảm thấy không thoải mái với những điều đó.</p>\n<p>Mảng làm theme sau này phân tách ra thành 2 brands của công ty chúng tôi: <a href=\"https://fitwp.com\">FitWP</a> cho những theme trên ThemeForest và <a href=\"https://gretathemes.com\">GretaThemes</a> cho những theme đơn giản, tối ưu và phục vụ 1 mục đích cụ thể. Hiện nay thì trọng tâm của công ty chúng tôi là Meta Box và GretaThemes.</p>\n<p>Còn mảng làm freelance sau này chúng tôi tách thành một nhánh trong công ty của chúng tôi là chuyên làm các <a href=\"https://elightup.com/projects/\">dự án với khách hàng</a>. Chúng tôi thực hiện các dự án cho cả khách hàng trong nước và quốc tế.</p>\n<h3>Sự chuyển dịch vai trò</h3>\n<p>Trước khi thành lập công ty, nguồn thu nhập mà các sản phẩm và dự án mang lại cũng đã giúp tôi và gia đình có 1 cuộc sống khá thoải mái ở Việt Nam. Nhưng ở trong cộng đồng WordPress đã lâu, tôi đã thấy rất nhiều brand mà khiến tôi luôn ngưỡng mộ, trong đó nổi bật là WooThemes (nay đã không còn nữa). Thấy các đóng góp to lớn của họ cho cộng đồng, tôi cũng mong muốn mình làm được những điều tương tự. Và để làm việc đó, sức lực của 1 cá nhân rất khó. Nên tôi đã thành lập <a href=\"https://elightup.com\">eLightUp</a>, với mong muốn tạo ra những sản phẩm tốt, đóng góp cho cộng đồng và cả những đóng góp miễn phí nữa.</p>\n<p>Khi thành lập công ty, tôi đã không lường được hết những vấn đề về mặt quản lý công ty. Tôi đã phải học rất nhiều điều, từ việc quản lý con người, nguồn lực, tài chính đến những vấn đề về định hướng, chiến lược, nghiên cứu thị trường, marketing. Đối với 1 developer, đây đều là những thứ mới mẻ và thách thức. Có những khoảng thời gian tôi đã rất áp lực, vì vừa phải phát triển sản phẩm, vừa phải làm những công việc khác vốn không phải là thế mạnh của mình.</p>\n<p>Đến nay, mọi thứ đã tốt hơn, tôi đã quen dần hơn với công việc, mặc dù tôi vẫn phải code và quản lý cùng một lúc.</p>\n<p>Nhưng mà, trên tất cả, tôi thấy những gì mà mình có được bây giờ đều là sự may mắn, và đó đều là sự yêu thương, support từ cộng đồng đã dành cho tôi. Bởi thế, cho dù mọi thứ có khó khăn, thách thức như thế nào, tôi vẫn cảm thấy rất vui với những gì mình đang có, và sẽ cố gắng để làm mọi thứ tốt hơn.</p>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-container rtsocial-container-align-right rtsocial-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal-button\"><a title=\"Tweet: Growing a WordPress business in Vietnam\" class=\"rtsocial-twitter-button\" href=\"https://twitter.com/share?text=Growing%20a%20WordPress%20business%20in%20Vietnam&via=heropress&url=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Fgrowing-a-wordpress-business-in-vietnam%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"></a></div></div><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal fb-light\"><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal-button\"><a title=\"Like: Growing a WordPress business in Vietnam\" class=\"rtsocial-fb-button rtsocial-fb-like-light\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Fgrowing-a-wordpress-business-in-vietnam%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"></a></div></div><div class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-horizontal-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-button\" href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Fgrowing-a-wordpress-business-in-vietnam%2F&title=Growing+a+WordPress+business+in+Vietnam\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share: Growing a WordPress business in Vietnam\"></a></div></div><div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-horizontal-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-button\" href=\"https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://heropress.com/essays/growing-a-wordpress-business-in-vietnam/&media=https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/040319-min-150x150.jpg&description=Growing a WordPress business in Vietnam\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pin: Growing a WordPress business in Vietnam\"></a></div></div><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"perma-link\" href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/growing-a-wordpress-business-in-vietnam/\" title=\"Growing a WordPress business in Vietnam\"></a></div><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/growing-a-wordpress-business-in-vietnam/\">Growing a WordPress business in Vietnam</a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://heropress.com\">HeroPress</a>.</p>\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:7:\"pubDate\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:31:\"Wed, 03 Apr 2019 02:00:11 +0000\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:32:\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:8:\"Anh Tran\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}}}i:13;a:6:{s:4:\"data\";s:13:\"\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";s:5:\"child\";a:2:{s:0:\"\";a:5:{s:5:\"title\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:71:\"WPTavern: Jetpack 7.1 Adds Feature Suggestions to Plugin Search Results\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"guid\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:29:\"https://wptavern.com/?p=88404\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"link\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:82:\"https://wptavern.com/jetpack-7-1-adds-feature-suggestions-to-plugin-search-results\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:11:\"description\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:10445:\"<p><a href=\"https://jetpack.com/2019/03/05/jetpack-7-1-business-blocks/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jetpack 7.1</a> was released earlier this month with new blocks for WordAds, Business Hours, Contact Info, Slideshows, and Videos. This release also quietly added suggestions to the plugin search screen, a change that has not been well-received by the developer community. If a user searches for a plugin that has a feature that is already offered by Jetpack, the plugin will insert an artificial (and dismissible) search result into the first plugin card slot, identifying the corresponding Jetpack feature. </p>\n<p><a href=\"https://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-02-at-9.30.07-AM.png?ssl=1\"><img /></a></p>\n<p>Although these suggestions in plugin search results were not presented as a headline feature in the 7.1 release post, it was clearly listed in the changelog under enhancements. More people began taking notice after WordPress developer Mehul Gohil tweeted a screenshot of it on a live site:</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nowadays, plugin search in <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/WordPress?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WordPress</a> admin suggests a product/add-on. I see the future of these suggestions to be used by plugin authors to keep their product first in certain plugin search terms for upsells like admin notices. </p>\n<p>What do you think about this? <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/DontHijackWPAdmin?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DontHijackWPAdmin</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/TERjrPgEt6\">pic.twitter.com/TERjrPgEt6</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Mehul Gohil (@mehul_gohil0810) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mehul_gohil0810/status/1110488258587308033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2019</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<p>Manipulating search results, even to insert an artificial result, using a plugin that is already installed, is a major new development among plugins hosted on WordPress.org. Automattic is setting a precedent for other plugin authors that want to recommend their own add-ons or extensions when users match certain search terms. </p>\n<p>In the feature&#8217;s initial <a href=\"https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/pull/10611\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">proof of concept</a>, Jetpack product lead Beau Lebens explained the motivation behind adding suggestions to the search screen:</p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;ve seen that people with Jetpack installed and activated often search for Jetpack features (even by name) in the Plugins > Add New screen in wp-admin. This new module attempts to spot those searches, and provide an artificial search result that calls out that what they&#8217;re looking for is in Jetpack, which they already have, and which is already active.</p></blockquote>\n<p>Eight years since its initial release, Jetpack has grown to 45 modules. Most users are not familiar with everything the plugin offers. In fact, many users may not have even installed Jetpack themselves, as it often comes pre-installed with hosting. The suggestions may prevent users from adding alternate third-party plugins, as Jetpack&#8217;s module placement in the results subtly implies that these are inferior options to its existing modules. </p>\n<p>One of the reasons the feature has many developers rattled is because the UI fails to make it clear that this is an artificial result and not something generated by the plugin directory&#8217;s algorithm. Although it is intended to function more as a notice, for the regular user, it is virtually indistinguishable from an advertisement in its current implementation. It hasn&#8217;t been live for very long, but over time it may even make it more difficult for plugin developers to offer plugins that compete with Jetpack features.</p>\n<p>The feature suggestions in plugin search results became a hot topic on <a href=\"https://poststatus.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Post Status</a>&#8216; Slack where Automattic&#8217;s Gary Pendergast dropped in to reiterate the Jetpack team&#8217;s intentions.</p>\n<p>&#8220;I’ve been talking to some folks on Jetpack about what’s going on,&#8221; Pendergast said. &#8220;I think the team’s end goal is pretty good, and it solves a real problem WordPress has. Too often, site owners install masses of plugins that they don’t need, which ultimately creates all sorts of security, performance, and stability issues. In this particular use case, if a site owner is looking for functionality that Jetpack already handles, then the owner should be aware of that.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Pendergast also said he thinks WordPress core should offer an API for any plugin to be able to do something similar.</p>\n<h3>Plugin Team Says Jetpack&#8217;s Artificial Search Results Do Not Break WordPress.org Guidelines</h3>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s easy to conjure up different ways to abuse this avenue for advertising a plugin&#8217;s existing features, WordPress.org&#8217;s plugin team is ready to deal with a potential influx of various implementations on a case-by-case basis.</p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not really advertising anything &#8211; it&#8217;s just adding search results for pieces of a plugin that you already have and might not know about, so it&#8217;s not really against any rules,&#8221; Samuel &#8220;Otto&#8221; Wood said. &#8220;If it was misleading in some manner, then that would be different.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Wood said the team discussed it but concluded that any implementation of something similar in other plugins will need to be reviewed to see if it&#8217;s doing anything misleading.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Realistically it&#8217;s always going to be a judgment call of some sort,&#8221; Wood said. &#8220;For example, if a plugin was to insert search results for other plugins, then that wouldn&#8217;t be okay, because it&#8217;s misleading. But, this isn&#8217;t that case. It&#8217;s just trying to say &#8216;hey, you have a plugin already installed which does what you&#8217;re looking for,&#8217; so it&#8217;s trying to be helpful in that respect. It may not necessarily be the best way of accomplishing that goal, admittedly. But it&#8217;s pretty valid.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Wood did not place a hard requirement on having the artificial result be dismissible but said anytime a developer inserts something into a screen where would not normally be, having dismiss functionality is good UX. He doesn&#8217;t think it&#8217;s likely that many other plugin authors will implement something similar since most are not collections of dozens of plugins and add-ons. However, this type of suggestion seems like it would also be applicable to block collection plugins that include dozens of Gutenberg blocks.</p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be really difficult for users when all the essential plugin authors implement it,&#8221; Gohil said in response to comments on the screenshot he tweeted. &#8220;They are using JS to hack into plugin search using hook &#8216;admin_enqueue_scripts&#8217; and that&#8217;s not good. I&#8217;m not in favor of it.&#8221;</p>\n<p>If more plugin authors begin adding suggestions, users could see several rows of artificial results before seeing any real ones, depending on which plugins they have installed. Plugin developers are already brainstorming ways to strip the feature suggestions out. It likely will not be long before plugins like <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/hide-jetpack-promotions/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Hide Jetpack Promotions</a> removes the artificial search results to maintain results as delivered by WordPress.org. </p>\n<p>Wood said the plugin team does not intend to write any new guidelines for plugin authors creating their own implementations of feature suggestions on the search screen.</p>\n<p>&#8220;The difference is always going to be one of intent,&#8221; Wood said. &#8220;It&#8217;s JP&#8217;s intent here to notify the user of the existence of a feature they may not know about. That&#8217;s trying to be helpful to the user, not trying to shut out competition. It doesn&#8217;t remove search results. It doesn&#8217;t reorder them or filter them. It just adds a card about the feature you&#8217;re searching for. If you don&#8217;t have JP, then it can&#8217;t do anything. 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The products have grown out of internal tools that Automattic uses with its distributed team of more than 850 employees in 68 countries. </p>\n<p>Most employee scheduling tools are designed for more traditional work environments where people report to work in person in the same timezone. <a href=\"https://happy.tools/#products\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Happy Schedule</a> allows employees to set their own flexible schedules all the way down to 15-minute increments, seamlessly managing timezones for team members in one calendar. 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I had a sister (she died last April) but she wasn’t close to us and kept mainly to herself. But Mom and I…we were two peas in a pod all the way up to the day she died. I sat with her for five days in hospice and those were some of the longest days and nights of my life.</p>\n<blockquote><p>I felt like someone dropped a weight on my chest. I couldn’t breathe. I felt faint. I felt lost.</p></blockquote>\n<p>Thank God I had Buster, my dog. If it hadn’t been for him, I don’t know what I would have done. There was a night I just couldn’t bear not having my Mom. I had a bottle of Valium and thought, “I should just get it over with, go be with my Mom.” But I looked down at Buster and thought, “No one is going to take better care of him than me. I can’t do that to him.”</p>\n<p>I struggled with depression. Slowly over time I couldn’t function to even work on projects. It finally got to a point where my gas was turned off in the winter and I didn’t have food. I was bundled up with blankets and small heaters in my house to stay warm.</p>\n<blockquote><p>Every penny I got, was basically food for Buster. One time I went 5 days without food.</p></blockquote>\n<p>My car was repossessed. It was just crazy. Then I got evicted in mid-January 2013. Yep, evicted.</p>\n<p>My sister, who I wasn’t close to, had received a lump sum of money from Social Security. She sent money to me since I had cared for our Mom all that time by myself. I rented a van, packed up what I could fit in the U-Haul on my own and ended up at an Extended Stay hotel – in the middle of a blizzard. Left all my furniture behind because I didn’t have help.</p>\n<p>I got to the hotel and sat there in the U-Haul. I looked in the mirror and said out loud, “How the fuck did you get here? You don’t even have a pot to piss in!” Buster sitting in the other seat looking at me like I was crazy. That’s when I knew I had hit rock bottom. Depression led me to the bottom.</p>\n<h3>Rising Up</h3>\n<p>But… that was a good thing! I met a lot of wonderful people online. I joined a few WordPress groups, but mainly the StudioPress forum because I had been using their free themes when they were Revolution Two. Then they developed the Genesis Framework. Their old forum was a gold mine of information and the people were awesome. I learned so much from that forum.</p>\n<p>Every day from that point on was WordPress and Genesis. Meeting more people, learning more code. I was completely off the grid in that hotel room! No one here even knew where I was that’s how far off the grid I was. But sometimes, you must do that in order to focus and get back on track.</p>\n<blockquote><p>There were a lot of bumps in that road the first year, too many to even write out in this essay, but I learned something from each bump.</p></blockquote>\n<p>My business grew from word-of-mouth, I started getting work from people who needed help who saw me on social media and through the forums. Work from people all over the world. It truly was exciting.</p>\n<p>Each day is still WordPress and websites. Learning new things every day. Sitting with Slack windows open and chatting with other WordPress people online. It’s been my entire world since 2013 and pretty much my “Saving Grace” because I feel like I know some people online better than people right here in the same city where I live at. I lived in the hotel for 2 years. Not because I had to but because I wanted to.</p>\n<h3>The Power of Communiity</h3>\n<p>The WordPress community is awesome and giving. The Genesis community is the same. It feels like family and I’ve never met anyone in person but care so much about the people! I would hope that those who know me would feel the same.</p>\n<p>A friend recently shared a quote by the author Dodinsky that started off, “A lot of walking away will do your life good.” But it was the end that really caught my attention and it said, “The more you walk away from things that poison your soul, the healthier your life will be.”</p>\n<p>And that is so true. Healthier in a sense that I walked away from all the bad, negative things and people that were in my space. I was able to grieve and heal. Sometimes bad things that happen to you are good things in disguise.</p>\n<p>What’s in my future? Well, one of my dreams is to get a Sprinter Van, have it customized for living on the road and drive cross country with Bella. Buster passed end of 2016 and Bella is my other life-saver. I’d love to drive cross country and stop and meet people I’ve met in the WordPress community. I know I can’t really make that happen, but I can dream, can’t I? LOL!</p>\n<p>I’d love to follow you on Twitter. Follow me at @thecre8tivediva and I’ll follow you back!</p>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-container rtsocial-container-align-right rtsocial-horizontal\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal-button\"><a title=\"Tweet: Sometimes bad things that happen to you are good things in disguise\" class=\"rtsocial-twitter-button\" href=\"https://twitter.com/share?text=Sometimes%20bad%20things%20that%20happen%20to%20you%20are%20good%20things%20in%20disguise&via=heropress&url=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Fsometimes-bad-things-that-happen-to-you-are-good-things-in-disguise%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"></a></div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal fb-light\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal-button\"><a title=\"Like: Sometimes bad things that happen to you are good things in disguise\" class=\"rtsocial-fb-button rtsocial-fb-like-light\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Fsometimes-bad-things-that-happen-to-you-are-good-things-in-disguise%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"></a></div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-horizontal\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-horizontal-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-button\" href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Fsometimes-bad-things-that-happen-to-you-are-good-things-in-disguise%2F&title=Sometimes+bad+things+that+happen+to+you+are+good+things+in+disguise\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share: Sometimes bad things that happen to you are good things in disguise\"></a></div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-horizontal\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-horizontal-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-button\" href=\"https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://heropress.com/essays/sometimes-bad-things-that-happen-to-you-are-good-things-in-disguise/&media=https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/032019-150x150.jpg&description=Sometimes bad things that happen to you are good things in disguise\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pin: Sometimes bad things that happen to you are good things in disguise\"></a></div>\n</div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"perma-link\" href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/sometimes-bad-things-that-happen-to-you-are-good-things-in-disguise/\" title=\"Sometimes bad things that happen to you are good things in disguise\"></a></div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/sometimes-bad-things-that-happen-to-you-are-good-things-in-disguise/\">Sometimes bad things that happen to you are good things in disguise</a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://heropress.com\">HeroPress</a>.</p>\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:7:\"pubDate\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:31:\"Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:00:51 +0000\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:32:\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:12:\"Anita Carter\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}}}i:30;a:6:{s:4:\"data\";s:13:\"\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";s:5:\"child\";a:2:{s:0:\"\";a:5:{s:5:\"title\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:122:\"WPTavern: WordCamp Miami Draws 100+ for Kid’s Camp, Plans to Host Standalone Kid’s WordPress Conference in Summer 2019\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"guid\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:29:\"https://wptavern.com/?p=88102\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"link\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:125:\"https://wptavern.com/wordcamp-miami-draws-100-for-kids-camp-plans-to-host-standalone-kids-wordpress-conference-in-summer-2019\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:11:\"description\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:4384:\"<p>The 11th edition of <a href=\"https://2019.miami.wordcamp.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">WordCamp Miami</a> was held this past weekend, a three-day event that featured multiple learning workshops and six different tracks. The speaker ratio was 50% male and 50% female, and nearly half of the speakers were new to WordCamp Miami.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another great year of amazing, diverse speakers! <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/WCMIA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WCMIA</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/WordPress?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WordPress</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/e2smmCpPAF\">pic.twitter.com/e2smmCpPAF</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; WordCamp Miami (@wordcampmiami) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/wordcampmiami/status/1107383222453833728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2019</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<p>One of the highlights of this year&#8217;s event were the WordPress stories coming out of the Kid&#8217;s Panel. WordCamp Miami has been hosting learning experiences for kids since 2014 and for the past four years has included a two-day Kid&#8217;s Camp along with a Kid&#8217;s Panel. 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The date has not yet been set but the plan is to have it scheduled for summer 2019. </p>\n<p>The event will be divided into two tracks, one for kids aged 6 to 18 and another for teachers and educators. The kid&#8217;s track will include talks on WordPress, MineCraft, STEAM/STEM activities, and ways they can improve their coding skills. Teachers and educators will have a dedicated track with talks that will help them incorporate coding, WordPress, and broader STEAM/STEM activities into their curricula.</p>\n<p>In their <a href=\"https://2019.miami.wordcamp.org/kids-at-wordcamp-miami-2019/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announcement</a>, WordCamp Miami&#8217;s organizers said they believe the next generation of WordPress users are &#8220;vital to the growth of the open web.&#8221; They are looking for sponsors to cover the costs of snacks and lunch for approximately 100 students, volunteers and speakers to give presentations on various subjects for kids and teachers, and people to spread the word to schools in the Dade/Broward area.</p>\n<p>Kids engaging with WordPress is one of the most inspiring things happening in the community right now. It&#8217;s the spark of a new generation of users who are embracing the concept of sharing their ideas on the open web. 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The <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-sniffer/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Theme Sniffer</a> plugin is a new effort from the Theme Review team that uses custom sniffs for <a href=\"https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">PHP_CodeSniffer</a> to test a theme against WordPress coding standards and check for PHP version compatibility.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/theme-sniffer.png?ssl=1\"><img /></a></p>\n<p>The plugin is useful for both theme reviewers and developers who want to get their themes approved for the WordPress.org directory. It includes several optional standards to test against beyond the ruleset for theme review requirements. 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The release post credited Simon Scannell of RIPS Technologies for discovering and reporting the vulnerability. Scannell published a <a href=\"https://blog.ripstech.com/2019/wordpress-csrf-to-rce/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post</a> summarizing how an unauthenticated attacker could take over any WordPress site that has comments enabled:</p>\n<blockquote><p>An attacker can take over any WordPress site that has comments enabled by tricking an administrator of a target blog to visit a website set up by the attacker. As soon as the victim administrator visits the malicious website, a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) exploit is run against the target WordPress blog in the background, without the victim noticing. 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I started working out of GangPlank and fell in love with the community there. This was the first time in two years to finally feel a sense of community after my divorce. I worked there consistently and an amazing woman by the name of <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/annewatson.barber.9?__tn__=C-R&eid=ARDgx1bJAP6i7lOBAplL8Wzf3ktNKZrCGQiOP563d9GQzUAhUw-BDwvKH2tmQu7ZYvZO8mllj_-GSsTw&hc_ref=ARTqRfmleXnPPIEZjIvgFRjGV_b6g1HAolr8x1djPRbY-o2CxGcichNRB19TTOGEzIU&fref=nf&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARD66y89DBaB1hqI3FpzMqP-zIFIUw-dS1ZwT3OL2qB6-YVgZqEmiGfsyIgh0KA2-AhWIm3qo81qbiXJxOpQLciMX200P0_Q5geFvyHml7MFg8jxJkz8uOalO0lVRNS7-Ll4PwdBI7bKG5AeySV57vPv9letQrbH_bQPgBl0XRt06iFz97T1QQUo8lwhIv06cSbdoAq9LyA8CxLNrYTDZmZIVD9S8vodbLHNcti65yUK76SmDaf-q6SDsR7gW9HD-MoJwe-dV5GJCr5FQ6exvu5hsy9r7Scd\"><i>Anne Watson Barber. </i></a>During our conversation, I informed her about my dilemma with my WordPress website. She automatically, without hesitation, offered to help me without any question. I was so so excited! Thrilled! You have no idea!</p>\n<p>I consistently met up with <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/annewatson.barber.9?__tn__=C-R&eid=ARDgx1bJAP6i7lOBAplL8Wzf3ktNKZrCGQiOP563d9GQzUAhUw-BDwvKH2tmQu7ZYvZO8mllj_-GSsTw&hc_ref=ARTqRfmleXnPPIEZjIvgFRjGV_b6g1HAolr8x1djPRbY-o2CxGcichNRB19TTOGEzIU&fref=nf&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARD66y89DBaB1hqI3FpzMqP-zIFIUw-dS1ZwT3OL2qB6-YVgZqEmiGfsyIgh0KA2-AhWIm3qo81qbiXJxOpQLciMX200P0_Q5geFvyHml7MFg8jxJkz8uOalO0lVRNS7-Ll4PwdBI7bKG5AeySV57vPv9letQrbH_bQPgBl0XRt06iFz97T1QQUo8lwhIv06cSbdoAq9LyA8CxLNrYTDZmZIVD9S8vodbLHNcti65yUK76SmDaf-q6SDsR7gW9HD-MoJwe-dV5GJCr5FQ6exvu5hsy9r7Scd\"><i>Anne Watson Barber</i></a> at <a href=\"https://gangplankhq.com/chandler/\"><i>GangPlank</i></a> for a while. In all honesty, without this WordPress thing, I would have never looked for a place where people work out of, which led me to meeting <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/annewatson.barber.9?__tn__=C-R&eid=ARDgx1bJAP6i7lOBAplL8Wzf3ktNKZrCGQiOP563d9GQzUAhUw-BDwvKH2tmQu7ZYvZO8mllj_-GSsTw&hc_ref=ARTqRfmleXnPPIEZjIvgFRjGV_b6g1HAolr8x1djPRbY-o2CxGcichNRB19TTOGEzIU&fref=nf&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARD66y89DBaB1hqI3FpzMqP-zIFIUw-dS1ZwT3OL2qB6-YVgZqEmiGfsyIgh0KA2-AhWIm3qo81qbiXJxOpQLciMX200P0_Q5geFvyHml7MFg8jxJkz8uOalO0lVRNS7-Ll4PwdBI7bKG5AeySV57vPv9letQrbH_bQPgBl0XRt06iFz97T1QQUo8lwhIv06cSbdoAq9LyA8CxLNrYTDZmZIVD9S8vodbLHNcti65yUK76SmDaf-q6SDsR7gW9HD-MoJwe-dV5GJCr5FQ6exvu5hsy9r7Scd\"><i>Anne Watson Barber</i></a> and many other amazing people. But that was the beginning. As not only did I get a sense of community I was missing in my life at <a href=\"https://gangplankhq.com/chandler/\"><i>GangPlank</i></a>, I was making legit friends who selflessly are willing to help out no matter what! WOW!</p>\n<p>Can we just stop for a moment and talk about it!</p>\n<p>Throughout our meetings my friend Anne informed me about <a href=\"https://www.meetup.com/Arizona-WordPress-Group/\"><i>Meetup</i></a> groups for WordPress.</p>\n<p>I started to google <a href=\"https://www.meetup.com/Arizona-WordPress-Group/\"><i>Meetup</i></a> groups around the valley for WordPress. I went to all of them! Some WordPress <a href=\"https://www.meetup.com/Arizona-WordPress-Group/\"><i>Meetup</i></a> where one hour and thirty minutes way! I loved every bit of it! Disclaimer, most of it was over my head, but I still went, made new friends, and continued building my WordPress website.</p>\n<p>How WordPress Changed My Life, well the story speaks for itself. Choosing to build my site on WordPress was the catalyst from the beginning that opened many doors I was not aware of. I continued to build my site for a few years, and then moved on to a different venture.</p>\n<blockquote><p>But, without WordPress which lead to the WordPress community, I would not have learned how to build an online presence, to fearlessly ask questions when I’m stuck, to be around people who are willing selflessly help out, even-though I needed the information repeated over and over again for me to understand it.</p></blockquote>\n<p>Without the WordPress community, I would not have learned to be ok with failure that’s free of judgment, as we are all trying to make it. Without the WordPress community, I would not have learned to be ok with the idea of shared information – because your success is my success. Without the WordPress community, I would not have learned how to be tolerant when feeling defeated and to continue with the little courage I had to figuring it out. It really did change my life.</p>\n<p><i>After venturing off with other things</i>, the universe has it’s way of reminding me of where I belong. I was informed about volunteering at <a href=\"https://2019.phoenix.wordcamp.org/\"><i>WordCamp Phoenix 2019</i></a> by a good friend, <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/justinnealey/\"><i>Justin Nealey</i></a> at <a href=\"https://www.godaddy.com/\"><i>GoDaddy</i></a>. So I used my volunteer and sick time to take off from work to be apart of the event. I was blown away! I never knew what WordPress really meant to its people. I did not understand the heart of the WordPress project, and how important it is in the way it impacts the community. When I started with WordPress, it was about building my website for my startup business. But this time, I had a glimpse of it’s magnitude in the world and I am so thrilled to be apart of it on a whole new level!</p>\n<p>During my time at <a href=\"https://2019.phoenix.wordcamp.org/\"><i>WordCamp Phoenix 2019</i></a> , I meet amazing people and had the time of my life! This event lead to the opportunity to take photos/video during Contributor Day + Organizing WordPress Panels at <a href=\"https://www.galvanize.com/campuses/phoenix\"><i>Galvanize Phoenix</i></a>. This further opened doors to meeting <a href=\"https://twitter.com/topher1kenobe?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><i>Topher DeRosia</i></a> who approached me and inspired me to write this essay for his website called <a href=\"https://heropress.com/\"><i>HeroPress</i></a>; to meeting <a href=\"https://twitter.com/wpmodder\"><i>Adam Warner</i></a> | Field Marketing Manager for <a href=\"https://www.godaddy.com/pro\"><i>GoDaddy Pro</i></a>; to the amazing conversation with <a href=\"https://twitter.com/aaroncampbell\"><i>Aaron Campbell</i></a> |WordPress Core/Ecosystem; and so many amazing humans who came into my life because of it!</p>\n<p>Currently, I work at <a href=\"https://www.godaddy.com/\"><i>GoDaddy</i></a> Hosting Support. I love my job and I’m making a comeback into my <a href=\"https://www.meetup.com/Arizona-WordPress-Group/\"><i>WordPress community</i></a> here in the valley. I am working closely with <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-clancy-a46274122/\"><i>Matthew Clancy</i></a> to record and edit the <a href=\"https://www.meetup.com/Arizona-WordPress-Group/\">Advanced <i>WordPress Developer Meetup</i> </a>and other upcoming events as well. I am so excited for the future!</p>\n<p>Oh, and in case you&#8217;re wondering about my Salah(Prayer) card idea…that’s another blog post, another joy ride boys! In the meantime, let’s be friends! Let’s connect! Twitter @AmenaMabrouk</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<h1 id=\"arabic\">كيف غير وورد بريس حياتي</h1>\n<p>أنا على وشك أن اصبح صادقة! و قوية و صريحة ! هل تعلم&#8230; انا لا اكترث نهائيا! .. أنتم على وشك الذهاب فى نزهه! فى يونيو 2014 عندما قررت أن أترك حياتي التى عشتها مع زوجي لمدة ثلاثة عشر عاما ، تركت كل شيء خلفى. مجتمعي ألذى عرفته ،أصدقائي ، طريقه معيشتى، فقد تركت كل شيء! الشيء الوحيد الذي أخذته معي كان صندوق أفكارى وأطفالي الاثنين لكى نبدأ حياتنا الجديدة في تشاندلر أريزونا. عندما انتقلت ، عشت مع أمي حتى أكتشفت الأمر. ويوم ان كنت في المدرسة لكى أحصل على درجتى العلميه فى علوم الكمبيوتر في جامعة أوستن بيي ستيت. كان لدى سنة واحدة فقط لانهى دراستى، فلماذا لا انهيها ، وأحصل على وظيفة جيدة الأجر ، وكانت أمي طيبه معنا في منزلها. كان ذلك صعبا ومن اكثر  التجارب تحدياً &#8230;فقد كانت أمي تواجه تحديهاالخاص من الناحيه الصحيه ، ولديها ابنتها المطلقة حديثا والبالغه من العمر 29 عاما مع طفلين في منزلها لم يكن ذلك سهلا بالنسبه البها. كنت محطمه بشكل كبير . فقد تحطمت روحيا وعقليًا وأثر ذلك على حالتى الصحيه بشكل عام. وكان يجب ان أكون قويه أمام أطفالي. ولم أكن أعمل. فلم أعمل ابدا ولم يسمح زوجي بذلك. ﻟذا ، والان ، انا ابلغ 29 ﻋﺎﻣﺎً ، وأم لطفلين  ومطلقه وليست لدى درجه علميه ولا خبره مهنيه  ورغما عن كل ذلك كان يتوجب على ان ابحث عن وسيله ليس فقط لاعاله نفسى و لكن لاعاله أطفالى أيضا ً. أثناء الاقامه مع والدتى ، أصبحت الحياه  متوترةً شيئا ما . فكما ذكرت ، فقد مرت أمي بالكثير ، ولديها صراعاتها ورحلتها  الخاصة ، وقد أصبحت انا جزءا من قصتها. ومع خسارتها بفقدان الرجل الذي أحبته كثيرا ، وصحتها المتدهوره، فهى أيضا لها قدراتها الخاصة على تحمل ما تتعامل معه ، وأصبح وجودى في المنزل مع اطفالى عبئا ثقيلا بالنسبه اليها. وقد حاولت أن أقوم بدوري بشراء الطعام بكميات كبيرة فقد كنا تسعة أشخاص  في منزل مكون من خمس غرف نوم. لكن أحيانا ، لا تتطابق مع وجهه نظرى عن &#8220;القيام بدوري&#8221; مع الأخرىن ، وأحيانا تحدث بعض المشكلات. ففي أحد الأيام اتصلت والدتى وطلبت منى دفع فاتوره الإنترنت . بصراحة ، قد استطيع  دفع فاتورة أقل من  100.00 دولار ، ولكن النفقه الغير عادله  لاطفالى من طليقى في ذلك الوقت ، لم تمكننى من الالتزام بدفع أي شيء. وذلك هو السبب في أنني أشتري الطعام من كوستكو بكميات كبيرة ، وهكذا. ولكن ،  كانت تلك نقطة التحول بالنسبة لأمي فقد قالت لى  ، &#8220;أنا لا أريدك في منزلى بعد الآن&#8221;. لذا فإن خطتى لإنهاء المدرسة في عام واحد اختفت ! وعدت إلى المنزل في يوم ما  لاجد أغراضي قد وضعت في سلات أمام الجراج. فغيرت اتجاه السيارة  وذهبت في البحث عن شقة أستطيع تحمل نفقتها. في ذلك الوقت ، كان زوجى السابق يودع  1000 دولار في الحساب المشترك لأطفالنا. كان علي أن أجد شقة أقل من 1000 دولار بالإضافة إلى تغطية تكلفة البنزين والطعام . ولدهشتي وجدت شقة تسمى شقق كروس ويندز مقابل 550 دولار شهريا فى أريزونا افي وبيكوس . في أغسطس 2014 ، انتقلت للعيش فى شقتى الأولى مع أطفالى. كنت في التاسعة والعشرين من عمري ، ولم يكن لدى وظيفة بعد ، وتلاشت فكرة إلانتهاء من المدرسة ، ولا بد لي من إيجاد طريقة للتغلب على ظروفى . اتنفس &#8230; فقط اتنفس &#8230; (فاحيانا لا أستطيع. أعني &#8230; أشعر وكأنني كنت أبحث عن الهواء حتى اتنفس!) وكان أطفالي فى حاله حزن شديده. وكنت مشوشه. لم يكن عندى أدنى فكرة عما يجب أن أفعله وأين أذهب فأنا أحتاج إلى وظيفة.  بعد أن وصلت إلى صديقتي ، ديدرا هيل ابود التى ساعدتني في ان اجدد السيرة  الذاتية الخاصه بى بناءا على خبراتى السابقة ، بدأت أتقدم بطلب لكل وظيفة أعثر عليها. وكملاحظة جانبية ، فإن ديدرا هيل ابود لم تساعدنى في عمل سيرتي الذاتية والتى لم أكن أعرف طريقه تنظيمها فقط ، ولكن أيضا  ساعدتني  في طريقه تفكيري ، وذكّرتني بأن أكون  شاكره حتى مع  شعوري بالهزيمه ، وقد كنت في أدنى نقطة من مراحل  حياتي. ولكن ، لم أكن محظوظه في البحث عن عمل  ، وكنت على استعدادأن أقبل بأى شىء!  ولكن في أكتوبر 2014 ، جاءت شقيقتي إيمان ، التي كانت شهرتها إيمان بى فندي ، لزيارتى. لم يكن لدي مقعد ، ولا سرير ، ولا أثاث لفتره. وتحدثنا طويلا عن الحياة ، وكل شيء بيننا. خلال المحادثة ، حدثتها عن فكرتي وشاركت معها لعبة بطاقة ابتدعتها عندما كنت أعلم الأطفال المسلمين مرة أخرى في كلاركسفيل تينيسي.  وفى 29 أغسطس  2014 تم تعيينى كمربية. وانتقلت في ذلك الشهر إلى شقة جديدة ، لم أحيا أبدا فى شقه خاصه بى من قبل ، ولم أقم بدفع أيه  فواتير (كما يفعل الاخرون ) ، وأستطعت العثور على وظيفة فى نهاية الشهر وكان راتبها  300.00 دولار في الأسبوع. وكنت سعيدة جدا بدرجه لا يمكن أن تتخيلوها. كنت سعيدة جدا. وكانت عائلتي تزورنى فى اوقات متفرقه.  أخبرتني عن &#8220;سكور&#8221; ، وهي منظمة غير ربحية تقوم بتقديم  إرشادًات مهنيه مجانيًة في جميع أنحاء الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية. قالت ، &#8220;تواصلى معهم. سيقومون بمساعدتك في فكرتك. و انا &#8220;يا اللهي!&#8221; فقد كنت متحمسة للغايه! ذهبت إلى مفهى بيكسوتو في تشاندلر  أيه زى &#8230; للولوج الى الإنترنت &#8230; فلم أكن أستطيع تحمل تكلفة الإنترنت في ذلك الوقت. وتفقدت موقع سكور على الإنترنت  وكان لديهم حدث قمت بحضوره في نوفمبر 2014. كنت متوترة وخائفه جدًا.  لاننى لم أكن أعرف ماذا أفعل  بفكرتي. كل ما أعرفه هو أن لدي فكرة ، وكنت متحمسة لها ، ولدى الدافع لعمل أى شيء لتلك الفكره! طلب مضيف الحدث من جميع الحضور الوقوف وتقديم أنفسهم. الجميع كان لهم لقب ممتاز وتجربة رائعة جدا لتقديم أنفسهم ، وعندئذ حاولت ان اقدم شيئا عن نفسى لم اقم به من قبل. بكل ما لدى من عدم الاحساس بالامان ، وعدم الثقة بالنفس ، والتناقضات الداخلية ، وقمت بتقديم نفسى كالتالى  &#8230; &#8220;مرحبا! اسمي أمينة مبروك ولدي فكرة لعبة بطاقة تساعد الأطفال على ان يتعلموا اسم ومكان  (الصلاة).  أننى هنا لأنني لا أعرف ماأفعله بفكرتي &#8220;. بعد الجلسة ، كان هناك رجل يتجه نحوي يسمى&#8221; دوج ويتني &#8220;. وهو معلمًا معتمدًا في سكور ، وهو يساعد العملاء الراغبون في البدء فى أعمالهم أو تنمية أعمالهم. اقترب مني قائلا: &#8220;مرحبا! أنا اسمي دوج ويتني. أظن أنني أستطيع أن أساعدك في فكرتك.هذا هو الكارت المهنى الخاص بى . وااو ! فقد شعرت بسعادة كبيره! وقمت بحجز موعدًا معه في ذلك اليوم ، واستمريت فى مقابلة المشرف المهنى الخاص بى اسبوعيا و لمدة عامين.  كنت أشعر بالوحدة  فى رحلتى . فقد كنت أركز على العمل ، أطفالي وفكرتي ، بدأت أفتقد كونى جزء من المجتمع. خلال السنتين اللتين كنت التقى فيهما مع المشرف المهنى  ، قال لي ويتني: &#8220;يجب عليكى ان تبدأى  في بناء موقع إلكتروني. أنصحك  بإنشاء موقع الويب الخاص بك على وورد بريس . &#8221; أنى أحب وورد بريس . حسنا! سأبدأ الليلة. و انا كمن يقول &#8220;ما هذا؟ اقوم بالضغط علي الكلمات؟&#8221; ها ها اني امزح فحسب! لقد اكتشفت انك استغرقت هذا الوقت في قراءة مدونتي,  حيث ترتبط عمليًا في هذه المرحلة &#8230; .كما يضفى قليلا من المزاح &#8230;   أكمل ارجوك  &#8230; ثم ذهبت إلى قهوة بيكسوتو ، وفتحت جهاز الكمبيوتر الخاص بي ، ثم ولجت إلى wordpress.org ، أنشأت حسابًا وبدأت إنشىء موقع الويب الخاص بي. كانت هذه المرة الأولى التي أنشئ فيها موقعًا على الويب. وبحثت فى جوجل عن كل شيء وكثيرا من  الفيديوهات على يوتيوب. اتدري, لقد تعلقت بما ابحث فيه. فقد كنت محبطة. واحسست بخيبة أمل كبيرة وخاصة عندما رأيت المواقع الجميلة هناك ، كنت متردده قليلاً فى الاستمرار.  ففي محاولة معرفة  هذا الوورد بريس  ، تعلمت أيضًا ماهى مساحات العمل المشترك التي صرت مهووسة بها! هل تعلم أنهم هنا في جميع أنحاء المدينه! يا الله ! لقد اكتشفت أن أحدا هنهم قريبا من منزلى   جانج بلانك في تشاندلر أريزونا. بدأت العمل من خلال جانج بلانك وأحببت ذلك المجتمع. كانت تلك هي المرة الأولى منذ عامين أشعر بالتواصل الاجتماعى بعد الطلاق. عملت هناك باستمرار وقابلت سيدة رائعه اسمها أن واتسون باربر ومن خلال أحاديثنا ، أخبرتها عن مشكلتى مع موقع الوورد بريس</p>\n<p>وبدون تردد و بتلقائيه عرضت على مساعدتى بدون أى سؤال. كنت متحمسة جدا! 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، وأذا ما كنت تتساءل عن فكرتى لبطاقه الصلاة &#8230; فهذه مدوّنة أخرى ، و سعادة أخرى. في نفس الوقت ، دعنا نكن أصدقاء! دعنا نتواصل! على تويتر  AmenaMabrouk</p>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-container rtsocial-container-align-right rtsocial-horizontal\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal-button\"><a title=\"Tweet: How WordPress Changed My Life\" class=\"rtsocial-twitter-button\" href=\"https://twitter.com/share?text=How%20WordPress%20Changed%20My%20Life&via=heropress&url=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Fhow-wordpress-changed-my-life%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"></a></div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal fb-light\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal-button\"><a title=\"Like: How WordPress Changed My Life\" class=\"rtsocial-fb-button rtsocial-fb-like-light\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Fhow-wordpress-changed-my-life%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"></a></div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-horizontal\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-horizontal-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-button\" href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fheropress.com%2Fessays%2Fhow-wordpress-changed-my-life%2F&title=How+WordPress+Changed+My+Life\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share: How WordPress Changed My Life\"></a></div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-horizontal\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-horizontal-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-button\" href=\"https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://heropress.com/essays/how-wordpress-changed-my-life/&media=https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/030619-min-150x150.jpg&description=How WordPress Changed My Life\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pin: How WordPress Changed My Life\"></a></div>\n</div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"perma-link\" href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/how-wordpress-changed-my-life/\" title=\"How WordPress Changed My Life\"></a></div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://heropress.com/essays/how-wordpress-changed-my-life/\">How WordPress Changed My Life</a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://heropress.com\">HeroPress</a>.</p>\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:7:\"pubDate\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:31:\"Fri, 08 Mar 2019 01:30:09 +0000\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:32:\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:13:\"Amena Mabrouk\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}}}i:49;a:6:{s:4:\"data\";s:13:\"\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";s:5:\"child\";a:2:{s:0:\"\";a:5:{s:5:\"title\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:92:\"WPTavern: WPWeekly Episode 348 – RIP Alex, Facebook Moderators, and Shorter Release Cycles\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"guid\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:59:\"https://wptavern.com/?p=87851&preview=true&preview_id=87851\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:4:\"link\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:97:\"https://wptavern.com/wpweekly-episode-348-rip-alex-facebook-moderators-and-shorter-release-cycles\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:11:\"description\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:2067:\"<p>In this episode, <a href=\"http://jjj.me\">John James Jacoby</a> and I review feedback from last week&#8217;s show, share a few more memories of Alex Mills, and discuss an article that describes what it&#8217;s like to be a content moderator for Facebook. 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