I run my own decent sized WordPress Multisite with the Jetpack plugin enabled at the network level. This allows me to manage at a high level view all the Jetpack connected blogs from a single Jetpack connection. Not all the blogs need to be running Jetpack, however because Jetpack is enabled network wide all blogs

For many years I have had an AlexaRank widget in the sidebar of this site. When the site was still small and was not running a bunch of additional functionality the previous AlexaRank plugin worked just fine, albeit slowly. Over time this site has gotten slower and slower (primarily due to all the assets Jetpack

I fly a lot. Navigating airports has become second nature to me however we all have our moments, or in this case a whole series of moments… My coworkers are amazing. The company is distributed so we do not see each other in person often. Lastnight a few of us gathered together for merrimaking. I

While working on a plugin to monitor incoming interactions with the xmlrpc in WordPress I had the need to discover which xmlrpc method was being called. Turns out this is not a simple as it seems it should be. WordPress uses what I gather is an older external library that does not contain any hooks

This is a video from the April 2014 Seattle WordPress Developer Meetup where I spoke on Responding to Critical Vulnerabilities in WordPress Plugins. Slides are available at https://ben.lobaugh.net/uploads/critical-vulnerability-response