{"id":4260,"date":"2017-10-15T14:03:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T12:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2020-02-09T10:59:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T09:59:43","slug":"wordpress-weekly-recap-account-security-improvements-in-4-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wordpress-weekly-recap-account-security-improvements-in-4-9-4260\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress weekly recap #41: account security improvements in 4.9 and more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The WordPress 4.9 release will contain a few improvements for the account security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Core<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Improvements for account security in 4.9<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>WordPress 4.9 will contain a few account security improvements, related to changing the email address of an account. From 4.9 on, changing a user\u2019s email address, the site admin address or the email address from the network admin, now require a click on a confirmation link that is sent to the new email address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides that, the old site admin email address gets an email on change, and emails that are sent to the old email address include the new address now. More on that in the post \u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2017\/10\/13\/account-security-improvements-in-wordpress-4-9\/\">Account Security Improvements in WordPress 4.9<\/a>\u00ab by John Blackbourn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Misc<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2017\/10\/08\/php-meeting-recap-october-2nd\/\">PHP Meeting Recap \u2013 October 2nd<\/a>\u00ab. The team talked about the \u00bbBefore Upgrading PHP\u00ab section, which should contain things like doing backups, running all available updates for plugins, themes, and core, et cetera.<\/li><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2017\/10\/09\/multisite-recap-for-the-week-of-october-2nd\/\">Multisite Recap for the week of October 2nd<\/a>\u00ab.<\/li><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2017\/10\/14\/multisite-recap-for-the-week-of-october-9th\/\">Multisite Recap for the week of October 9th<\/a>\u00ab.<\/li><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2017\/10\/10\/whats-new-in-gutenberg-october-10th\/\">What\u2019s new in Gutenberg? (October 10th)<\/a>\u00ab.<\/li><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2017\/10\/12\/dev-chat-summary-october-11th-4-9-week-11\/\">Dev Chat Summary: October 11th (4.9 week 11)<\/a>\u00ab.<\/li><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2017\/10\/wordpress-4-9-beta-2\/\">WordPress 4.9 Beta 2<\/a>\u00ab.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Polyglots<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Misc<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/2017\/10\/10\/start-translating-wordpress-4-9\/\">Start translating WordPress 4.9<\/a>\u00ab.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Theme review team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Misc<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/themes\/2017\/10\/12\/meeting-notes-for-2017-october-10\/\">Meeting notes for 2017 October 10<\/a>\u00ab. It is now allowed to use Pixabay images.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WP-CLI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Misc<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/cli\/2017\/10\/15\/wp-plugin-theme-checksums-project-update\/\">WP Plugin &amp; Theme Checksums Project \u2013 Update<\/a>\u00ab.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WordPress 4.9 release will contain a few improvements for the account security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpf_show_in_dewp_planet_feed":false,"flobn_post_versions":"","webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-wordpress-weekly-recap"],"wp-worthy-pixel":{"ignored":false,"public":null,"server":null,"url":null},"wp-worthy-type":"normal","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5841,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions\/5841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}