I’ve set up a lot of WordPress sites; in fact, every site I use personally is powered by the world’s most widely used blogging platform. When it comes to the security of my sites, I don’t leave anything to chance. That’s why there’s really only one plugin I consider a must-have for WordPress: Wordfence. More...Read More
CNET Wordpress is urging webmasters to update their CMS packages as quickly as possible to protect their domains from critical vulnerability exploits. On Thursday, the content management system (CMS) provider released a security advisory alongside the latest version of WordPress, 4.6.1. Now available, the update patches two serious security problems, a cross-site scripting vulnerability and...Read More
WordPress is strongly encouraging users of the content management system to update to the most recent version, 4.6.1, released on Wednesday. WordPress 4.6.1 Security and Maintenance Release https://t.co/NzOLsywTri — WordPress (@WordPress) September 7, 2016 The update addresses two separate security issues, a cross-site scripting vulnerability and a path traversal vulnerability. The XSS vulnerability, discovered by Cengiz...Read More
I traveled from VMworld to the lab last Wednesday, and during that time, something infected two websites I control. I suspect the servers were used as part of a Syn Flood attack. The servers, both using WordPress, would come up and serve their web pages, but then they would quickly run out of cache by...Read More
WordPress is used by millions of people right around the world to setup websites for a variety of applications. While it’s popular because it’s easy to get up and running and use, it still requires proper optimization in order to really improve your overall search engine rankings. This guide will give WordPress beginners a basic...Read More
The update brings the plug-in up to version 1.1.6, fixes a bug with automatically publishing scheduled posts, displays meta box even on draft post, and adds image settings The WordPress plug-in for Apple News, used by publishers to push their content to the Apple app, was updated today to version 1.1.6. The plug-in has come...Read More
Following in the footsteps of commenting systems Echo, Disqus and Intense Debate, WordPress.com has launched WordPress, Twitter and Facebook authorization and identity systems for its own commenting platform, in that order. The blog host didn’t even have the WordPress.com option before. Coming before Facebook on this is another albeit small win for Twitter, who yesterday became...Read More
Create your own social networking platform with the best forum plugins on WordPress. Making online forums needs a lot of patience and a bit more than average development skills. Forums are the best way for people to interact about different topics of interest and communicate with each other. In this excellent guide, you will learn...Read More
If you’ve ever used WordPress, you are probably familiar with its media library. It is where you upload all the images for your WordPress website or blog. Each time you upload a new image to WordPress’ media library, you are asked to fill in a few details. WordPress asks of course for the image’s title...Read More
The company whose software helps to run a massive number of mainstream media sites and personal blogs alike, Automattic (the organization behind WordPress), has announced the rollout of its .blog domain. On Tuesday, company founder Matt Mullenweg made the announcement by changing his own personal blog to point a .blog TLD (top-level domain). As for...Read More
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