Image: Supplied WordPress is the most popular content management system for blogging on the web by a long margin. Unfortunately, this has made it a target for nefarious hackers looking to access private data and/or insert malware. This infographic from cmstowp breaks down everything you need to know about WordPress security — including tips to...Read More
Winning the trust of small businesses is not always easy, but one brand that seems to have succeeded is WordPress. According to the new SMB Trust Index, WordPress is the most trusted brand for small businesses, with a Net Promoter Score of 50 in Q2 2016. Languishing at the bottom of the list are Web.com...Read More
The Dutch hacking community’s Summer of Pwnage (SoP) has disclosed three vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins, including an XSS in the popular Ninja Forms. Since Ninja Forms claims more than 600,000 users, we’ll start there: the now-fixed reflected XSS bug allows attackers to inject malicious JavaScript into the victim’s application. That’s because the plugin “insufficiently performs...Read More
July 21, 2016 WordPress might be sweating this summer Three weeks into a month of targeting WordPress and its plugins, the Dutch ‘Summer of Pwnage’ hacking event has uncovered 64 vulnerabilities. Does this make WordPress the Adobe Flash of the CMS world? SCMagazine UK.com investigates… Summer of Pwnage (#sumofpwn) describes itself as being a “community...Read More
July 21, 2016 WordPress might be sweating this summer Three weeks into a month of targeting WordPress and its plugins, the Dutch ‘Summer of Pwnage’ hacking event has uncovered 64 vulnerabilities. Does this make WordPress the Adobe Flash of the CMS world? SCMagazine UK.com investigates… Summer of Pwnage (#sumofpwn) describes itself as being a “community...Read More
Pantheon, a WordPress and Drupal hosting service with a strong lineup of features for developers, today announced that it has raised a $29 million Series C round. Investors in this round include previous investors Foundry Group, OpenView Investment Partners, and Scale Venture Partners, as well as new investor Industry Ventures, which put $8.5 million into...Read More
A corporate blog is a major cornerstone of any digital marketing strategy, right alongside the rest of the website, analytics, and of course email marketing. Spinning up a blog is a crucial first step for many organizations looking to increase their profile and attract more customers with content marketing. Today there’s a flurry of blogging...Read More
Owner/Publisher, Editor-at-Large Ken Denmead Editor-in-Chief Matt Blum Managing Editor Z Senior Editor Jonathan H. Liu Associate Publishers* Magnus Dahlström, Nerdvana, David Michael, Gerry Tolbert, Andrew Smith, Ray Wehrs, Joel Becker, Scott Gaeta, Beth Kee, Joey Mills, talkie_tim, Danny Marquardt, Adam Bruski, John Bain, Bill Moore, Adam Frank, Lacey Hays, Peter Morson, James Needham, Matt Fleming,...Read More
Continuing our series on setting up two-factor authentication (2FA), today let’s check out how to get 2FA enabled on your WordPress.com account. An important thing to note: This guide is specifically for WordPress accounts used via WordPress.com – NOT for self-hosted WordPress sites. (There are 2FA plugins you can install on your self-hosted WordPress site, but you should...Read More
It’s IoT Week at SitePoint! All week we’re publishing articles focused on the intersection of the internet and the physical world, so keep checking the IoT tag for the latest updates. After e-commerce and social media, the next big thing has arrived — internet-enabled devices, otherwise known as the “Internet of Things†— and WordPress...Read More
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