The Internet is abuzz over last month’s major WordPress update. After massive data breaches at Ashley Madison, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, cybersecurity has become a top priority for consumers, businesses, and even federal agencies. So WordPress, a platform used by nearly a quarter of all the Internet’s websites, has...Read More
If you are an SMB owner with a small website reading this, chances are you started out with a WordPress site to make the process quick, easy and ready-to-roll. It’s not without reason that a little over 4.5% of all sites on the internet are built on WordPress. The beauty of WordPress is not in...Read More
If you have been paying attention the last few years, you’ve no doubt noticed the increased usage of “rich snippets†while browsing search results. These snippets appear for a variety of searches and use microdata to display things information such as ratings, dates and times, images, and other relevant information to help create a richer...Read More
If you’re in charge of marketing at a small or a medium sized company, you have enough on your plate to work on, and troubleshooting your website shouldn’t be one of them. That’s why you need to build your website on a platform that allows you to easily design according to your organizations brand standards,...Read More
Automattic, the Californian company behind the popular WordPress blogging system, has been given 17 days by the High Court to identify the author of an anonymous blog it hosts that attacks the management of exploration company Petroceltic International. Petroceltic and its two most senior managers, chief executive Brian O’Cathain and finance director Tom Hickey, also...Read More
WordPress has released version 4.3 of its content management system, which is now available as an update in your dashboard. Version 4.3 comes with several new options for easier customization — the most notable of which is the ability to modify navigation menus in the customizer. Using the WordPress site customizer you can create menus,...Read More
[Guest post by Samuel Dawson from Designs2HTML] With the internet becoming one of the most sought-after platforms for performing multiple purchases, it has become imperative for the e-commerce merchants to have an e-store that’s capable of wooing the customers instantly. Despite its popularity as a CMS(Content Management System), WordPress has been considered as one of the most specialized...Read More
Douglas Bonderud Freelance Writer A freelance writer for three years, Doug Bonderud is a Western Canadian with expertise in the fields of technology and innovation. In addition to working for the IBM Midsize… See All Posts Cross-site scripting (XSS) problems continue to plague Web pages hosted by large enterprises and major content management tools such...Read More
Researchers have identified a handful of vulnerabilities present in three different plugins used by the content management system WordPress. The issues, most of which are cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, could give some users administrative privileges, warns DXW Security, a British firm that found the issues and disclosed them on Monday. Two XSS vulnerabilities, one reflected and...Read More
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