June 11, 2015 Researchers with Sucuri have identified an object injection vulnerability in the WooCommerce plugin for WordPress websites. The issue – which Sucuri deemed dangerous and easy to exploit – has been addressed in WooCommerce version 2.3.11, but all lower versions that have the “PayPal Identity Token†option set are at risk of a...Read More
If you’ve got WordPress web content management skills, move to Delaware. You’ve got a great chance landing a job. Seriously, you do. WordPress managed hosting provider WP Engine discovered in a WordPress jobs report Delaware takes first place for WordPress careers per capita. Utah and Vermont came in nearly tied for second place. Utah has...Read More
Larry G. Wlosinski is a senior associate at Veris Group. WordPress is a free and open source content management system used by more than 23.3 percent of the top 10 million websites, according to Wikipedia, and it’s also the most popular blogging system in use, with more than 60 million websites. WordPress has been around...Read More
The announcement that WordPress’s parent company, Automattic, would purchase WooThemes and its widely used WooCommerce plugin could be good news for online sellers using the ecommerce platform. WooCommerce, which by some estimates powers more than 1 million ecommerce-enabled websites worldwide, is already tightly integrated with WordPress. But once it is part of Automattic proper, the...Read More
WordPress is introducing more powerful analytics with a new tool called Insights. The main new feature is the ability to tell you what times and days your website is most popular, for example 9:00AM and Tuesdays. One neat tool for independent publishers is the Posting Activity visualization, a sort of calender infographic describing the days...Read More
If you’ve ever blogged, chances are you’ve used WordPress, the free and open-source content-management system used by more than 60 million websites. The project was co-founded by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little and initially released in 2003 when Mullenweg was just 20 years old. Today, Mullenweg is founder and CEO of Automattic, a distributed company that...Read More
It seems like almost every week we see a new post by Matt Southern on a new WordPress site vulnerability or exploit. This is for good reason as WordPress accounts for over 23% of all of the websites on the internet, and that number is steadily growing. Due to how many websites use the WordPress...Read More
There are many reasons you should be using WordPress for your corporate website. This content management system, or CMS, is one that you can be happy with due to its popularity, extensibility and ease of use. Find a good website designer and hosting provider that lets you use this CMS …and you will be very...Read More
Sometimes you can smell when it’s not going to end well. It’s almost like there’s a taste in the air. It started with a routine email message in my inbox. But after reading the first few words, I knew this was going to be one of those. Here’s how it started: “We bought the seamless...Read More
Microsoft announced a new partnership today that makes it a lot easier to transfer your OneNote writings over to WordPress. The company has created a WordPress plugin that inserts a OneNote button into your editor. When clicked, you’ll be able to search for the specific onenote page you’d like to publish. As OneNote documents are...Read More
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