Automattic, the parent company of WordPress, has announced its acquisition of WooThemes, the maker of popular blog themes and an even more popular WordPress-based, e-commerce platform called WooCommerce. The WooCommerce plugin currently has more than 7.6 million downloads and more than a million active installations. In his blog post announcing the deal, Automattic co-founder Matt...Read More
If you’re looking to turn your WordPress site into an online shop, one option reigns supreme: WooCommerce. With roughly 7.5 million downloads, it’s easily the most popular e-commerce WordPress plugin — hell, it’s one of the top 10 most popular WordPress plugins overall. And now it’s officially a part of the WordPress family. Automattic, the...Read More
couch mode print story It is recommended that you include Related Posts on your blog pages as they help decrease the bounce rate of your site and are good from the SEO perspective. That’s because when you publish a new article, the old content, that was previously hiding in the archives, shows up in the...Read More
couch mode print story It is recommended that you include Related Posts on your blog pages as they help decrease the bounce rate of your site and are good from the SEO perspective. That’s because when you publish a new article, the old content, that was previously hiding in the archives, shows up in the...Read More
WordPress CMS (Content Management Solution) is the world leader when it comes to hosting content driven websites. According to a new report from CodeGuard, a website backup and monitoring service provider, 79 percent of content websites are powered by WordPress, followed by Joomla with 7.2 percent and Drupal with 5.3 percent. The report also highlights...Read More
WordPress admins hoping for some feet up time after last week’s Twenty Fifteen XSS plugin vulnerability appear to have yet another vulnerability to handle. Researchers at Zcaler have identified a bunch of compromised sites that are all leaking user credentials to the same target domain – conyouse.com hosts the command and control. The researchers haven’t...Read More
If you’ve got a WordPress site, pay attention: A recently discovered vulnerability within the blogging platform leaves your site open to attack, according to the security firm Sucuri. So far, it affects the TwentyFifteen theme (installed by default) and the JetPack plugin, which has over a million installations. At issue is the the “genericons” WordPress...Read More
WordPress vulnerability affects millions of sites (Image: Ingvar Bjork/stock image) Avid readers of ZDNet have noticed that we ran a number of articles in recent weeks and months about security issues found in the popular WordPress CMS and blogging platform. Even the FBI issued a warning about WordPress sites being vulnerable to hacking by ISIS....Read More
Millions of websites running WordPress are at risk of hijacking attacks thanks to a vulnerability that is actively being exploited in the wild and is present in the default installation of the widely used content management system, security researchers warned Wednesday. The cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability resides in genericons, a package that’s part of a...Read More
Enonic wanted to change. And change quickly. Kinda like its customers — those charged with delivering digital brand messages every day. “Our idea was to build portal technology,†said Thomas Sigdestad, co-founder and CTO for the Oslo, Norway-based provider that launched in 2000. “But around 2010 we concluded that we had to make some big...Read More
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