If your website was built using WordPress, one of the best things you can do for your small business is to learn how to install a WordPress plugin. While that may sound like hyperbole, consider this: WordPress plugins, the majority of which are free, extend and expand the functionality of your website up to and...Read More
Having an online presence as a designer is crucial. It’s how clients find out about your work, how you market yourself as a professional and the first thing an employer will see when they Google your name. There are tons of web platforms available, so which one will be the perfect fit? Here are the...Read More
CNET A lack of education is causing security and data protection issues among WordPress users, new research claims. WordPress, used to manage approximately 75 million websites worldwide, is a CMS system known for its easy install and flexible customisation with plugins and custom coding. As the content management system (CMS) is so widely used, it...Read More
Over a million WordPress websites that use a popular plug-in to optimize their search engine results are at risk of being hacked if they don’t apply a newly released patch. The WordPress SEO plug-in developed by Dutch website optimization firm Yoast contains a vulnerability that allows attackers to manipulate a site’s database and add rogue...Read More
When it comes to reducing file sizes for your images intended to go within blog posts, then the EWWW Image Optimizer plugin is one of best WordPress plugins around to optimize images for a faster page speed. In fact, we have performed a few tests with the EWWW Image Optimizer plugin and found it to...Read More
Automattic, the company behind the popular WordPress blogging platform, has faced a dramatic increase in DMCA takedown notices in recent years. Most requests are legitimate and indeed targeted at pirated content. However, there are also cases where the takedown process is clearly being abused. To curb these fraudulent notices WordPress decided to take a stand...Read More
Inman is interviewing real estate professionals in every area of the field to talk about technology use. Here’s Eli King, an online specialist at Roohan Realty. Is your phone an iPhone, Android, Windows Phone? What model? Why? Android Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (I’m not due for my upgrade until July). I got it a year and...Read More
Today, we’re proud and excited to launch the completely revamped WIRED.com. It’s been a while since our last redesign—8 years, we sheepishly admit—so this overhaul of our site is long overdue. But this gave us the time to build a smarter, more beautiful website that looks to the future as much as our reporting does....Read More
Up to a million WordPress websites could be open to full compromise through a vulnerability in the WP-Slimstat plug-in, security bod Marc-Alexandre Montpas says. The weak key flaw can expose admin credentials; bad news for the folks who’ve downloaded the plug-in 1.3 million times. A patched version of the plug-in has been released. While WordPress...Read More
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