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
Facebook is out with a useful update to its Messenger app for iPhone and iPad today adding an action extension for sharing content from other apps on iOS 8. This adds the ability to have deep Facebook Messenger integration with other apps including Safari and Photos just like Apple’s own Messages app. Once enabled, you can...Read More
The grim truth is there is no way to completely protect yourself against hackers and security threats towards your WordPress website or blog. A determined hacker will find his or her way into your system whether you like it or not. It is up to you to make their job as difficult as possible. Unless...Read More
Some small businesses are truly global companies. So it stands to reason that visitors to those companies’ websites may want a different experience, one that’s specific to their location. A new product — a Web plugin called GeoIP for WordPress — allows site owners exactly that ability. It’s the first consumer-ready product from WP Engine, a...Read More
The WordPress platform, when it was released in 2004, was an unassuming piece of software aimed at making the lives of the blogging community a little bit easier. Back then, nobody could have imagined that the WordPress platform would turn into a behemoth powering almost a quarter of all websites in the world, turning into...Read More
WordPress has become a huge target for attackers and vulnerability researchers, and with good reason. The software runs a large fraction of the sites on the Internet and serious vulnerabilities in the platform have not been hard to come by lately. But there’s now a new bug that’s been disclosed in all versions of WordPress that...Read More
Matt Mullenweg’s WordPress content management platform is one of the most influential pieces of software on the Internet, running more than 19 percent of websites (including VentureBeat). But before Automattic, the parent company of WordPress, was on the path to being a billion-dollar company, Mullenweg was simply an eager coder with a healthy attitude for self-experimentation....Read More
WordPress is a free content management system for a blog — and an online store. The popular open-source project has an active development community and an abundance of instructional tutorials to get started. Here is a list of tutorials to learn WordPress. There are tutorials to get started quickly, comprehensive guides to master WordPress, and...Read More
WordPress sites with the plug-in Fancybox-for-WordPress should apply a critical security update released Thursday that fixes a vulnerability already exploited by attackers. Researchers from Web security firm Sucuri issued a warning about the vulnerability Wednesday after seeing attacks that injected a malicious iframe into websites. They tracked down the problem to a flaw in Fancybox-for-WordPress,...Read More
(Image: Wikimedia Commons) Must See Gallery Hands-on with the new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps for Windows 10 tablets Touch-friendly versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are now available in preview editions for use on devices running Windows 10. Here’s what you’ll find in each one. Read More Thousands of websites are at risk of...Read More
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