New research from 34SP.com has found that more than half of UK small businesses are using WordPress as a content management system (CMS) thereby “finally blowing away its image as just a blogging platformâ€, according to a deck prepared by the domain provider. The vast majority of companies who said they used the open source...Read More
Back in early 2012, when the TechCrunch developer team (Nicolas Vincent, Alex Khadiwala, Eric Mann, and John Bloch) started working on the TechCrunch redesign, one of the main goals was to improve site performance. During the development process, we implemented several tools to help achieve that goal. One of the approaches we took was to offload time-consuming...Read More
If you run a blog directly through WordPress.com, rather than a self-hosted site using the free software from WordPress.org, you’ll soon have access to an upgraded dashboard and set of editing tools. The most notable addition is a fixed toolbar for the Post Editor. Now, instead of scrolling to the top of the page to add...Read More
A critical vulnerability found recently in a popular newsletter plug-in for WordPress is actively being targeted by hackers and was used to compromise an estimated 50,000 sites so far. The security flaw is located in MailPoet Newsletters, previously known as wysija-newsletters, and was fixed in version 2.6.7 of the plug-in released on July 1. If...Read More
A glut of WordPress sites have fallen victim to both malware infections and a series of brute force attacks that have been making the rounds over the past several days, researchers claim. According to Peter Gramantik, a malware researcher at Sucuri, highly obfuscated malware payloads have been targeting sites with out of date plugins and...Read More
As many as 50,000 websites have been remotely commandeered by attackers exploiting a recently patched vulnerability in a popular plugin for the WordPress content management system, security researchers said Wednesday. Further Reading WordPress plugin with 1.7 million downloads puts sites at risk of takeover Sites running MailPoet should install update ASAP. As Ars reported in...Read More
There comes a time in every online marketer or website owner’s life when it’s time to move your website and find a new home. Whether it’s because of a poor performing web host provider or rebranding to a new domain name. Migration can be a pain and without the right tools and knowledge it’s very...Read More
Learn how to create a blog post using WordPress on our website. Welcome to ITWorld Canada’s blogging community and thanks for taking the time to learn how to post your articles using WordPress. Creating a good post with thoughtful layout, meta data, and a snappy headline is just as important to appealing to readers as...Read More
Last week, I wrote about my various WordPress sites, and how some level of inattention had resulted in one of them getting hacked. The sites have subsequently been given a lot more attention and are much more solid (amazing what a little IT time can do). In any case, after I posted that article, I...Read More
HubSpot is a terrific platform which is designed with the purpose of driving people to your website, generating leads and converting those leads into paying customers. It has been wildly successful for people such as Marcus Sheridan of the Sales Lion and my friends over at Goodbye Crutches, but it isn’t perfect (nothing is) and...Read More
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