Seasoned web developers know there’s more to WordPress than a blogging platform and if you’re willing to get your hands dirty, you can tweak it enough to do just about anything. Smashing Magazine’s Daniel Pataki has been around the block with this flexible collection of PHP scripts and has come away with quite the collection...Read More
A recent investigation has concluded that 73% of the 40,000 most popular websites that use WordPress software are vulnerable to attack. The research, carried out by vulnerability researchers EnableSecurity and reported by WordPress security outfit WP WhiteSecurity, was conducted between Sept 12 and Sept 15 shortly after the release of the WordPress 3.6.1 Maintenance and...Read More
[Ed. note: VentureBeat uses WordPress as its content management system.] WordPress’ parent company Automattic bought content sharing technology startup Cloudup today. The company’s technology will eventually help WordPress with a number of new features including collaborative editing. Cloudup is still in beta, which means it isn’t available to the public yet. Its technology is focused...Read More
Today’s internet has become the target of business owners searching to promote their products and services around the world. The development of appealing business websites is a cost effective strategy for online marketing and is being adopted by many business professionals today, in order to reach out to maximum audience in the world; more precisely,...Read More
Just months after Tiger Global Management paid $50 million for a secondary stake in Automattic, the maker of WordPress.com, the investment management firm has done it again. We learned yesterday that Tiger had made another $60 million investment in the company. Tiger bought the shares from Polaris Partners, who also sold $15 million in shares...Read More
Mobile Pwn2Own Offers $300k For Zero Days The latest iteration of the Pwn2Own hacking contest, which has run at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver for several years, will take place at the Japanese version of the conference in November, and the targets will be the most popular mobile platforms. Read more… Article source: http://threatpost.com/wordpress-fixes-remote-code-execution-flaw-with-3-6-1-releaseRead More
Mega-popular blogging and content management system WordPress has just put out version 3.6.1. Since it’s a maintenance release (an update from 3.6), it doesn’t have a huge raft of new features, but it does fix three security holes. One of them is a Remote Code Execution vulnerability reported by a young Belgian web application security...Read More
The WordPress integration with Google+ means publishers and commenters can use their Google online identities, share posts with Google+ manually or automatically, and in some cases expect better prominence of WordPress sites in Google search results. (Credit: WordPress) WordPress, the widely used blogging system, has built in Google+ technology that will let publishers use the...Read More
Naked Security reader Lisa Goodlin is a website designer and a WordPress user. That’s not exactly a secret. If you happen to visit one of the sites she looks after, you’ll probably see her name and a link to her own website discreetly placed at the bottom of every page, as I’ve done on this...Read More
Pressgram has launched as an iPhone app and WordPress plugin that recreate the Instagram experience while keeping photos within the WordPress community. Put simply, Pressgram is for people who love Instagram but hate Facebook. Blogging legend John Saddington brought the project to life with the help of a Kickstarter campaign earlier this year. The app...Read More
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