Web-hosting firm GoDaddy is beefing up its services after it acquired WP Curve, a bootstrapped startup offering services and support for WordPress websites. The deal is undisclosed, but it will see NYSE-listed GoDaddy pick up WP Curve’s customer base, assets and “a few dozen†of its 39-person team, the firm told TechCrunch. WP Curve was...Read More
Automattic is seeing steady growth in the number of sites using its WordPress content management system — 27 percent of the internet uses it today — and there’s no shortage of die-hard fans and users who gather in towns and cities around the world to support one another’s efforts. The money gleaned from these conferences...Read More
WordPress.com has launched a new widget — powered by Google Translate — that lets bloggers and their visitors translate a website’s content into more than 100 languages. For bloggers wishing to use the new Google Translate widget, head to the “My Site(s)†section of your WordPress.com dashboard, and visit “Widgets†under the “Customize†menu. Visitors...Read More
Since 2013, WordPress has been updating itself, which is a good thing. Unless, that is, somebody hacks the update server. And that’s exactly where the WordPress security outfit WordFence found a vulnerability that could have led to the megahacking of 27% of the entire WWW. The remote code execution flaw, since fixed, was found in...Read More
Scott Arciszewski, Chief Development Officer at Paragon Initiative Enterprises, is warning about a series of security issues that affect the update mechanism used by the WordPress CMS. The developer has taken the extreme step of making these issues public after he was unable to convince the WordPress team to address the problems in private. Arciszewski...Read More
SCORE is offering a full-day hands-on WordPress workshop. This course is a comprehensive breakdown of WordPress and how to use it to build websites and/or blogs and publish your content on the Web. Whether this is the first time you’re using WordPress or you’re brushing up on everyone’s favorite content management system, this course has...Read More
The “XM1RPC†campaign injects malicious files into WordPress websites’ root directories. Security researchers discovered a search engine spam campaign that plays on WordPress administrators’ use of the XML-RPC infrastructure. The campaign, dubbed “XM1RPC†by Sucuri researchers, injects malicious files into WordPress websites’ root directories. The attacks use code injection to infect sites with a backdoor...Read More
As a PHP application, WordPress is often deployed using an older method: uploading files via FTP. This can be stressful and time consuming, especially when a heavy duty WordPress project has to be deployed. There are quite a few tools like: Jenkins, Beanstalk, and Deploy; which promise a pain-free WordPress deployment via an automated approach....Read More
WordPress has come a long way since its humble beginnings as a blog-specific platform. Now the open source platform hosts sites of all types (from blogs to ecommerce). Because the global default is slowly evolving to a mobile-first frame of mind, it’s become increasingly important that your site be smartphone- and tablet-friendly. How can you...Read More
Visited: 70Not rated by Catherrine GarciaNovember 08, 2016 The time your site takes to load influences how successful it will be in the future. If your website is slow, users will turn away in droves. They might even go to your competitors or click the back button before your website loads. Not only speed will...Read More
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