Wordpress

Security threats are not unique to WordPress. Every platform, whether it’s private or open source, is under attack 24/7. Fortunately, the WordPress community provides many solutions to make the job easier. The following are a few key steps…

Yoast SEO plugin founder, Joost de Valk, published a critical appraisal of the WordPress user interface (UI), saying that it makes it  “harder to use” and may be a reason that contributes to WordPress losing market share to companies like…

Yoast released version 20.0 introduces major changes to the user interface that are intended to make it easier to optimize a WordPress site. New User Interface The Yoast 20.0 user interface does away with the old method of making users…

Automattic introduced a new ad network called Blaze which places advertising on free WordPress.com websites and Tumblr. Advertising starts at $5/month. Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Akismet, Tumblr and other…

WordPress is the most flexible platform for online sales available today. The open-source nature of WordPress ensures that it is a reliable platform that is not going to disappear one day or go out of business. Continue reading to learn how…

The U.S. government National Vulnerability Database issued an advisory about a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in the popular Popup Maker plugin for WordPress. Popup Maker for WordPress A vulnerability was discovered in the “Popup…

The Popular WooCommerce Booster plugin patched a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability, affecting up to 70,000+ websites using the plugin. Booster for WooCommerce Vulnerability Booster for WooCommerce is a popular all-in-one…

A WordPress anti-spam plugin with over 60,000 installations patched a PHP Object injection vulnerability that arose from improper sanitization of inputs, subsequently allowing base64 encoded user input. Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection…

When should you use a child theme for WordPress? It is important to create a child theme if you plan to make any custom changes to the code. This way, when the theme is updated, any custom changes to the code will not be overwritten.…

WordPress published a security release to address multiple vulnerabilities discovered in versions of WordPress prior to 6.0.3. WordPress also updated all versions since WordPress 3.7. Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability The U.S.…