WordPress content management system

No matter which popular Control Management System (CMS) you are using – WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc. – anything can get hacked. If you think you have been hacked, the first thing you have to do is make sure you got hacked. Many times, WordPress users panic that their site has been hacked ...

WooCommerce, a popular eCommerce platform from WordPress, is a great fit for a wide variety of online stores. Shopify is another well-known eCommerce platform that has been popularly used, so if you want to see which would be a better platform for your online store, you might want to go through the ...

Organisations adopt WordPress because of it's low cost of ownership (free & open source), scale on the web and effects that it has on hiring and marketing technology integrations (currently 30 percent of all websites), and it's extensibility and flexibility to create rich experiences with a faster time to market.

Essentially, websites using outdated versions of the content management systems Joomla and WordPress are targeted by malicious actors who use them to place their fake update. The fake updates are for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. The affected Joomla and WordPress sites are overlayed with ...

BigCommerce, named a "Best Place to Work" in Austin in 2017 is looking for a WordPress Developer Evangelist. In this role you'll establish strong relationships with WordPress developers around the world in a scalable way, by representing their needs, interests and feedback to the BigCommerce product and engineering ...

Well, anyone who has made updates knows, there are times an updated plugin can totally break your website. You see, many times plugin vendors aren't ready for a new version of WordPress, so you need to be careful. Most important, know how to revert your site back to pre-updated state. Otherwise, your ...

Quick question: Do you know what IFC, The New York Post, The Walt Disney Company, and WNBA have in common? Ponder the answer for a moment, as the tie that binds the four organizations isn't obvious. Go ahead, I've got a minute. Stumped? It's the WordPress content management system (CMS) ...

Open-source CMS platform now powers 30 percent of all websites on the internet and 60 percent of all sites that use any type of CMS. One of the cornerstone of modern enterprise applications for the past decade has been the content management system (CMS) market. While there are many players in the ...

Over a year ago, Matt Mullenweg (co-founder of the WordPress project) told the community of WordPress developers to 'learn JavaScript deeply'. Since then, a new feature project was created with the aim of improving the way people create content on WordPress. For many years, TinyMCE (Tiny ...

It's hard to believe that it's been over 4 years since Sunlit debuted as an iOS photo-sharing app built on top of App.net, the social network that has since been shut down. App.net didn't make it, but Sunlit is back and has been reimagined as a photo blogging app for Micro.blog and WordPress sites.

Troy Mursch, a security researcher at bad packets said that more than 50,000 WordPress websites are infected with crypto jacking malware. He used PublicWWW to search for the websites which are running the malware. PublicWWW enables its users to perform searches the way it is not possible with other ...

The cryptocurrency mining malware epidemic is getting out of hand: nearly 50,000 sites have been surreptitiously infected with crypto-jacking scripts, according to security researcher Troy Mursch from Bad Packets Report. Relying on source-code search engine PublicWWW to scan the web for pages ...

The folks at San Francisco-based Automattic have a good reason to celebrate this Monday: its WordPress content management system (CMS) now powers 30 percent of all sites on the web. That's according to W3Techs, a service run by Austrian consulting firm Q-Success that surveys the top 10 million sites ...

If you are a digital content marketer, you should be well-versed in a wide array of WordPress plugins. What plugins exactly? All kinds: formatting, social, SEO, lead generation, form builders, and more. But, much like everything else, the market is so saturated that it can be hard to find the right ones.

Gathering reviews and testimonials from shoppers can generate leads and influence the decisions of others. For WordPress users, adding reviews to a website is as easy as adding the right plugin. Here is a list of product review plugins for WordPress. There are plugins to add customized review systems, ...

It's also worth pointing out that for the purposes of this study, “WordPress” refers to both the non-hosted open source blogging software that you download and the hosted WordPress.com platform. In terms of methodology, W3Techs scans the top 10 million websites, as determined by Alexa rankings, and ...

Security researchers are warning WordPress and Joomla admins of a sneaky new malware strain masquerading as legitimate ionCube files. The malware, dubbed ionCube Malware, is used by cybercriminals to create backdoors on vulnerable websites allowing them to steal data or plant more malware.

When Kinsey Wilson was leading digital transformation at USA Today 15 years ago, WordPress was emerging from a single bit of code that helped pretty up typography for casual writing. Since then, Wilson went on to spearhead digital change at NPR and at the New York Times, and WordPress became ...

Amazon today is launching a new Amazon Polly WordPress plugin that gives your blog a voice by creating audio versions of your posts. The resulting audio can be played from within the blog post itself, or accessed in podcast form using a feature called Amazon Pollycast, the company says. The plugin ...

Unfortunately, WordPress, in attempting to make “load-scripts.php” work on the admin login page, forgot to put authentication in place. That means that it's accessible to anyone. Here's where the exploit comes in. Because the “load-scripts.php” file is accessible to anyone an attacker can bring down an ...

For many people, mobile technology is the only way they get on the internet. Because of this your site must be easily accessible on mobile devices. Many businesses have released mobile apps so users can access their site with a single click. It is now possible to turn your WordPress site into a mobile app ...

Laura and I had started talking through our WordPress blogs a year and a half earlier, when I was 14 and she was 16. She commented on my blog post about teen authors, and I commented back on hers about mental health in the fantasy genre. At the time, we had different names. I knew her as Olivia and ...

Following WordPress' recent update to version 4.9.5, we decided to do a little bit of research to see just how quickly WordPress websites were updating—and how many were multiple updates behind. What we found was disconcerting to say the least. 49% of WordPress sites in the Quantcast Top 10,000 ...

So you want to speed up WordPress and make your site load blazingly fast. I don't blame you. It's critical that sites today load quickly as many users won't wait around for slow sites to load. This article will provide you with plugins as well as tips and advice for how to speed up WordPress. WordPress is a ...