The heat is on! It’s the final round of our 2016 Plugin Madness competition and there are just a few days left to vote for your favorite WordPress plugin. Our two finalists are Advanced Custom Fields and WooCommerce. Who do you think will take the prize? Go vote right now on PluginMadness.com and share your predictions on Twitter with #pluginmadness.
The Revolution Slider Plugin has been identified as the possible cause for Panama Papers leak, one of the biggest data leaks to date, involving over 100 news publications and 2.6 terabytes of information, Wordfence reported yesterday. According to Wordfence, the Mossack Fonseca (MF) website is currently running a vulnerable version of the revslider plugin which grants a remote attacker a shell on the web server, but “have now put their site behind a firewall which would protect against this vulnerability being exploited.” All versions of the plugin from 2.1.7 to 3.0.95 are vulnerable to the attack. Wordfence theorized that MF […]
WordPress custom fields are essential for many developers. They allow you to add customized information to post and pages and build tailored solutions for content creation on different types of websites. For example, custom fields can be used to include a dedicated menu in the WordPress editor that allows users to add ratings to movie reviews. Setting an expiration date for your blog posts is another option that can be implemented with their help. However, because this feature is as complex as it is powerful, many non-developers shy away from it and improvise other solutions instead. Thankfully, the plugin Advanced […]
I think it’s important for WordPress companies to seek advice from those outside of the WordPress economy. While WordPress users have experience in the subject matter, an outsider’s perspective brings fresh insight. It’s one of the many reasons I participate in my local startup culture in Tallahassee. With the exception of hosting, it’s often challenging to explain your WordPress product business. This is in part because people might not see WordPress.org as an avenue to sales since it is not a marketplace. WordPress.org, however, is a great user-acquisition and delivery channel for freemium plugins and themes. Free plugin and add-ons or limited […]
At WooConf yesterday, CEO of WP Engine Heather Brunner drew a line in the sand stating that a successful ecommerce company will put the customer at the center of their digital strategy. She emphasized that “commerce is not just about content and conversions, it’s also about storytelling.” Brunner recommended that on the pathway to customer advocacy, you must first create an individualized, genuine relationship with your customers. To reach advocacy, customers must go through these three stages first: credibility, respect, and trust. Credibility Brunner recommends that the first step to building brand advocacy is to establish credibility with your customers. This can be achieved […]
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