Earlier this year, a security vulnerability in WordPress and Drupal was discovered by a member of Salesforce’s security team, Nir Goldshlager. Goldshlager co-authored an article on Mashable about the vulnerability, which Mashable waited to publish until after the issue was patched in WordPress and Drupal. This is a great example of responsible disclosure of a security vulnerability in open source software. The issue itself was reported in private to those who could fix it. It was kept a secret only long enough for the affected software to be patched. Now the exploit (and how to fix it) is available for developers […]
Understanding User Roles for WordPress Beginners
Off the shelf, WordPress allows you to assign a number of different user roles to people who use your website in one capacity or another. Now for the newest of users, this may not seem like such a big deal, but after a catastrophic event — like the office manager accidentally wiping out the company website right before the president gives a big press conference and directs everyone to your site to get all the details on your new, game-changing product — maybe you’ll understand its significance. But, if that person had only a certain level of access to the website and wasn’t […]
4 Ways to Help Optimize Mobile Traffic
Mobile traffic is taking the Internet marketing world by storm. According to Mobify, in 2013 more than 1.2 billion people accessed the internet from mobile devices, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that 15+% of all traffic can be accounted for by mobiles. Clearly, it’s time to jump on the mobile optimization bandwagon (if you haven’t already). Otherwise, with an unoptimized website and marketing strategy, you could be losing up to 15% of your potential leads! To help you get started with mobile optimization, here’s a list of 4 important elements of your business that are in desperate need of […]
A Review of WordPress 4.0
On September 4, 2014, WordPress 4.0 was released to the world, named “Benny” after much-loved jazz musician Benny Goodman. Now that the dust has settled, I’ve been able to spend some time with the new WordPress 4.0 to get a feel for the new features, and I’m ready to give my verdict. For those of you expecting huge leaps forward as we jump from WordPress version 3 to version 4, you might be a little disappointed. There doesn’t seem to be any more new features than you would find in a typical WordPress update, like, for example, the jump from […]
24 Awesome IFTTT Recipes for Automating Your WordPress Tasks
Running a website can be lots of work. Although WordPress provides an excellent and easy-to-use way of doing so, there are so many steps involved with maintaining a complete online presence these days that it’s easy to feel overwhelmed at times. That’s because it is not the website alone that we have to work on. Although many of us wish we could just concentrate on the core of our business, such as producing excellent content, this is no longer enough. There are so many additional things going on in the periphery, most of them having to do with content promotion. […]

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