Have a news tip or an upcoming event you’d like to see in our weekly ‘What’s New In WordPress’ roundup? Write us at [email protected]. EWWW Image Optimizer Security Vulnerability: If you are using EWWW Image Optimizer, make sure to update to 2.8.5 immediately. Best Image Compression Plugins For WordPress: Beautiful images are a great way to get your website noticed. Use these plugins to compress your images correctly. Postmatic 2 Released: Get comment notifications and create email digests to deliver your work directly to your audience. How To Add Google Structured Data To A WordPress Theme: This is such an […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: 06/13/2016
Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. Learn more about the stories discussed in this week’s news drop: Critical Security Vulnerability in EWWW Image Optimizer Postmatic 2 Torque Top 5 Newsletter
What’s New In WordPress: 6/10/2016
Have a news tip or an upcoming event you’d like to see in our weekly ‘What’s New In WordPress’ roundup? Write us at [email protected]. WordCamp Incubator Locations Announced: Cities in Indonesia, Zimbabwe, and Colombia will be given a mentor to help find a venue, sponsors, and speakers for their first WordCamps. How To Make Sure Your Website Is Mobile Friendly: Being mobile friendly is so important. Is your site easy to use on a phone or tablet? WP Mobile Security Vulnerabilities: Sucuri discovered a security vulnerability in WP Mobile last week. A patch was created so if you haven’t, update your […]
Why It’s Time for Agencies to Fully Embrace WordPress for Client Work
Despite the high profile success of companies such as 10up, some agencies are still reluctant to fully commit to WordPress as a solution for clients. The platform’s roots as a blogging engine (and small business CMS) still leave many doubting whether it’s the right technology to build an entire project or team around. While historical doubts about WordPress in an agency environment were not without justification, the software is more than ready to rise to the challenge these days — and an increasingly impressive number of top-flight agencies have moved large parts of their development efforts over to it. In this piece, we’ll […]
Update: WP Mobile Detector Patch Now Available
*** Note: At this time the WP Mobile Detector plugin has been patched. Users should update to the most current version of the plugin as soon as possible. A vulnerability in WP Mobile Detector is being exploited in the wild and users are urged to remove the plugin as soon as possible, as there is currently no available update. “The vulnerability is very easy to exploit, all the attacker needs to do is send a request to resize.php or timthumb.php (yes, timthumb, in this case it just includes resize.php), inside the plugin directory with the backdoor URL,” Sucuri reported today. The exploit stems […]

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