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. This week’s video talks about the features in the new beta of Gutenberg (Gutenberg 2.0) plus lots of discussion about WordCamp Miami 2018. Update your WordPress! Always. Love WordPress news but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop. First off, WordPress version 4.9.2 has recently been released and it’s a security update featuring a fix for an XSS vulnerability and 21 other bug fixes. Now […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: National Cyber Security Awareness Month
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. Since it’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), we figured it would be a great time to talk about 4 easy ways to keep your WordPress site secure. If you are interested in learning more about protecting your personal cybersecurity, I’d recommend https://staysafeonline.org/ncsam/. Love WordPress News but hate reading? My name is Doc and you’re watching Doc Pop’s News Drop. October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Which is mostly focused […]
Top 5 WordPress Security Breaches and How to Rectify Them
Holding more than 28 percent of the market share and powering 74.6 million websites across the globe, WordPress is indeed one of the most sought-after Open Source CMS in the world. With enhanced usability and appealing aesthetics, WordPress truly deserves to be the world’s most recognized publishing platform. But the massive usage of WordPress and open source have made it an easy target for cybercrooks, who aim to infect the websites with malware and gain control over their operations. Hacking platforms like WordPress enable these cyber-criminals to infect a considerable number of websites in a short span of time, using […]
Protecting WordPress With the Security Team
When your entire livelihood is online, security is always on your mind. Every day, a new company falls prey to a malicious attack. Sometimes it’s due to a vulnerability in a plugin, other times a weak password is the culprit. The way it happens doesn’t matter, it’s the aftermath that people remember. There’s a segment of people out there who are afraid to use WordPress because of attacks that occurred years ago. Though things move quickly, the internet rarely forgets. But are these fears justified? The answer is a resounding no. Since 2008, WordPress has made tremendous strides to ensure […]
An Introduction to Baseline Security for WordPress Theme Developers
If you publish WordPress themes, it’s important to develop them with the security of your users in mind. However, the WordPress Theme Review Team recently showed that many theme authors eschew this at an alarming frequency. We understand: getting a theme and its elements to simply work is much easier than worrying about any security aspects. Even so, themes can be a huge security risk, so this is something you must concern yourself with. In fact, there are a number of security mistakes that crop up time and time again, and the good news is that fixing them in your own code […]
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