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How to Add a Free SSL Certificate to Your WordPress Site

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John Hughes

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February 20, 2017

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Adding an SSL certificate to your site’s domain is one of the best ways to secure your WordPress website. Although a secure (and SSL-enabled) site is necessary for many sites, the cost and implementation concerns linked with it have stood in the way of its widespread deployment. Up until recently, getting started with a functional SSL certificate was no cakewalk. However, the new open source certificate authority, Let’s Encrypt, changed that forever in hopes of creating a more secure and privacy-respecting web. In this post, we’ll walk you through step by step instructions to install a free SSL certificate to […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Do We Need Key Signed Updates?

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Doc Pop

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News Drop

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February 20, 2017

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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. Open source security expert, Scott Arciszewski, had a lot to say about WordPress’s auto-update feature. So he wrote it up on Medium and got a response, also on Medium, from WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg. Love WordPress news, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. Last week, on Valentine’s Day, Scott Arciszewski (archie-ziskee) wrote a legthy post on Medium about a possible WordPress vulnerability that could lead to every WordPress […]

Build a Site With Me: How to Install a Plugin

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Emily Schiola

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Community

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February 17, 2017

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I’ve written about WordPress for over a year now for Torque, but I’ve never built my own site. In fact, I would consider myself a beginner when it comes to creating something using the CMS. That’s why I’ve begun building an online portfolio and taking you along with me. I’ll go over the basics of getting set up writing your first post. Last week, I wrote about how to customize a theme, now I will tackle the thing that sets WordPress apart, plugins. Plugins give you the power to customize your site in any way you want. There is a […]

How your Business can Benefit from a WordPress Website

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Joe Casabona

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February 15, 2017

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I’m going to tell you something that may be frowned upon in certain circles. I’ve recommended Squarespace. It’s true! And it might be shocking, seeing how long I’ve used and championed WordPress. But the truth of the matter is Squarespace has a market cornered. It’s a great option for the people who want to make something quickly themselves, in a controlled environment, for very little money. That is a reasonable option, but the fact of the matter is, that site won’t grow with you, scale, or look as beautiful on mobile. Every business should have an Internet presence and if […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Critical WordPress REST API update

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Doc Pop

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News Drop

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February 13, 2017

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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. Tony Perez, from Sucuri Security, joins us this week to talk about the recent set of hacks targeting the WP REST API. If you haven’t already, be sure you are running WordPress version 4.7.2 or higher to keep your site secure.

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