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Doc Pop’s News Drop: WordPress 4.7.5 security update and 4.8 news

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May 22, 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. WordPress 4.8 is set to launch on June 8th. While you are waiting, be sure to download WordPress 4.7.5 for the newest security fixes. Love WordPress news but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop! First and foremost, WordPress version 4.7.5 is out now and it’s a security release. It’s strongly recommended you upgrade immediately. This update addresses 6 known security issues, some of which allowed hackers to take control […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Big changes to the Plugin Repository

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April 3, 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. This week we talk about the new features and look of the WordPress plugin repository. Love WordPress news but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop If you’ve visited the Plugin Repository this week, you may have noticed some big changes to the site. The WordPress team has been working hard on this new version of the site and I think it looks great. If you visit WordPress.org/plugins the first […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Sucuri gets acquired by GoDaddy

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March 27, 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. Everyone is talking about GoDaddy’s newest acquisition, Sucuri Security, including us. This week we talk about that and Mike Little’s new role over at Human Made. If you haven’t seen it before, be sure to check out our brief history of GoDaddy acquisitions video. Love WordPress news, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. GoDaddy has been chomping up many WordPress companies in the last few years, but it […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Clef 2 Factor Authentication shuts down

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March 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. Clef, the popular two factor authentication plugin for WordPress, is shutting down. This week, Doc talks about why that’s a bummer and what plugins you can try instead. Love WordPress news but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. Clef Two Factor authentication was a plugin that allowed you to sign into your WordPress site by pointing your smartphone camera towards a symbol displayed on the computer screen and Clef […]

4 Considerations for Building a WordPress Enterprise Site

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March 6, 2017

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When building a website for an enterprise, you may be tempted to bypass a CMS such as WordPress and gravitate towards proprietary solutions to get the job done. However, these expensive (and often bulky!) tools are no longer necessary for building enterprise-level websites and web applications. Having matured over a decade (and now powering more than a quarter of the web), WordPress is no longer a mere blogging framework. It’s now a full-featured Content Management System (CMS) that can handle a growing infrastructure and offers the tools you need to build scalable and powerful sites for your projects. No matter the size […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: What motivates WordPress spammers?

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March 6, 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. Ever wonder what hackers hope to achieve after gaining control of a site? Wordfence just published a fantastic article about how one very prolific group of hackers were using WordPress sites to drive traffic to counterfeit NFL sportswear. We talk about that analysis and more in this week’s video. Love WordPress News, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. I finally installed Sucuri a few weeks back and immediately […]

Storing Encrypted Data In The WordPress Database

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October 31, 2016

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Today security and privacy are becoming more and more important. We’re not only hearing about password leaks but leaks of sensitive information. Servers will always get hacked, this can’t be avoided. But encrypting the data stored on those servers can drastically reduce the damage. In this article, I will discuss how to store and retrieve encrypted data in the WordPress database. Before doing so, I will discuss the difference between hashing and encryption along with a few other considerations. Hashing vs Encryption In WordPress, we use hashing a lot as part of our security. Nonces, which I covered in a recent […]

Update Your Software; It’s Easy

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May 9, 2016

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Updates certainly aren’t the most exciting part of owning a website, especially when it comes to security. Torque has written many times about the importance of updates, not only for making sure your site runs the way it should but mostly to ensure everything is as secure as possible. Checking for and downloading updates should be part of your weekly WordPress routine. Adding something new WordPress itself, a theme, or a plugin could introduce vulnerabilities. Most of the time, someone catches them before their exploited and an update is made. Not updating regularly leaves your site open to attacks, which is why people […]

Everything You Need To Know About Security For WordPress

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April 18, 2016

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Security is always on the minds of Internet users, and it should be. The idea of having your livelihood affected by someone gaining access to your site is understandably terrifying. There are ways to keep prying eyes at bay and secure your site. Of course, you should make sure you have a secure username and password, and that your site is always up to date. If you’ve done all of this and you’re still worried, there is always more you can do. This roundup will help you keep your site secure and prevent any problems from arising in the future. Whether […]

How WordPress Sites Get Hacked (And What to Do About It)

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March 30, 2016

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Having your WordPress site hacked is one of the biggest nightmares for any website owner. From one moment to the next, your site is shut down. Traffic plummets and all the energy, effort, time, and money you put into your site is on the brink of being lost entirely. Finding and fixing the problem is hard work, however, not as hard as winning back your audience’s trust or getting your site off spam blacklists. While getting hacked is never pleasant, it is much more common than you would think. The ascent of WordPress has painted a large bullseye on the […]

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