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Matt Mullenweg posted yesterday that New 5.0 Target Date is tomorrow! Here are three steps I have taken: Back up website Setup a staging site to play around with Gutenberg editor until the website is just so. Install the Classic Editor plugin and 5.0 will be indistinguishable from 4.9.8 for your posting and editing experience, […]

WordPress versions 4.9.4 and earlier are affected by three security issues. WordPress 4.9.5 is strongly recommended security and maintenance release for all versions since WordPress 3.7. Read more about this release via WordPress’ blog post on this upgrade… WordPress 4.9.5 Security and Maintenance Release

CSS is an acronym for Cascading Style Sheets. A CSS stores style information (like fonts, colors and layout) separate from your HTML structure and makes your pages faster and easier to update. Although you can modify a theme’s CSS directly, when the theme is updated, your modifications will be lost. As such you’re best to

This code triggers an automatic update process that downloads a ZIP file from https://simplywordpress[dot]net/captcha/captcha_pro_update.php, then extracts and installs itself over the copy of the Captcha plugin running on site. The ZIP contains a few small code changes from what is in the plugin repository, and it also contains a file called plugin-update.php, which is a

WordPress Software — free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL that is installed on a web server. WordPress Themes — a collection of files that controls the way the website displays. WordPress Plugins — pieces of software that plugin seamlessly with WordPress software that extends functionality or adds new features.

WordPress is powering 30% of the web WordPress is the most used CMS WordPress has 59.4% market share WordPress is in 62 languages so far WordPress is more visited than Twitter WordPress is being 30.3% of the top 1000 websites

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WordPress software prompts you to update your plugins but as it is triggered by the plugin programmer, it could leave people with a false sense of security.

Thanks for the heads up on this issue Wordfence. Enjoyed reading your In-Depth Analysis of a Criminal Organization Targeting WordPress Websites. Very interesting read and 91.200.12.103 is now blocked. Hard to believe it could be responsible for targetting over 22,000 websites in one week! 

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