Category: WordPress

WordPress 4.4

WordPress 4.4 has just been released. Check out the notes and video below to see what’s new. For Users -New Default Theme Twenty Sixteen –Responsive Images –Embeds improvements For Developers –Rest API –Terms now support metadata –Comment query improvements –Term, comment, and network objects  

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WordPress Runs 25% of the Web

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that WordPress is big. How big? This content management software now powers 25% of the web. According to w3techs.com, “WordPress is used by 58.7% of all the websites whose content management system we know. This is 25.0% of all websites.” For some perspective, the next highest…

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Update Your WordPress Plugins, or the Terrorists Win

This week, the FBI issued a public service announcement that ISIS/ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria/Islamic State in the Levant) sympathizers are using WordPress plugin vulnerabilities to deface websites. The defacements have affected Web site operations and the communication platforms of news organizations, commercial entities, religious institutions, federal/state/local governments, foreign governments, and a variety…

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