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WordPress 4.9.3 update bug advisory

Chris O'Brien February 20, 2018 0 Comments
Ordinarily, a minor WordPress update would come and go with little attention being paid to it. These minor updates usually fix a range of small bugs in one push or patch WordPress against a newly emerging security threat. However, the update from WordPress 4.9.2 to 4.9.3 did not go as smoothly as Indeed. and was rapidly pulled from public access just hours after the worldwide release. The...
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3 reasons why your website may not be converting visitors into paying customers…

Jenny Howell February 13, 2018 0 Comments
How do you measure the success of your website? Conversion. You could have heaps of visitors heading to your site, but those visits don’t really matter if you aren’t converting them into paying customers. All other traffic is essentially wasted. Are you finding yourself with a lot of website visitor traffic, selling desirable services at competitive prices, but with very few paying...
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Malicious website password reset requests on the rise from Russia

Important: Malicious website password reset requests on the rise from Russia

Chris O'Brien February 02, 2018 0 Comments
With all the interest in Russian hackers and a certain presidential campaign you'd be forgiven for thinking that only high-profile websites and individuals are targets for hackers. Not so. Over the past week we’ve seen a 1900% (yes one thousand nine hundred) percent increase in the number of malicious login attempts to websites hosted on our servers. And we’re not alone. Across the...
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WooCommerce 3.3 now available

Chris O'Brien January 30, 2018 0 Comments
Orders screen redesign WooCommerce 3.3 features a revamp of the Orders screen. It has been redesigned to be simpler and clearer while at the same time being more useful. This has been developed with backwards compatibility in mind, so extensions that add features to the Orders screen should continue working normally. You can read more about these changes here. Greater theme support and...
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Is your website software up to date?

Jenny Howell September 08, 2017 0 Comments
Firstly, it's important to understand that the reason hackers and cyber criminals want to exploit vulnerabilities in content management systems (CMS) and websites isn't necessarily just to steal all your user account, contact form, and other data, but also to infect your website visitors and users with malware. Once the unsuspecting user is infected with malware they are quickly added to...
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Very Simple Event List: Display events on WordPress websites with ease

Chris O'Brien September 05, 2017 0 Comments
Managing events in WordPress is easy. There are many sophisticated themes and plugins that lets you manage a few or hundreds of events on your website. If you are just looking for a simple way to display a list of events on your site, you may want to give Very Simple Event List a look. The plugin lets you display upcoming or past events. Once you have installed the plugin, you can add events...
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WordPress 4.8 – An Update with You in Mind

Jenny Howell June 21, 2017 0 Comments
Though some updates seem minor, they’ve been built by hundreds of contributors with you in mind. Get ready for new features you’ll welcome like an old friend: link improvements, three new media widgets covering images, audio, and video, an updated text widget that supports visual editing, and an upgraded news section in your dashboard which brings in nearby and upcoming WordPress events....
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Time for an update – WordPress 4.7.4 released

Chris O'Brien April 20, 2017 0 Comments
This release contains 47 maintenance fixes and enhancements, chief among them a fix has been provided to address an incompatibility between the upcoming Chrome version and the visual editor, inconsistencies in media handling, and further improvements to the REST API. For a full list of changes, consult the release notes and the list of changes over on the WordPress website....
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WordPress: Display a message or other text in a page or post only to logged in users

Jenny Howell January 14, 2017 0 Comments
You can use this to post advice or reminders to logged in users when they need to perform different tasks. All you have to do is add the following anywhere in your theme you want to display the message. ​ Create a shortcode to detect logged in users To turn this into a shortcode so you can use it in your posts you can just use the below snippet add this into your functions.php page. To use...
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Upgrade today WordPress, Drupal websites

Chris O'Brien January 12, 2017 0 Comments
On the 25th of December 2016, a security researcher disclosed a critical remote code execution flaw within a popular programme used to send emails from websites and web applications. The PHPMailer library is used by more than 9 million websites worldwide and is bundled with popular content management systems such as WordPress and Drupal. At worst this is a flaw that could be used to run...
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