Kevin Ohashi has published his 2021 WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks report. The annual report is broken down into six different hosting tiers, from the most economical <$25/month, to the $500+ enterprise level. This is the second year the stats include WooCommerce-specific hosts as a separate category.

After eight years of measuring peak performance and consistency for WordPress hosts, Review Signal has relaunched benchmarks on wphostingbenchmarks.com, a WordPress-powered site.

Review Signal started using sentiment analysis to capture consumer reviews of hosting…

Last week, Dumitru Brînzan announced Nutmeg Plus. It is the latest commercial theme offering through his ILOVEWP brand. Earlier today, the free version of Nutmeg landed in the WordPress theme directory. The theme is built for food and recipe bloggers and is another solid example of building on the block system.

As is typical of his style, Nutmeg rests on a foundation of clean lines and readable typography. It pulls elements from some of Brînzan’s previous work, such as the featured pages section of Photozoom and the two-column intro from Endurance. Reusing code is one of the…

LANSING, Mich., June 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — StellarWP, Liquid Web’s home for the most trusted commerce and non-profit plugins on WordPress, announced this week that it has attracted IconicWP to join its software portfolio. IconicWP provides plugins that add features and functionality to WooCommerce, the ecommerce platform that powers more than one-quarter of online stores across the web.

IconicWP has an impeccable reputation for making quality ecommerce products to boost sales and conversions, and their plugins are trusted by more than 16,000 WooCommerce businesses and online shops….

WordPress is a versatile content management system with nearly 60,000 available plugins. If you are interested in selling videos, PDFs, photos, software, or other digital products, there are plenty of plugin tools to help.

Here is a list of WordPress plugins to sell digital downloads. There are tools to create simple download buttons and streamlined checkout pages. There are also advanced membership platforms to build digital-asset marketplaces, automate content distribution, and offer various payment options.

Easy Digital Downloads

Easy Digital Downloads

Easy Digital…

A Hong Kong advocacy group made up of pro-democracy activists in self-imposed exile has claimed that a US-based web-hosting company has taken down their website because of a Hong Kong police request under the national security law.

The website of the US-based Hong Kong Liberation Coalition, co-founded by former lawmaker Baggio Leung, was taken down on Thursday, the group announced. Launched less than two weeks ago, the WordPress-hosted website hkliberationcoalition.com now displays a note saying it “has been…

Malicious redirect is a type of hack where website visitors are automatically redirected to some third-party website: usually it’s some malicious resource, scam site or a commercial site that buys traffic from cyber criminals (e.g. counterfeit drugs or replica merchandise).

Types of Malicious Redirects

There are two major types of malicious redirects: server-side redirects and client-side redirects.

Server-side redirects take place before a visitor even loads a page. The most common techniques used by server-side redirect hacks are “rewrite” rules in Apache .htaccess files or PHP…

It is a new day with another chase for that elusive block plugin that will bring a little joy into my life. Today’s experiment comes courtesy of the Feature Box plugin by Sumaiya Siddika. It is a simple block that allows end-users to upload an image and add some content to an offset box.

The plugin’s output is a typical pattern on the web. As usual, I am excited to see plugin authors experimenting with bringing these features to WordPress users. I want to see more of it, especially from first-time plugin contributors.

I was able to quickly get the block up and running, adding…

Automattic, the company behind the WordPress content management system, force deploys a security update on over five million websites running the Jetpack WordPress plug-in.

Jetpack is a remarkably popular WordPress plug-in that provides free security, performance, and website management features, including brute-force attack protection, site backups, secure logins, and malware scanning.

The plugin has more than 5 million active installations, and it is developed and maintained by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.

No in the wild exploitation

The vulnerability was found in…

Patch management is far easier said than done, and security teams may often be forced into prioritising fixes for several business-critical systems, all released at once. It’s become typical, for example, to expect dozens of patches to be released on Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, with other vendors also routinely getting in on the act.

Below, IT Pro has collated the most pressing disclosures from the last seven days, including details such as a summary of the exploit mechanism, and whether the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. This is in order to give teams a sense of which bugs…