Fancy the need to add a survey – or a quiz, a poll, a questionnaire, anything along those lines, really – onto your website? If you’re using the popular website builder and web hosting solution that is WordPress, you can include these thanks to handy plugins, and we’ve explored five of the best to get you up and running in no time.

Crowdsignal offers a simple looking tool to…

Fancy the need to add a survey – or a quiz, a poll, a questionnaire, anything along those lines, really – onto your website? If you’re using the popular website builder and web hosting solution that is WordPress, you can include these thanks to handy plugins, and we’ve explored five of the best to get you up and running in no time.

Crowdsignal offers a simple looking tool to…

WordPress 5.6.1, which many sites auto-updated to, has introduced a bug that makes it difficult to save a post. A temporary patch has been created to address the issue but it’s not an official update to solve the problem.

Changes You Made May Not Be Saved

A bug introduced into the latest version of WordPress, version 5.6.1 causes an alert to pop up when attempting to navigate away, regardless if the post has been saved or not.

The bug was reported in a WordPress support page:

“I am getting the pop up “Leave Site? Changes you made may not be saved. All the time, if I change a page or not,…

New plugin maintains WordPress authoring experience while delivering better site performance and security

BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Gatsby, Inc., creators of the GatsbyJS open-source project, today announced general availability of the Gatsby Plugin for WordPress. The Plugin is available for download and is fully supported in Gatsby Cloud. Using Gatsby as the frontend and WordPress as the backend CMS, organizations can increase onsite conversions and purchases by securely delivering great visitor experiences. Gatsby as a frontend delivers much better performance…

BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Gatsby, Inc., creators of the GatsbyJS open-source project, today announced general availability of the Gatsby Plugin for WordPress. The Plugin is available for download and is fully supported in Gatsby Cloud. Using Gatsby as the frontend and WordPress as the backend CMS, organizations can increase onsite conversions and purchases by securely delivering great visitor experiences. Gatsby as a frontend delivers much better performance than traditional WordPress sites while retaining the familiar WordPress authoring experience for content…

You’re searching the web for information on how to choose the best WordPress web hosting service, right? You’re determined that your website host will help search engines prioritize your website above other slower, less reliable and less secure websites. But, how do you decide?

This blog post defines the four main types of WordPress web hosting – with easy to digest merits and limitations for each. It also sets out the important, optional extras offered by the higher ranking WordPress web hosting providers. After reading our analysis, you’ll be in a great position to decide on…

George Mamadashvili’s Bookmark Card block is the sort of simple plugin that is easy to overlook. It is one of those plugins that suffers from the lack of block discoverability in WordPress at the moment. Like many other one-off blocks, you don’t know you need it until you need it.

The plugin is essentially an embed block, but it is not specific to one website or service like Twitter and YouTube. Instead, it allows users to add a “card” for any URL in their content.

Mamadashvili has previously worked as a developer on several blocks for the Sorta Brilliant brand, which…

Aside from providing significant protection from a wide range of threats, the Sucuri WAF also acts as a CDN due to its caching capabilities and regional PoPs — often performing even better than dedicated CDNs based on recent tests.

CDNs can significantly help speed up your website by storing and delivering content as close to the browser as possible, using servers dedicated to that task. What’s more, properly configured caching settings are the best defense against DDoS attacks. Even the heaviest DDoS can be easily mitigated by leveraging good caching.

With zero configuration, the…

Unpatched sites could get pwned – but admins must fall for social engineering

Users of NextGEN Gallery, the image management plugin for WordPress, have been urged to update their websites after the discovery of serious cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities.

The most serious of two flaws found by security researchers – each residing in separate functions – could lead to remote code execution (RCE) and stored cross-site scripting (XSS).

As a result, attackers could take control of a website, inject it with spam links, or redirect…

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