The Bluehost Creators Awards are now open to a global audience, and judges from around the world will choose 20 winners who are breaking ground with creativity, innovation, and future-proof ideas

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Bluehost, a trusted web hosting provider specializing in WordPress, has opened the 2022 Bluehost Creators Awards contest. The awards seek to recognize and honor the talent and effort of creators spanning the spectrum from business owners, bloggers, self-creators and students to creative professionals such as web developers, web designers, and…

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a collection of techniques aimed at enhancing the visibility and ranking of a website within the results of organic searches.

These search engine optimization best practices can be broken down into categories: on-page, off-page, technical, mobile, content, and others. To put it another way, search engine optimization (SEO) refers to the process of enhancing a website so that it achieves a high ranking on search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, and others.

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The internet has revolutionized how people communicate and do business around the globe. Beginning in 2005, the internet became so widespread that almost all businesses began to have a presence online, most notably through a website. Although social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have become necessary additions to business marketing, websites are still the backbone of a business’s presence online. Businesses can be grouped in three main ways, brick and mortar stores, which offer customers a location to do business. Virtual, operating entirely online, or even a…

At the risk of spoiling the answer to a clue included in the image below, WordPress made an appearance in the New York Times crossword puzzle today. Likely nobody reading this post would struggle to answer the clue “popular blogging platform” with nine letters. New York-based digital consultant and media co-founder Matt DeSiena tweeted a screenshot with the caption, “You know it’s a good day when WordPress makes an appearance in the NYT Crossword.”

Despite the software powering 43% of websites, many of us working in the world of WordPress still cannot adequately explain…

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In light of a recent German court case, which fined a website owner for violating the GDPR by using Google-hosted webfonts, WordPress.org’s themes team is updating its recommendations for hosting webfonts. Most theme authors have been enqueuing Google Fonts from the Google CDN for better performance, but this method exposes visitors’ IP addresses.

“The themes team strongly encourages the theme authors to update their themes,” Themes Team representative @benachi said in a recent announcement. “We recommend updating by switching to locally hosted webfonts. Luckily Google Fonts…

A critical vulnerability in a WordPress plugin used on over one million websites has been patched, after evidence emerged that malicious hackers were actively exploited in the wild.

WordPress has pushed out a forced automatic update to the widely-used Ninja Forms plugin after security researchers.

According to an analysis by experts at WordFence, the vulnerability “could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or delete arbitrary files on sites.”

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More than one million WordPress websites were potentially impacted by a critical Ninja Forms plugin vulnerability that appears to have been exploited in the wild.

With over one million installations, the popular Ninja Forms plugin helps administrators add customizable forms to their WordPress sites.

The exploited security issue, which was identified in the Merge Tag functionality of the plugin, does not have a CVE identifier yet, but it has a CVSS score of 9.8.

“One feature of Ninja Forms is the ability to add ‘Merge Tags’ to forms that will auto-populate values from other areas of…

WordPress websites using a widely used plugin named Ninja Forms have been updated automatically to remediate a critical security vulnerability that’s suspected of having been actively exploited in the wild.

The issue, which relates to a case of code injection, is rated 9.8 out of 10 for severity and affects multiple versions starting from 3.0. It has been fixed in 3.0.34.2, 3.1.10, 3.2.28, 3.3.21.4, 3.4.34.2, 3.5.8.4, and 3.6.11.

Ninja Forms is a customizable contact form builder that has over 1 million installations.

According to Wordfence, the bug “made it possible for unauthenticated…