WordPress parent company Automattic announced that Jetpack, used by over 5 million users, is now available as six individual plugins.

This allows users to choose which features they want without the burden of installing the entire suite of products.

Jetpack By Automattic

Automattic is the for-profit side of WordPress. Although they are for-profit the majority of its projects are available under the General Public License.

Jetpack is an all-in-one WordPress utility that works together seamlessly to bring security, backup, performance improvements and other functionalities to a WordPress…

John Leyden

01 June 2022 at 16:40 UTC

Updated: 01 June 2022 at 17:00 UTC

Technique skirts web security controls

A security researcher has discovered a neat, albeit partially developed, technique to bypass CSP (Content Security Policy) controls using WordPress.

The hack, discovered by security researcher Paulos Yibelo, relies on abusing same origin method execution.

This technique uses JSON padding to call a function. That’s the sort of thing that might allow the compromise of a WordPress account…

As many as 47,337 malicious plugins have been uncovered on 24,931 unique websites, out of which 3,685 plugins were sold on legitimate marketplaces, netting the attackers $41,500 in illegal revenues.

The findings come from a new tool called YODA that aims to detect rogue WordPress plugins and track down their origin, according to an 8-year-long study conducted by a group of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

“Attackers impersonated benign plugin authors and spread malware by distributing pirated plugins,” the researchers said in a new paper titled “Mistrust Plugins You…

NEW YORK, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Connatix, the leading video technology company for publishers and advertisers, today announced that it has been named to WordPress VIP’s prestigious Technology Partnership Program and has also launched the Connatix video player embed plugin for WordPress. By strengthening its partnership with the leading content management system (CMS), Connatix is continuing to help editorial teams boost their video strategies without ever leaving the WordPress editor.

The combination of Connatix’s VIP Technology Partner status and new video embed plugin allows…

LottieFiles, a company that hosts thousands of Lottie animations and helps designers create and test their animations, has just released an official plugin for WordPress. The company recently raised $37M in a Series B round, passed three million users on its website, and is investing in making motion design more accessible.

Lottie’s open source animation file format is used by more than 135,000 designers and developers in websites and apps for Amazon, Google, Spotify, Microsoft, TikTok, Netflix, BBC, Uber, and other high profile companies. The JSON-based format was created by the…

WordPress and crypto users are having a good week. Internet aficionados who run websites have a new toy that lets them do cool stuff with crypto donations.

DePay Donations is the first of its kind. It is an open-source plugin that allows websites to accept P2P donations in crypto. But the beauty of this is that it offers decentralized conversion of incoming cryptocurrency donations into tokens that the receiver has selected.

The Swiss Web3 payment startup DePay says the plug in is free to install. “It allows content creators and publishers to accept middleman-free and therefore…

Project management has become a rather hot topic within the realm of business. With good reason. With project management at your side, the workflow of your company can be made exponentially more efficient. Without project management? You know what happens. Chaos.

If that sounds like eventually you’d like to avoid, then a good project management tool is in your future.

If you happen to depend on WordPress and would love to add project management features to the platform, you’re in luck. You could turn a basic WordPress deployment into a…

A common way is to use a centralized crypto payment gateway. Going this way implies that one has to trust intermediaries who accept the donations on one’s behalf, which contradicts the core idea of decentralization. Additionally, the number of cryptocurrencies that can be accepted with this option is often very limited.

Another option is to provide wallet addresses in plain text on their site. Besides the aesthetics, this way requires that you have high administrative overhead with monitoring different wallets and converting tokens to hedge against volatility.

DePay Donations offers an…

There’s a new major release of WordPress available and Jack Wallen provides the scoop on what’s been added.

WordPress is the most widely-used blogging platform on the market. According to W3 Technology Surveys, WordPress is used by 64.1% of content management systems and 42.9% of all websites. That’s significant. It also means the developers of WordPress are always active and working diligently to improve the platform.

Recently, the developers released the latest major milestone in version 6.0. This release includes over 500…

Everybody loves a deal. Promotional discounts and coupons can motivate shoppers. WordPress merchants can easily add a variety of promotional plugins with little or no added cost.

Here is a list of discount and promotional plugins for WordPress. There are plugins for coupons, sales timers, sign-up codes, deal wheels, gift cards, and more. Most plugins listed are free, though many offer premium options.

To learn how to identify and prevent common types of promo fraud, check out our 20-minute streaming webinar, “Stop Promo Abuse, and Increase Revenue.”

Promo Plugins

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