Administrator panel compromises are one of the most common attacks that everyday WordPress website admins face. We work with thousands of clients who have encountered attacks on their websites and I’ve long ago lost count of the number of times that I’ve told clients that the point of entry was their WordPress login page. Brute force attacks and compromised administrator users are overwhelmingly the most common attack vectors for the CMS platform, which as of 2022 makes up over 40% of the entire web.

WordPress has many security plugins and extensions that can greatly improve security…

As by far the most popular content management system, WordPress powers millions of different websites. It’s open source software, which means its source code is publicly accessible and can be modified by pretty much anyone with sufficient know-how.

Though WordPress plugins and themes can be purchased, tens of thousands of them are available for free. As one might expect, this does not come without its downsides. So how vulnerable are WordPress sites? What about its themes and plugins? And how can you protect your sites?

How Vulnerable Is WordPress?

In February 2022, Jetpack…

No matter the purpose or function of your WordPress sites, user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) play direct roles in your success.

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

Without a comprehensive strategy for improving your UX and UI, you’ll lose out to competitors who have exactly that. Auditing the effectiveness of these features is necessary to gain the kind of traffic and engagement you’re looking for, so assess your sites now.

Start by putting the user first and follow this guide for auditing UX and UI on WordPress sites.

1. Put the User First

WordPress is the most popular site builder. It powers no less than 39% of websites on the internet. However, WordPress is not a beginner-friendly site builder. You may go through a steep learning curve when creating your first website using WordPress.

For that reason, someone without coding skills may opt for an alternative. If you have been thinking in that line, we offer you comprehensive reviews of the top 10 WordPress alternatives. Just read on, compare and have your pick. 

Top 10 WordPress Alternatives 2022

Over the past year, I have been on a mission. I have eagerly awaited each release of the Gutenberg plugin, followed tickets, and chimed in when I could. I have been holding out some sliver of hope for one feature in particular.

I wanted to use featured images within a Cover block. That day has finally arrived.

In particular, my mission was to create the following layout entirely from the WordPress editor—no code involved:

This was a part of a set of patterns I had designed for a faux photography portfolio in 2021. The general layout has long been possible in WordPress via…

WordPress.com officially announced its new pricing yesterday, after rolling it out on April 1. The lack of communication about the changes, and the free plan’s severely pared back storage and traffic limits, alarmed and frustrated many users who for years have considered WordPress.com their go-to platform for simple blogging.

WordPress.com has simplified its offerings from five plans to two plans: Free and Pro. The service has updated its plans from the initial rollout based on overwhelmingly negative feedback about the changes. The initial plans capped traffic at 10K visits on the…

Want to develop a professional-looking website but not sure where to start? With this WordPress training course, you will quickly gain web development expertise.

There are many reasons why you may want a website these days. You could be a small business owner who wants to better showcase their brand. You may be a creative in need of a portfolio site. Whatever your reason, you don’t have to be a professional coder to build a website thanks to services like WordPress.

However, WordPress does have a learning curve. Fortunately, learning this…

A couple of weeks ago, Rich Tabor announced a GitHub repository that listed all of his block plugins. These were already publicly available. However, some had yet to land in the WordPress plugin directory. As a fan of his simple approach to block design, I was quick to start tinkering with them.

One of those projects, Post Modified Time Block, landed on WordPress.org yesterday. Along with the yet-released Post Reading Time Block (available on GitHub), the two make a pair of post-meta extensions that should come in handy for many users.

Both blocks are meant to be used in conjunction…

WordPress.com has introduced major price changes without warning, replacing all of its paid plans with a single ‘Pro’ plan.

The Automattic-owned website builder has also reduced the storage on its free plan significantly, from 3GB to 500MB.