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.

One of the most important monitoring tools in our security platform is our Sucuri SiteCheck scanner. It’s a free tool to scan your website for known malicious content and malware injections. The usage of SiteCheck also allows us to monitor trends in the website security landscape, and one of the things that it can spot are JavaScript-based credit card skimmers, often referred to in the security community as #MageCart infections.

MageCart derives its name from the eCommerce CMS platform Magento, which we’ve written about extensively on this blog. MageCart credit card theft malware as…

Since you are here, you’re probably working on a cunning plan to win the internet with your soon-to-be-created membership site, right? Perhaps your goal is to create top-notch content you’ll share only with those who are ready to put some of their money into it? Or, you’re thinking about building an online community of like-minded individuals from across the globe and sharing ingenious ideas? Or, you intend to mix and match these two and get the best of both worlds by offering both free and paid content to different member groups?

Regardless of your motivation, there are more than…

Over the weekend, a post regarding WordPress.com’s as yet unannounced pricing changes went viral on Hacker News. In a post titled “What are you doing, WordPress.com?” one user identified as “VM” expressed concerns about the pricing, which has changed from five plans to two plans, and slashed storage on the free tier from 3GB to 500MB.

“At some point late last week, WordPress replaced all of the paid plans with a single ‘Pro’ plan and reduced the storage on the free plan 6x, from 3 GB to 500 MB,” VM wrote. “It also imposed a traffic ceiling on both plans where…

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Over the last year we’ve seen an ongoing malware infection which redirects website visitors to scam sites. So far this year our monitoring has detected over 3,000 websites infected with this injection this year and over 17,000 in total since we first detected it in March of 2021.

The reported behaviour is always the same: After a few seconds of loading, the website will redirect to a dodgy scam site.

Checking the Payload

The malware is always injected into the active theme’s footer.php file, and contains obfuscated JavaScript after a long series of empty lines, no doubt trying to…

Despite the flurry of April Fools day jokes circulating today, the WordPress product market has been heating up in the past couple weeks with new entrants that we are highlighting in a roundup. These products range from newly in beta to fully launched. Some are banking on the freemium model and others are fully commercial products.

APPExperts Mobile Application Builder Plugin Now in Beta

APPExperts is a new mobile application builder plugin that is now in beta, developed by the WPExperts team. It turns WordPress and WooCommerce websites into fully functional apps for  iOS and…

To make the most out of WordPress, you need to understand it fully. This will prevent you from encountering technical problems and help you create a better experience for your visitors.

Therefore, we list down the seven best online WordPress courses. Most of these are for beginners or intermediate-level users, but there are WordPress development courses for experienced folks as well.

If you’re looking to get started with WordPress, this course is for you. The nine-hour course will teach you about the WordPress dashboard, the setting-up process, and…

WebMan Design owner Oliver Juhas released the first version of the Abs – Additional block styles plugin on Monday. Unlike many block-related extensions, it does not offer any blocks of its own. Instead, it registers custom styles to enhance those packaged with core WordPress.

In total, the plugin adds 18 styles. Some are specific to a single block, such as Accessibility Hidden, which creates invisible Headings, making them available to screen readers. Others, such as the Drop Shadow style, are registered for multiple blocks.

On the whole, it is a well-rounded set that often leans…