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WordPress has suspended the Astra theme for being in violation of its affiliate link policy. The suspension will be in place for five weeks and will affect over one million users. Despite the wide-ranging impact, information on the suspension has been somewhat low-key. The suspense was announced by the TRT Messenger (Theme Review Team Bot) on the WordPress support forum. Users trying to find the theme from official WordPress repository will either find “no results” or a theme that is not the popular Astra theme as shown in the screenshot below. The official social… More Info

Popular WordPress theme Astra with over one million users has been suspended for five weeks. The punishment is in response to alleged violations of WordPress prohibitions against adding affiliate links into themes. Astra Theme Removed from WordPress Repository Following a link for the official Astra theme WordPress page shows that the theme is not available from WordPress. Following links to the official WordPress Astra theme repository shows that the theme is completely gone from WordPress. Using the search function on WordPress to find the Astra theme shows zero results. The Astra theme is… More Info

WordPress.com’s parent company Automattic today launched a team collaboration and communication product that has served as the “foundation of Automattic’s distributed work model” for over a decade. Automattic invested in telecommuting even before work from home became the new normal for a pandemic-ravaged global workforce. Since its inception in 2005, Automattic has always focused on remote working, and today the products give over 1,200 employees in 77 countries full autonomy to work from wherever they wish to. But this level of distribution requires the… More Info

Iain Poulson announced that Plugin Rank is open to the public yesterday. It is a new service that allows plugin authors to track their rankings by keyword on the official WordPress plugin directory. The service is geared toward plugin authors with freemium offerings. The tools were already in place for Poulson to build the service. He just needed to build his service on top of them. “Plugin Rank leverages the WordPress.org API to retrieve a set of plugins for a search term,” he said. “It’s the same API that WordPress uses when a user searches for a plugin inside their… More Info

WordPress.com, a division of Automattic, is launching a new product called P2. And this time, it’s all about improving internal communications for private groups. As a remote company, Automattic has been using P2 internally for years to communicate asynchronously. It’s a place to share long-form posts, a repository to keep onboarding documents and other important ever-green documents. P2 is built on top of WordPress . You can view it as a sort of WordPress for teams that is heavily customized around the concept of sharing ideas with other team members. Companies now rely on… More Info

As the world has suddenly shifted to remote work, Automattic has seen an influx of interest in its distributed work best practices, so the company has built a refined version of its team collaboration tool, which focuses on communication that is asynchronous, accessible across time zones, and allows teams to organize plans, projects, and big picture ideas, communicating across the entire company. P2 is a perfect companion to real-time tools like chat and videoconferencing. P2 can be used as internal blogs that move teams and organizations away from siloed email inboxes, and it helps… More Info

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WordFence researchers discovered a vulnerability in Elegant Themes Divi and Extra themes and the Divi Builder plugin. The vulnerability allows an attacker to completely take over a site. The Divi Builder Plugin is a standalone plugin that allows a user to use the Divi builder functionality on any third party theme. Elegant Themes Divi and Extra themes have the builder functionality built-in. The vulnerability comes from a flaw discovered in the builder functionality in all three products. What the Elegant Themes Vulnerability Is The Elegant Themes exploit takes advantage of a vulnerability in a… More Info

TL;DR: The WordPress Hero Bundle is on sale for £9.48 as of August 6, saving you 99% on list price. Knowing your way around WordPress is like having a cheat code that unlocks the hidden secrets of the internet. You can build your own professional-looking website, manage an e-commerce store, start a blog, launch a newsletter, and tackle lots more personal and entrepreneurial projects that can raise your profile and bring in real revenue. And since a quarter of the world’s websites rely on the ubiquitous publishing platform, a working knowledge of it can help you stand out in the job… More Info

A high severity bug found in Facebook’s official chat plugin for WordPress websites with over 80,000 active installations could allow attackers to intercept messages sent by visitors to the vulnerable sites’ owner. The Facebook Chat Plugin allows WordPress website owners to embed a chat pop-up to communicate with visitors in real-time through Facebook’s messaging platform for Facebook Pages. The plugin also comes with support for chat transcripts and makes it easy to set up auto-replies and FAQs outside working hours to provide visitors with helpful information while the site owner can’t… More Info