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Local Brings Back Support for Apache and Site Cloning – WordPress Tavern

Flywheel’s Local development app has received several major updates during the past month. The most recent release brings back support for Apache as a web server choice (version 5.5.1), in response to user feedback. This was the most highly requested feature on the app’s community voting board. Although nginx is the leader in web server market share for the top 10k, top 100k, and top 1M sites, Apache is still used by more of the web. Lack of support for Apache was a deal breaker for many Local users who support clients on shared hosting, which often runs Apache and MySQL. It… More Info

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Ten Essential steps to ensure your WordPress Website is Safe

Do you have WordPress Website? Is your WordPress Website is Secure or not? Here we are sharing some of the points which helps to make your WordPress website safe. WordPress is the most well-liked and in-demand content management system utilized by 75 million websites. It runs on PHP and MySQL database. But when it comes to the security concern for a WordPress website , hackers target the WordPress websites as it powers 35% of all the websites. Now there will be a question raised by the website owners asking “whether my WordPress website is secure”? Essential steps to be… More Info

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WordPress parent company invests £3.7m in Matrix app

ondon-based New Vector, developers of the decentralised Matrix communication protocol, has welcomed US-based Automattic as a strategic investor. Automattic, the parent company of web publishing and ecommerce platforms WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, and enterprise WordPress VIP, is investing $4.6m (£3.7m) in New Vector, extending $8.5m raised in Q4 2019 from Notion Capital, firstminute capital and Dawn Capital. The latest round takes New Vector’s funding to a total of $18.1m. Automattic Inc. New Vector develops Riot, the Matrix-based messaging app, and Modular, the Matrix-based… More Info

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SEOHost.Net COO Reminds Users To Update WordPress To Protect Their Data

There seems to be a common perception these days that most cyberattacks are carried out by sophisticated criminal enterprises, but this is false. Most cyber-criminals are opportunists looking for the path of least resistance. ORLANDO, Fla. (PRWEB) May 22, 2020 SEOHost.net, a leading domain registration, SSL service, and SEO hosting provider, announced the importance of updating WordPress to protect… More Info

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SEOHost.Net COO Reminds Users To Update WordPress To Protect Their Data

There seems to be a common perception these days that most cyberattacks are carried out by sophisticated criminal enterprises, but this is false. Most cyber-criminals are opportunists looking for the path of least resistance. ORLANDO, Fla. (PRWEB) May 22, 2020 SEOHost.net, a leading domain registration, SSL service, and SEO hosting provider, announced the importance of updating WordPress to protect… More Info

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PHP and WordPress Version Checks Coming to Themes – WordPress Tavern

PHP and WordPress version checks are coming to the WordPress theme system — finally. The feature was pulled into core WordPress three days ago. It will prevent end-users from installing or activating a theme that is incompatible with their current version of PHP or WordPress. The change is slated to land in WordPress 5.5. This feature has long been on many theme authors’ wish lists, particularly PHP version checking. Plugins authors gained the ability to support specific PHP versions starting with WordPress 5.2. However, theme authors were left feeling like the second-class… More Info

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Do more with an Absolute Hosting Powered WordPress Hosting Packages

WordPress has evolved beyond the capabilities of a traditional blog medium and offers sophisticated features that allow you to host your own e-commerce Web site and more. You can easily launch an e-commerce Web site with Absolute Hosting by combining any of our WordPress hosting packages with a beautiful WordPress theme, WooCommerce plugin and PayFast account without any need for a Web site developer or prior experiencing of setting up an e-commerce Web site. Absolute Hosting’s WordPress hosting packages start at R18 per month and includes a free SSL certificate, free co.za… More Info

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Elementor Announces That 7% Of All WordPress Sites Are Now Built With Its Platform

Elementor Drives the Growth of WordPress as 7% of All WordPress Sites Are Now Built with the Platform Elementor, the leading WordPress website builder platform, today announced that 7% of all WordPress websites are built using Elementor. Founded in 2016, Elementor’s growth has continued to accelerate. While it took two years to reach its first million websites, this latest one million milestone took just over three months to achieve with over five million websites using its code-free, drag-n-drop platform. Major business and… More Info

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New Iceberg Plugin Brings a Distraction-Free Writing Experience to WordPress – WordPress Tavern

Ever on the hunt for a more beautiful, simplified writing experience inside WordPress, I jumped at the chance to beta test the new Iceberg plugin. Rich Tabor and Jeffrey Caradang, the same team behind CoBlocks, have created a new markdown editor built on top of Gutenberg that provides the best writing experience for WordPress since core’s retired Distraction Free Writing mode. Iceberg features a minimalist editor with four color themes, the ability to create a custom theme, and a set of typography controls. In switching to Iceberg, there is not much missing much from the… More Info

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Elementor Drives the Growth of WordPress as 7% of All WordPress Sites Are Now Built With the Platform

– 30% of Elementor’s new users are new to WordPress as the company passes the 5 million website milestone TEL AVIV, Israel, May 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Elementor, the leading WordPress website builder platform, today announced that 7% of all WordPress websites are built using Elementor. Founded in 2016, Elementor’s growth has continued to accelerate. While it took two years to reach its first million websites, this latest one million milestone took just over three months to achieve with over five million websites using its code-free, drag-n-drop platform. Major business and media sites… More Info

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