WordPress 5.8 Media Library Changes You Should Know About – WP Tavern

It is hard not to look through a list of upcoming WordPress 5.8 changes and not find at least a little something to whet your appetite. With so many enhancements headed our way, even we have not been able to keep up with them all here at WP Tavern. The next release will bring a few much-needed media-related upgrades.

Users should enjoy WebP image format support and a copy-to-clipboard button on the media upload screen. Developers have a new hook for filtering the image output format, and the platform is dropping infinite scrolling.

WordPress 5.8 is scheduled to ship on July 20,…


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An Overview of Basic WordPress Hardening

We have discussed in the past how out-of-the-box security configurations tend to not be very secure. This is usually true for all software and WordPress is no exception.

While there are a plethora of different ways that site owners can lock down their website, in this post we are going to review the most basic hardening mechanisms that WordPress website owners can employ to improve their security. We will also review the pros and cons of these different tactics.

Locking Down wp-admin

Let’s start with the basic administrator login page of WordPress:

The WordPress login page is – by…


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WooCommerce Patches Critical Vulnerability, Sending Forced Security Update from WordPress.org – WP Tavern

WooCommerce has patched an unspecified, critical vulnerability identified on July 13, 2021, by a security researcher through Automattic’s HackerOne security program. The vulnerability impacts versions 3.3 to 5.5 of the WooCommerce plugin, as well as version 2.5 to 5.5 of the WooCommerce Blocks feature plugin.

“Upon learning about the issue, our team immediately conducted a thorough investigation, audited all related codebases, and created a patch fix for every impacted version (90+ releases) which was deployed automatically to vulnerable stores,” WooCommerce Head of…


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10 Top WordPress Plugins Every Designer Should Know About


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If you have a WordPress website you already have a good idea of how much this website-building platform has to offer in terms of flexibility, customization, and overall performance.

Because WordPress is open-source it has been able to profit from an endless supply of developer-created themes and plugins. They have contributed to making WordPress the most popular website-building engine on the web. With respect to the plugins, the good news is that there are so many good ones to choose from.

The…


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InstaWP Launches New Service for Disposable WordPress Testing Sites – WP Tavern

Competition in the sandboxing products space is heating with the entrance of InstaWP, a new service for setting up disposable WordPress testing sites. Founder Vikas Singhal created the tool to provide a quick way to set up live testing sites online or to show something to a client or team.

InstaWP joins the ranks of services like TasteWP and WPSandbox but with a few unique options. At setup, users can select from WordPress versions back to 4.7 and may even choose to spin up a site using the latest beta or release candidate. Like other services, InstaWP allows you to choose your PHP…


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WordPress 5.8 Puts a Powerful Image-Editing Tool Into Users’ Hands – WP Tavern

Features such as the upcoming block-based widgets system, the template editor, theme-related blocks, and others have taken up much of the spotlight as of late. However, one of the best user-focused tools shipping with WordPress 5.8 is a duotone filter for Image and Cover blocks.

The term “duotone” in this sense means combining two colors as a filter. Then, layering it over an image or video. More specifically, one color is used for the shadows (dark elements), and the second color is used for the highlights (light colors).

When the feature first landed in Gutenberg 10.6 back…


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How to Add a Pincode Checker to Your WordPress Website

There is no denying that the eCommerce industry is flourishing. But not every seller targets a worldwide audience and some even restrict themselves to only a few states.

If you deliver products only to specific locations, and your website runs on WordPress, you can add a pincode check on the website to limit selling products to these areas.

In this article, we’ll go through the steps to set up a pincode checker on your website and restrict your sales based on a customer’s location.

What Are Pincode…


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Done With Facebook? How to Transfer Your Posts to Another Service

Over the years, you may have posted lots of updates, photos, and videos on Facebook. If you want to collect all these posts so you can easily find them or even reuse them on other sites and services, you can.

Facebook now allows you to transfer a copy of your posts to Google Docs, Blogger, and WordPress. You might use Google Docs if you just need to store the posts for safe-keeping or you want to use any of them in a document. You can turn to Blogger or WordPress if you plan to use some of the content in your posts for a blog or website.

One limitation here is that the transfer option…


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WordPress File Management Plugin Riddled with Critical Bugs – Threatpost

The bugs allow a range of attacks on websites, including deleting blog pages and remote code execution.

A critical cross-site scripting (XSS) bug impacts WordPress sites running the Frontend File Manager plugin and allows remote unauthenticated users to inject JavaScript code into vulnerable websites to create admin user accounts.

The bug is one of six critical flaws impacting the WordPress plugin Front File Manager versions 17.1 and 18.2, active on more than 2,000 websites. Each of the flaws, publicly disclosed Monday, have available…


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Best WordPress website builder of 2021

Launched back in 2003, WordPress remains one of the most popular platforms on the web, with its open-source content management system (CMS) giving users a wide choice of options when it comes to building a website. 

Its plugin architecture makes it easy to install third-party website builders designed to work within WordPress, often featuring drag-and-drop functionality that requires no HTML or coding knowledge from its users. So if you’re on the lookout for the best WordPress website builder around, read on below for a summary of five top contenders.


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