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Coil Web Monetization WordPress plugin provides publishers and creators with a new way to monetize their content; Integration with Uphold enables payouts in more than 50 currencies and access to new debit card feature

SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Coil, the company dedicated to building a better business model for the web, today unveiled the Coil Web Monetization plugin, providing publishers and creators on WordPress with an alternative and additive way to monetize their free and premium content. Coil also introduced its newest wallet provider, Uphold, enabling payouts in…

– 30% of Elementor’s new users are new to WordPress as the company passes the 5 million website milestone

TEL AVIV, Israel, May 19, 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…

30% of Elementor’s new users are new to WordPress as the company passes the 5 million website milestone

TEL AVIV, Israel, May 19, 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…

BuddyPress has entered the world of blocks with the release of version 6.0, the latest major update that has been in development since November 2019. The release, code-named “iovine’s” for a favorite pizza restaurant in Paris, introduces blocks for Groups and Members. It also marks the completion of the BP Rest API, adding the final remaining endpoints for Blogs, Blog avatar, Friends, Group Cover Image, Member Cover Image, and User Signups.

The first set of blocks allow community site owners to insert a specific Member or Group from the editor into any WordPress post or…

You must have noticed that WordPress stores your password so that you don’t have to type it out every time you want to log in?

It makes logging into your website a fast and easy experience.

But you might be wondering if the stored password can be stolen?

Unfortunately, the answer is yes. Stored passwords can be stolen.

When hackers get their hands on your password, they will use it to break into your site and wreak havoc. They can run all sorts of malicious activities like redirecting your visitors and stealing information from your website, sending spam email, storing files and folders on…

In episode 121 for May 18th 2020: A new Thunderbolt flaw could let hackers steal your data in under five minutes, new vulnerabilities in a popular WordPress plugin, and details on why the US Senate just rejected a plan to require a warrant to obtain Americans’ web browsing history.

** Show notes and links mentioned on the show **

Thunderbolt flaw lets hackers steal your data in ‘five minutes’
https://www.wired.com/story/thunderspy-thunderbolt-evil-maid-hacking/

Thunderbolt 3 The USB-C that does it all
https://thunderbolttechnology.net/consumer/

Thunderspy tool to test if your PC is…

Image: Erik Mclean

Researchers at website security firm Sucuri have discovered a new WordPress malware used by threat actors to scan for and identify WooCommerce online shops with a lot of customers to be targeted in future Magecart attacks.

WooCommerce is an open-source WordPress plugin with over 5 million active installs and designed to make it easy to run e-commerce sites that can be used to “sell anything, anywhere.”

Attacking WooCommerce online stores is not something new as shown by previous attacks that were attempting to hack into online stores by brute-forcing admin…

Attackers can exploit a critical vulnerability in the WP Product Review Lite plugin installed on over 40,000 WordPress sites to inject malicious code and potentially take over vulnerable websites.

WP Product Review Lite helps site owners to quickly create custom review articles using pre-defined templates.

The plugin comes with support for including affiliate links, rich snippets, review widgets, as well as for buy buttons for additional monetization streams.

Persistent XSS leading to site takeover

The WP Product Review Lite bug found by the Sucuri Labs research team can be remotely…

Before Kathryn Pressner became a WordPress.com Happiness Engineer (our name for customer support specialists), she spent several years as a freelance website designer, charging clients to build sites with customized WordPress themes. 

Though she had the chops — “my job took a lot of technical skill,” she says — she realized the inherent inefficiencies in her line of work. “To build a site designed from scratch that matches the brand and has custom features, the cost can add up,” she says. “And some business owners I worked with never became comfortable with…