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A high severity security flaw found in a WordPress plugin with more than 8,000 active installs can let authenticated attackers reset and wipe vulnerable websites.

The plugin in question, known as Hashthemes Demo Importer, is designed to help admins import demos for WordPress themes with a single, without dealing with installing any dependencies.

The security bug would allow authenticated attackers to reset WordPress sites and delete almost all database content and uploaded media.

Wordfence QA engineer and threat analyst Ram Gall explained that the plugin failed to properly perform…

Fast-loading websites enhance the user experience for visitors, improve your search engine presence and increase your website traffic.

A web page contains HTML, CSS, Javascript, and images, and each of these has to be optimized in order to reduce the page load time. Images have one of the greatest effects on page size so it is important to reduce image file sizes using a WordPress image optimization plugin.

From the moment I opened my first theme shop back in 2008 to the present day as someone who merely tinkers, my plan has always been to build a single theme in the mold of CSS Zen Garden. This was a project that Dave Shea launched in the early 2000s to show how designers could manipulate a site through CSS alone. The HTML would stay the same, but the design could be anything.

I have achieved that goal multiple times with several projects. Technically, all I ever needed was architecturally sound markup in a WordPress theme and custom CSS in a child theme.

The concept was simple,…

Want to set up a WordPress website? You don’t need to hire a specialist to do so. You can save some money and handle the setup yourself. Sit tight as we show you how to build yourself a full-blown, custom WordPress website in a few easy steps.

Using this tutorial, you should be able to set up a site and launch it in one short sitting.

1. Get a Domain Name

Your domain name is your site’s identity, so it’s paramount that you choose it carefully. This step is essential if you prefer to buy a domain name before hosting…

Two weeks ago, Cate and Topher DeRosia launched the HeroPress Network, a centralized website that would host various projects for helping people with WordPress. Today, the duo announced the opening of Find It WP, a new site that is part of the collective. It will serve as a database or archive of all things WordPress.

The goal is ambitious, and it is powered by submissions from the community. The site is open to anyone who wants to share a WordPress-related resource. “Resources” in this sense is literally anything. It can be a plugin, agency, podcast, theme shop, or even…

Is WordPress your top choice for building your eCommerce website?  If so, then you will need to use plugins to make it happen.  Here is a list of some of the top eCommerce plugins for WordPress that can help your online store flourish.

Ecommerce and Storefront Plugins for WordPress

The eCommerce plugins for WordPress listed below are not in any particular order, nor are they the only options available if you want to build your own store in the WP CMS. However, the plugins listed below are considered the best for managing an online store or business if you are using WordPress versus…

One can never be too careful.

A big part of our job as developers is to make sure the sites and plugins, we are building are secure.

Businesses need faster solutions with increasingly complex functionality. While this is good progress, building complex projects also demands a proper security setup. WordPress security is one of the most important aspects of website development.

With the increasing complexity of features, many developers miss out on basic website and web application development security principles. This results in a flawed website that is open to cyber-attacks and other…

Nothing has been automatic about the success of Automattic.

Today, to those who haven’t been paying attention, the company looks a bit like an overnight success story. WordPress, the open source software behind the company, is now estimated to power roughly 42% of all websites on the internet. Automattic’s e-commerce plugin, WooCommerce, which it purchased in 2015, is believed to run more than a quarter of all online storefronts.

The company has 1,700 employees in a distributed, asynchronous, global workforce, and has raised nearly $1 billion, according to Crunchbase, most…

The tech industry has made a full 180-degree turn with regard to open source in the 16 years since Matt Mullenweg founded Automattic, a major commercial backer of open source content management system WordPress.

Microsoft, whose executives once used phrases like “un-American” and “cancer” to describe open source, is now one of the world’s largest contributors. Elastic, Confluent and GitLab have proven that startups, too, can layer commercial success on top of open source projects.

Even true believers can be shocked by the extent to which open source has succeeded. “To me,…