WordPress Releases and News WordPress 5.7 “Esperanza” was rolled out earlier this month. Named after Esperanza Spalding, a modern musical prodigy, the first WordPress release of 2021 brought great features to the users. These include brand new colours in the admin, and strategically placing the controls you use the most, closer to you, so that you have easy access to them. What is more, the editor enables you to work in places around the website that you would not be allowed in the past (unless you were a pro or a code-savvy user). WordPress dropping support for Internet Explorer 11? As the number of users … [Read more...] about March WordPress Security Updates and News- Volume 1
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February’s WordPress Security News and Updates
Starting from March we will be looking at the latest WordPress security updates and some interesting news from the WordPress Ecosystem. We will be taking a closer look at what has taken place and listing the most significant and noteworthy pieces of information. So let us begin. WordPress Releases WordPress 5.6.2 Release is out and it is a maintenance release coming with 5 bug fixes. You can read more about the release here.WordPress 5.7 Beta 3 became available for testing. WordPress News According to a survey conducted by W3Techs, WordPress holds now a fascinating 40.4% of the websites available out there while maintaining a … [Read more...] about February’s WordPress Security News and Updates
How to trace and clean the monit.php hack
UPDATED: 14th July 2020 Let's start this tutorial with a tip, if you want to know your site has been infected by the monit.php hack add your site URL before this snippet and browse it: /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=monit If you see a page opening with settings and text strings then you're most probably hacked, if not you're probably safe. In both cases I suggest to follow the cleanup guide for the ofgogoatan.com redirect hack. Monit.php flagged as malware A few days ago we have been contacted by a client who was looking to clean his site from malware. While working on his site he noticed that some random code was … [Read more...] about How to trace and clean the monit.php hack
From Yoast SEO to SEO Framework Plugin – How-to Guide
Why changing your SEO plugin from Yoast SEO to The SEO Framework? The SEO Framework plugin has started to gain popularity. This is a plugin that “delivers results” as they boldly state and they also pride themselves in being the fastest SEO plugin. According to their statement, the SEO Framework Plugin appears to be 2.3x faster than SEOPress, 5.3x faster than All in One SEO Pack, 9.6x faster than Rank Math and 30x faster than Yoast SEO. And though these numbers are admittedly impressive, users are often reluctant and hesitate to switch to a different plugin. This could be because users often believe that switching plugins mean that they … [Read more...] about From Yoast SEO to SEO Framework Plugin – How-to Guide
How to Use Mailgun for sending emails in WordPress & WooCommerce
Email delivery is not an uncommon issue for those hosting their WordPress sites on a shared hosting platform. In most cases, shared servers are limited to 500 emails per day, they often get blocked for various reasons by big mail providers such as Google or Yahoo and it can become difficult to control spam. Depending on your hosting provider, some SMTP email ports might be blocked as well. Kinsta blocks the port 25, for example. One of the best approaches to avoid these issues is to use an external email relay service. In this article, we will explore one of these services called Mailgun. One of the best features of Mailgun is that it can … [Read more...] about How to Use Mailgun for sending emails in WordPress & WooCommerce