Setting up a WordPress website is easy to do, even if you have no experience. On the other hand, moving your site from one place to another can be a major headache, even if you do know what you’re doing. There are many reasons why you might need to migrate your WordPress website. For example, maybe you’re moving it from local development to a production server, or copying it from your server to place on a client’s server. Or, maybe you’re changing web hosts, need to create a copy for an … [Read more...] about 8 High-Quality WordPress Migration Plugins and Services
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The Top 10 Most Promising WordPress Podcasts for 2019
Being an avid WordPress user is just the beginning. After all, there is always breaking news, updates, trending designs, coding techniques, tools, and more to learn about. But in between work and play, how are you supposed to keep up without making a huge time commitment? The answer is WordPress podcasts. Introduced on iTunes in 2005, podcasts have come a long way. In fact, there are currently over 700,000 podcasts and 29 million episodes for people to listen to; and those numbers continue to … [Read more...] about The Top 10 Most Promising WordPress Podcasts for 2019
WooCommerce Checkout Manager 4.2.6 Vulnerability
The WooCommerce Checkout Manager has been reported by PluginVulnerabilities.com for being vulnerable in arbitrary file uploads. The exploit could be activated by an unauthenticated remote attacker when the plugin "Categorize Uploaded Files" option is enabled. In this case, the attacker cloud brute-force or guess an existing order id number and execute arbitrary server-side script code in the WooCommerce website with the active WooCommerce Checkout Manager plugin. Apparently, WooCommerce … [Read more...] about WooCommerce Checkout Manager 4.2.6 Vulnerability
Easy WP SMTP v.1.3.9 Hacked Fix
Easy WP SMTP 0-Day vulnerability Easy WP SMTP is a very popular WordPress plugin that routes outgoing emails from a WordPress site to an SMTP server of choice. It is a great tool for resolving issues with email delivery. We have used it on many occasions with our client sites. It has 300,000+ active installs and is regularly updated. This is why it came as a shock when it was reported that the latest version of the plugin (1.3.9) had a serious security issue that led to a lot of sites being … [Read more...] about Easy WP SMTP v.1.3.9 Hacked Fix
WordPress Infected with the Pharma Hack? How to Detect, Clean and Secure your site from it
What is the Pharma hack? Years ago, a client wanted me to remove a page from their WordPress site—a page regarding pharmacy products. I searched through the posts, pages, custom post types, and anything else I could think of, and I spent days assuring the client that no such page or post existed on their WordPress site. They were painfully insistent and said that they had found a page while checking the search results for their site on Google. I checked the results myself and, much to my … [Read more...] about WordPress Infected with the Pharma Hack? How to Detect, Clean and Secure your site from it