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WordPress Plugin Developers Alerted Ahead of Twitter API Changes - WP Tavern

Beginning February 9, 2023, Twitter will turn off free access to its APIs. The company announced yesterday that it will be offering “a paid basic tier” with more details coming next week. Starting February 9, we will no longer support… Continue Reading →

10 Best Point-of-Sale Tools and Plugins for Your WordPress Business - WPMU Dev

If your commerce platform is online and in-person, you need flexibility regarding payments. This article covers agile point-of-sale tools and plugins that can power your business on WordPress. We will showcase some plugins and other options that allow you to… Continue Reading →

SQLite Database Integration Now Available as a Plugin for Testing - WP Tavern

WordPress’ Performance Team is working on unbundling the Performance Lab plugin after feedback from Matt Mullenweg who requested large features become their own community plugins with the possibility of becoming canonical plugins. As part of this effort, the new SQLite… Continue Reading →

5 World-Class WordPress Comments Plugins to Help Your Site’s Engagement - WP Kube

The post 5 World-Class WordPress Comments Plugins to Help Your Site’s Engagement is written by Tom Rankin and appeared first on WPKube. If you run a site where traffic is a priority, or you value engagement and community, a commenting… Continue Reading →

Podcast E450 – Forum Plugin Review #7 – Sabai Discuss - KitchenSinkWP

This week I review another forums plugin: Sabai Discuss – Q&A forum [powerpress]

Podcast E449 – LearnDash LMS Plugin Review - KitchenSinkWP

This week I review LearnDash [powerpress]

WordPress accessibility checklist with recommended plugins  - GoDaddy Garage

WordPress is a household name in web accessibility, with statistics showing that it powers over 35% of all websites. Many reasons make WordPress a popular option, including no license fees, it can be used for simple websites, a reasonable learning… Continue Reading →

Podcast E443 – Forum Plugin Review #6 – ForumWP - KitchenSinkWP

This week I review another Forums solution: ForumWP [powerpress]

Podcast E438 – Forum Plugin Review #5 Part 2: Question Answer - KitchenSinkWP

This week I follow up with part 2 of a Q/A plugin review [powerpress]

Podcast E437 – Forum Plugin Review #5: DW Question and Answer - KitchenSinkWP

This week I continue the forums plugin research/reviews: DW Question and Answer [powerpress]

The Best Google Shopping WordPress Plugins

Google Shopping ads offer great opportunities to gain more leads and conversions for your products. And to be able to display your products on Google Shopping ads, you need to generate and upload a product feed in a specified format… Continue Reading →

20 Best WordPress Membership Plugins

Do you own a WordPress membership site or plan to start one soon? They’re a great way to monetize websites that share exclusive content, tutorials, discounts and more to members. Membership sites are everywhere and in every industry – including… Continue Reading →

Podcast E434 – Forum Plugin Review #4: Discussion Board - KitchenSinkWP

This week I review another forum plugin: Discussion Board [powerpress]

Divi Builder Review: An Impressive Drag-&-Drop Page Builder Plugin by Elegant Themes

Elegant Themes is one of the leading WordPress theme shops, and its flagship theme, Divi, has been a runaway success — thanks largely to its drag-and-drop website builder functionality. However, it’s actually possible to access the very same website builder… Continue Reading →

Podcast E427 – Forum Plugin Review #3: SimplePress - KitchenSinkWP

This week I review another forums plugin: Simple:Press [powerpress]

Podcast E420 – Forum Plugin Review #2 - KitchenSinkWP

This week I review another Forum plugin: WPForo [powerpress]

Podcast E417 – Forum Plugin: Asgaros - KitchenSinkWP

This week I talk about the forum plugin: Asgaros [powerpress]

508 – Planning out a WordPress Plugin - Your Website Engineer

Announcements Yoast Joins Newfold Digital, Team To Stay in Place Emoji Toolbar Plugin Brings an Emoji Picker Back to the WordPress Editor Automattic Releases Quadrat, a Block-Based Podcasting WordPress Theme WordCamp US Online Set for October 1, 2021, as Community… Continue Reading →

Episode 107: Two Plugin Vulnerabilities Target File Upload Capabilities - Wordfence Blog

The Wordfence Threat intelligence team finds vulnerabilities in two plugins, the User Profile Picture plugin and the WooCommerce Upload Files plugin. WordPress 5.7 is set to release on Tuesday, March 9 with numerous enhancements for the block editor, a new… Continue Reading →

Episode 90: WPBakery Plugin Vulnerability Exposes Over 4 Million Sites - Wordfence Blog

A vulnerability discovered by the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team in the WPBakery plugin exposes over 4 million sites. High severity vulnerabilities were discovered in the Post Grid and Team Showcase plugins. The online avatar service Gravatar, has been exposed to… Continue Reading →

Episode 87: Vulnerabilities Affect Discount Rules for WooCommerce Plugin, ModSecurity & Windows - Wordfence Blog

Vulnerabilities were recently patched in the Discount Rules for WooCommerce plugin installed on over 40,000 WordPress sites. Developers from OWASP Core Rule Set said ModSecurity v3 is exposed to denial of service exploits, though the maintainers of ModSecurity reject that… Continue Reading →

Episode 85: 0Day in File Manager Plugin and WordPress 5.5.1 Fixes Broken Sites - Wordfence Blog

Over 700,000 WordPress users were affected by a zero-day vulnerability in the File Manager plugin, and the WordPress 5.5.1 release fixed millions of sites affected by deprecation of jQuery Migrate. SendGrid is under siege from spammers using hacked accounts, and… Continue Reading →

Episode 80: Critical File Upload Vulnerability in wpDiscuz Plugin - Wordfence Blog

In this week’s news, our Threat Intelligence team discovered a vulnerability in the wpDiscuz plugin, affecting over 80,000 WordPress sites. A blind SQL injection attack affected analytics service Waydev, exposing OAuth tokens for GitHub repositories for software companies, leading to… Continue Reading →

495 – Your Website Engineer Plugins in 2020 - Your Website Engineer

Announcements WordPress 5.5 Release Candidate Are Plugin Authors to Blame for the Poor Admin Notices Experience? WordPress to Stick with Online-Only Meetups and WordCamps for Remainder of 2020 Is there a plugin for that? With more than 50,000 plugins in… Continue Reading →

Episode 76: Ongoing Attacks on WP Growing in Volume Plus Numerous Plugin Vulnerabilities - Wordfence Blog

On this week’s Think Like a Hacker podcast, we cover an active attack campaign targeting WordPress sites and numerous plugin vulnerabilities. This active attack campaign has been ongoing and has outpaced all other attacks on WordPress vulnerabilities. Our threat intelligence… Continue Reading →

Episode 75: The WordPress 5.4.1 Security Release & More Plugin Vulnerabilities - Wordfence Blog

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team unpacked the security updates in WordPress 5.4.1, and they published quite a few blog posts about vulnerabilities in popular plugins like Ninja Forms, LearnPress, and the Real-Time Find and Replace plugin. These plugin vulnerabilities affected… Continue Reading →

Episode 68: More Plugin Vulnerabilities and Active Attack Campaigns - Wordfence Blog

This week, we review numerous plugin vulnerabilities in popular WordPress plugins and the attacks that are targeting them. We also review the Duplicator vulnerability affecting over 1 million sites, and Chloe Chamberland’s discovery of multiple vulnerabilities in the Pricing Table… Continue Reading →

Episode 67: Avoiding Common Vulnerabilities When Developing WordPress Plugins - Wordfence Blog

Almost every week, a new vulnerability is discovered in a popular WordPress plugin or theme, leaving developers scrambling to fix it before it’s widely exploited. Surprisingly, almost all critical vulnerabilities boil down to a few common mistakes. In this talk… Continue Reading →

Episode 66: New Plugin Vulnerabilities & Succeeding as a Digital Nomad with Chloe at WCPHX - Wordfence Blog

It has been a busy week in WordPress security with active attacks on a number of plugins including ThemeRex Addons and Theme Grill Demo Importer plugins. In this week’s Think Like a Hacker, we look at what’s happening, review what… Continue Reading →

Episode 58: Leadership and the Business of WordPress Plugins: Lessons from the Yoast Black Friday Ad - Wordfence Blog

Yoast, the SEO plugin installed on 9 million WordPress sites, ran a Black Friday sale, experimenting with an ad in the WordPress admin dashboard. The internet furor was dramatic, and Yoast’s CEO Marieke van de Rakt took ownership, showing exceptional… Continue Reading →

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