The development of WordPress 6.2 introduced improvements to how the core development team works, resulting in a consistent focus on performance at every step of development. These new processes catch problems at the time changes are introduced, preventing them from making it into the final version release. The two improvements responsible for this change are:…
Former co-owner of Yoast, Marieke van de Rakt, followed her husband, Joost de Valk, in stepping away from the popular Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin company. The move ushers in a new era under the ownership of Newfold Digital. Yoast SEO – Marieke van de Rakt Yoast SEO plugin, arguably one of the most popular and…
WordPress security plugin discovered to have two vulnerabilities that could allow a malicious upload, cross-site scripting and allow viewing of contents of arbitrary files. All-In-One Security (AIOS) WordPress Plugin The All-In-One Security (AIOS) WordPress plugin, provided by the publishers of UpdraftPlus, offers security and firewall functionality designed to lock out hackers. It offers log-in security…
Adobe released a PDF Embed WordPress plugin provides additional ways to display PDFs online in a way that makes them user friendly, pleasantly interactive and useful. The new plugin makes PDF more usable on the web, with four different ways to view a file without any of the inconveniences. Adobe’s plugin page in the official…
WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world, with a market share of more than 60%. A big support community and a number of available free plugins make building a website with WordPress (WP) affordable, and it plays a key role in why its market share is so big. However, as…
The founders of Yoast SEO plugin announced an investment in a WordPress accessibility plugin that scans and reports on accessibility issues and makes it easy to troubleshoot entire websites. Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker Making a website accessible is so much more than making sure colors have adequate contrast and images contain alt text. There are…
Automattic, publishers of the WooCommerce plugin, announced the discovery and patch of a critical vulnerability in the WooCommerce Payments plugin. The vulnerability allows an attacker to gain Administrator level credentials and perform a full site-takeover. Administrator is the highest permission user role in WordPress, granting full access to a WordPress site with the ability to…
Keeping track of the latest industry news is hard to do. Enter: the SEJ Sum-Up. Every Friday, we condense the top stories you need to know – from search to social to AI and beyond – into one easy-to-digest post. This week’s top stories include an update to Google desktop search, Bing reaching new heights,…
The United States Government National Vulnerability Database (NVD) published an advisory about a vulnerability discovered in the WP Statistics WordPress plugin that affects up to 600,000 active installations. The vulnerability was assigned a medium threat level score of 6.5 out of a scale of 1 to 10, with level 10 representing the most severe vulnerability…
The United States National Vulnerability Database published an advisory of an XSS vulnerability affecting the popular Metform Elementor Contact Form Builder, which exposes over 200,000 active installs to the vulnerability. Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) A stored XSS vulnerability is one in which a website fails to properly secure an input, like a submission form,…
