Information is Wealth.

I’m not foolish enough to think that the entirety of WordPress’ growth is driven by our love for the software, but that we consultants are responsible for a sizeable portion of it. A portion that shouldn’t be ignored and one that should be welcome to the discussion more often. I know many of you are like me, we don’t run 100+ person agencies, we don’t have 1mil+ plugin downloads, and we haven’t been contributing code to core for the last decade. However, what we do share in common is a life of servicing customers in the online business space. Servicing customers or our local community by way of building websites — helping organizations amplify their message. This act of service is deeply rooted in using our favorite tool, WordPress. Sure, we’re  talking less and less about the tech side  of things lately, but we know that it delivers a massive advantage as a platform to our customers. An advantage that might not matt...

I remember the days when I couldn’t even embed a YouTube video on my WordPress site without a special plugin, and even then it would only work about half the time. And I think I’m supposed to say something about it. My point is that if you’re using WordPress as a home base for your live streams, your life is going to be a lot easier than mine was when I wanted to do my part to share the newest Taylor Swift video back with the world back in the day. What You're Going To Stream? Streaming live video is not as simple as pressing a button. Okay, so there  are  ways to do that through apps like Periscope or even just the plain ol’ Facebook app, but that’s for casual, off-the-cuff stuff. Candid video, mainly. If you plan on doing a higher-quality live stream with its home as your WordPress site, you’re going to have a unique set of needs based on exactly what your stream will contain. Video Games Live streaming video games is big business. You’ve got  Twitch.tv ,  P...

For the past two and a half months, a WordPress plugin named Display Widgets has been used to install a backdoor on WordPress sites across the Internet. The backdoor code was found between Display Widgets version 2.6.1 (released June 30) and version 2.6.3 (released September 2). The WordPress.org team has intervened and removed the plugin from the official WordPress Plugins repository. At the time it was removed, the plugin was installed on more than 200,00 sites, albeit we cannot be sure how many of these were updated to a version that included the malicious behavior. More surprising is that WordPress.org staff members removed the plugin three times before for similar violations. A history of events is compiled below, put together with data aggregated from three different investigations by  David Law ,  White Fir Design , and  Wordfence . Plugin sold to new developer in May The original Display Widgets is a plugin that allowed WordPress site owners to control which...