WordPress

Last week Automattic, the company responsible for the hosted version of WordPress (WordPress.com), announced a new partnership with Google and other major media publishers. The partnership in question is intended to help deliver a fresh way to produce small to medium online news publications. This potentially revolutionary project has been named Newspack. First Thoughts – […]

Over a year ago, Matt Mullenweg (co-founder of the WordPress project) told the community of WordPress developers to ‘learn JavaScript deeply’. Since then, a new feature project was created with the aim of improving the way people create content on WordPress. For many years, TinyMCE (Tiny Moxiecode Content Editor) has been the face of content […]

Over the many years that WordPress has existed, it has constantly grown and become a more and more complex Content Management System (CMS). This means the broad set of features available allows anyone from a developer to a regular user to use it in a variety of different ways. Essentially, you’re able to chop and […]

In 2003 WordPress launched as a rudimentary tool to improve typography. Now in 2017 over 27% of the entire World Wide Web is using WordPress to power their websites, with more than 24 posts being published every second. So with 1 in every 4 websites using WordPress as their CMS, it’s more than likely that […]

Previously I discussed ways to monitor for hacking and discover if/when your site had been attacked when you otherwise might not know. Now I’d like to talk about ways to prevent your site being hacked in the first place… More and more we’re seeing websites being hacked with nefarious content (and links) being injected in […]

I was recently asked by a client of ours to do a comparison of a few content management systems for a project that they are currently working through. One of their key concerns was security and I collated my thoughts on the matter… so I thought I’d share them with the wider world. I’ve used […]