Note: This post has a detailed follow-up which discusses the identity of the person behind the Display Widgets plugin spam and spam from other plugins. If you have a plugin called “Display Widgets” on your WordPress website, remove it immediately. The las... (more…)

WordPress’ Core systems team had an eventful Friday when an error in the auto-update system caused sites to update to WordPress 5.5.3-alpha-49449, including live production sites with no auto… (more…)

I've been a fan of self-hosted WordPress for years, and always used it as my preferred blogging and website management tool, but when it comes to performance I've never been very impressed by it and... (more…)

Contribute to adamsilverstein/modern-images-wp development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

WordOps is a simple tool that provides the ability to deploy WordPress sites from the command line using an optimized LEMP stack. (more…)