As many of you know, WordPress is written in PHP. Finding backdoors in PHP and WordPress code can be quite tricky and sometimes almost impossible: Since backdoors could be hidden anywhere in the code and look like regular code with human coding errors, an... (more…)

A guide to fast page speeds and static Wordpress hosting... (more…)

As an interesting research project, Pan Vagenas, one of our researchers, took a closer look at abandoned plugins in the WordPress repository. His work was inspired by a recent post by Isabel Castillo where she lists the oldest abandoned plugins in the Wor... (more…)

W3Techs shows statistics and trends in the usage of WordPress, 25 May 2017. (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…)