Unfortunately, most webmasters have to deal with SPAM at some stage. The first unsolicited electronic messages targeting wealthy Americans were transmitted via telegraph in 1864. Today, spammers send… (more…)

Portions of the quickbooks.intuit.com domain use WordPress. Intuit's Jake Martin talks about how and why QuickBooks chose the open-source CMS.

Attacks on WordPress sites using a vulnerability in the REST API, patched in WordPress version 4.7.2, have intensified over the past two days, as attackers have now defaced over 1.5 million pages, spread across 39,000 unique domains.

For maximum security, use esc_html_e() instead of _e() (and esc_html__()/__()), to ensure any unwanted HTML snuck into a translation file is neutralised. For strings that have HTML in them, use wp_...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the international standards organization for the web, is redesigning its website and will soon be selecting a new CMS. Although WordPress is already used to man… (more…)