WordPress core contributor and development leader Adam Silverstein recently unveiled WordPress 4.5.3 Security and Maintenance release, one of the more significant security releases for WordPress till date. Compiled by over 20 awesome WordPress developers, this security release focuses on issues pertaining to functioning and of course, chinks in the armor. Here’s what it’s all about. […]
Here’s what solid, steady growth looks like. Note how no other CMS comes even close to WordPress in terms of usage: CMS Usage Stats, April 2015-2016: Source That’s right. The ‘scrappy open source underdog’ (as Matt Mullenweg calls it) now powers well over a quarter of all CMS-using websites on the internet. As a professional […]
It’s been almost a week since WordPress 4.5.2 Security Release, and if you haven’t already, you should update now. The reason for this persistence – This release fixes some really embarrassing and easily exploitable security vulnerabilities present in WordPress since at least 4.2. This is an end-user/ client/ non-developer version of what was wrong and […]
Almost two weeks and six million downloads, the dedicated core contributors came up with fixes to some major reported bugs in WordPress 4.5 Coleman. This brings us nicely to WordPress 4.5.1 Maintenance Release, available for download on WordPress.org. The release fixes a dozen bugs with revisions made in over 25 core files. Most notable fixes […]
After 4 months, just as many betas, two security releases for rather alarming vulnerabilities later, we finally have WordPress 4.5. And we love how it turned out after all. Yes, it’s named after a jazz prodigy (it’s a WP tradition) Coleman Hawkins. I would suggest you pull up ‘Body and Soul’ on iTunes and keep […]
There’s more to social media than virtual socializing. With over half the global population on some social platform (except MySpace… because UGH), it’d be downright bizarre for you and your business to stay away from it. Statistically, there’s a high chance that at least half of your target audience is constantly tweeting, checking Newsfeeds, uploading […]
Before we start with How, let’s see exactly Why it’s important to focus on performance. After a series of server-delay experiments conducted over a span of 4-6 weeks: Bing’s findings show strong negative impact on number of clicks, user experience, and revenue generated/user proportional to time delays of just milliseconds. Google found out that interaction […]
