WordPress

WordPress.com — the hosted version of the most popular online publishing platform — has launched WordPress.com Courses with two new subscription-based courses, Blogging for Beginners and Podcasting for Beginners, as they look to move into [Read More]

Photography Business is a free WordPress theme by Zidithemes, with grid structure and a responsive portfolio design. There is also a paid for Pro version with extra features. Photography Business is suitable for personal blog, [Read More]

WordPress version 5.5 “Eckstine” is now available for download from WordPress.org or updating via site dashboard. The new version is named “Eckstine” in honor of Billy Eckstine, an American jazz and pop singer and a [Read More]

WordCamp US 2020 has been cancelled due to the ongoing Corvid-19 pandemic. “It is with heavy hearts that we have made the decision to cancel this year’s WordCamp US event. In light of the continued [Read More]

Wordfence has announced the launch of a new WordPress Security Audit service. The paid for service also includes a Wordfence Premium license for your site. A Wordfence security analyst will perform a 59-point inspection that [Read More]

WordPress 4.7.5 has been released, with 3 maintenance fixes and security fixes. Insufficient redirect validation in the HTTP class. Reported by Ronni Skansing. Improper handling of post meta data values in the XML-RPC API. Reported [Read More]

WordPress 4.7.3 has been released to fix security issues in earlier versions and maintenance fixes. Fixed issue are: Cross-site scripting (XSS) via media file metadata. Reported by Chris Andrè Dale, Yorick Koster, and Simon P. [Read More]

WPKube have published an interesting article: 12 Best WordPress Forum Plugin Options For Community Building on adding a forum to a WordPress self-hosted website. “The bbPress forum plugin is hands down the best option you [Read More]

W3 Total cache – Version 0.9.5.1 is incompatible with WordPress 4.7 according to a post on WordPress.org “you may need to remove it to access your site (Removing the plugin directory is not enough, you [Read More]

Version 4.7 of WordPress, called “Vaughan” in honor of jazz vocalist Sarah “Sassy” Vaughan, is now available for download. New features include a new theme “Twenty Seventeen” with featured images and video headers. Twenty Seventeen [Read More]

WordPress 4.4, named “Clifford” in honor of jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, is now available for download from WordPress org. Version 4.4 features responsive images so that WordPress will automatically serve the right image size for [Read More]