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. Briggs. Control characters can trick redirect URL validation. Reported by Daniel Chatfield. Unintended files can be deleted by administrators using […]
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 can use to implement a forum on your website. A while back there used to be plenty more offerings in […]
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 also need to remove the db.php, advanced-cache.php and object-cache.php files manually from the wp-content/ directory).”
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 features: multiple sections on the front page, selected in the Customizer. a striking asymmetrical grid. custom color schemes, built on […]
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 the user’s browser, device, and screen size. WordPress 4.4 users will be able to embed posts from other WordPress sites. […]
