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News & Articles
WordCamp Europe to Offer Free Live Streaming for All Sessions (wptavern.com) WordCamp Europe 2016 is sold out as of last week. With 2200 people expected to attend, it will be the largest WordPress event in history. Those unable to attend the event can now sign up for a free live streaming ticket that includes all sessions and panels.
13 Years Of WordPress (torquemag.io) WordPress launched 13 years. That’s 13 years of blogs, businesses, and community.
The CMS has dramatically evolved over the years and is currently used by more than 25 percent of the entire internet. Needless to say, WordPress has come a long way since Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little teamed up to make blogging easier. We certainly wouldn’t be here without it.
WPBeginner Donates WP.org Domain To WordPress Foundation (torquemag.io) Founder of WPBeginner Syed Balkhi yesterday announced that he has donated the WP.org domain to the WordPress Foundation. For the first time since 2014 when Balkhi purchased the domain, the WP.org URL will not navigate users to WPBeginner.com.
Jetpack 4.0.3 Patches a Critical XSS Vulnerability (wptavern.com) Jetpack 4.0.3 is a security release that contains an important fix for a critical vulnerability that has been present in the plugin since version 2.0, released in 2012. According to Jetpack team member Sam Hotchkiss, a stored XSS vulnerability was found in the way that some Jetpack shortcodes are processed, which allows an attacker to insert JavaScript into comments to hijack a visitor’s browser.
5 Best Plugins For Regulating Comments (torquemag.io) If you run a WordPress blog, then you understand the importance of comments. The comment section of a blog is a great place for readers to engage with one another and build community. Fortunately, WordPress has five plugins make it easy to moderate your comment section.
15 Best SEO Friendly WordPress Themes for Highly Discoverable Content in 2016 (www.elegantthemes.com) SEO is one of the most important aspects of a website. Without it your content will be difficult for search engines to find no matter how great the content is. One of the best ways to improve your search engine optimization is to use an SEO-optimized WordPress theme. With these features in mind we found 15 themes that are SEO friendly and help make your content highly discoverable.
How to Remove Unused CSS JS Files in WordPress (www.cozmoslabs.com) When trying to optimize your site for speed, you really want to remove unused CSS JS files in WordPress .
With WordPress sites using a lot of plugins, when you try to optimize page loading times you’ll soon hit a roadblock.
You got a good fast host, enabled caching, optimized your images and removed any plugin that you don’t use.
Next on the list is to optimize or remove unused CSS JS files in WordPress.
20 Simple Tricks to Secure Your WordPress Website in 2016 (www.codeinwp.com) There are some responsibilities that you have to take care of as a website owner. So the key question is always, what are *you* doing to save your site from being hacked? Today, we plan to discuss quite a few simple tricks that can help you secure your WordPress website.