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Top 9 Ecommerce CMS Platforms for 2025
When customers visit an online store, they’re often greeted with a sleek interface, high-resolution images, and detailed product descriptions. Like a Broadway musical, it’s a flawless production. Backstage, however, there’s an ecommerce content management system (CMS) handling and organizing all this content. An ecommerce CMS allows you to present a well-designed, trustworthy website, integrating front-end elegance with secure back-end management.
2024 Survey of WordPress Professionals and What It Tells Us About the One Person Agencies
Kyle Van Deusen of the Admin Bar recently released the results of the 2024 Survey of WordPress Professionals. There were 1,233 responses and he shared some general insights, as did others. One of the nice things about the survey is that Kyle made the data available so that we can dig into it ourselves. The author has spent some time looking at the data, focusing on “one person agencies” in the United States.
A Huge Online Fraud Operation Is Hijacking WordPress Sites to Send Out 1.4 Billion Ad Requests per Day
Cybersecurity researchers from HUMAN have spotted a major ad fraud operation that leverages people’s interest in pirated content to generate ad revenue from otherwise non monetizable content. In an in-depth report, HUMAN explained pirated websites don’t host ads because they would “run afoul of most advertisers’ policies”. Instead, they are partnering with hundreds of website owners (scammers, basically) who deploy a set of four WordPress plugins on their assets.
