13 Surprising Facts About WordPress Security, by Jim Walker
Key Takeaways Fact Number Key Takeaway 1 Rising data breaches highlight the need for heightened WordPress security. 2 WordPress’ ecosystem, while versatile, can be a significant security risk. 3 A holistic approach is required for adequate WordPress security. 4 Regular updates and backups are crucial in preventing WordPress cyber attacks. 5 Plugins and themes […]
Your Site is Experiencing a Technical Issue – Or Maybe Not…
One of the most common support requests I receive on a weekly basis have the subject “Your Site is Experiencing a Technical Issue”. These not so helpful email messages were introduced in the release of WordPress 5.2. While I’m sure the WordPress developers who added this feature thought it would be a great way to […]
About that “Weekly jQuery Migrate Status Update” email
We’ve received a good number of support requests about the “Weekly jQuery Migrate Status Update” emails from WordPress this past year. These mailers are a new feature of the “Enable jQuery Migrate Helper” plugin. With the update to WordPress 5.5, a migration tool known as jquery-migrate was disabled by default. This disabling of that function […]
About the HackGuard.com WordPress Updates and Security Service
What Can A Fella Do For $5ish a Month?” (or $14.95 without a bulk discount) I’m asked this question often enough that I feel the need to write a post I could link back to on the topic of, “What can you do for $5ish a month?” Well, quite a lot actually: – Prevent hackers […]
WordPress 4.9.3 – Going into the tunnel and never coming out…
In case you hadn’t heard, in early February 2018, WordPress did a double release of versions, from version 4.9.2 to 4.9.3, then 4.9.4 in a matter of two days. For some WordPress websites, this led to a collision of versions, the end result being it broke the auto-update mechanism, leaving potentially millions of websites stuck […]