Category: WordPress
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If you have not used or upgraded your current WordPress theme in the last five years, you may not recognize it. Long gone is the Classic Editor, with the introduction of WordPress 5.0 in 2018 and the Gutenberg block editor as the default built-in editor. The block editor uses blocks that add text, media files,…
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To ensure the highest security and performance levels for our services, we’re applying software updates on our server. To minimize the customer impact, the updates are scheduled for Saturday August 13th, 2016. During this maintenance procedure there will be upgrades to PHP and MySQL. cPanel, FTP, and Web Hosting services will experience 2 service interruptions of up to…
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WordPress 4.2.2 security update is release to fix cross-site scripting security vulnerabilities, which affects Genericons icon font package. WordPress versions 4.2 and earlier are affected by XSS vulnerability, which could enable anonymous users to compromise a site. If your site supports automatic background updates you will be updated to WordPress 4.2.2 automatically. Ever since the WordPress 3.7…
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Web sites are becoming more and more vulnerable with each new feature we add, but you can protect yourself. In recent news, the US Federal Bureau of Investigations is urging WordPress users to patch plugins for the popular content management system following a spate of ISIS-branded website attacks, according to a ZDNet article. Of course most…
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There is a new alert out about a WordPress Plugin called WordPress WP-Slimstat, a web analytics plugin for WordPress. A vulnerability affecting the WordPress WP-Slimstat plugin could be exploited through SQL injection attacks to steal data from vulnerable sites. The flaw affects Slimstat versions 3.9.5 and earlier. Users are urged to upgrade to version 3.9.6. All the…
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Shaw Web Designs latest responsive WordPress Theme website for Sutton Construction Inc. located in Vacaville, CA has been launched. This was a great project to work on and we enjoyed working with Lisa Sutton, co-owner of Sutton Construction Inc. Shaw Web Designs worked closely with her, to create a custom website that represented the work…
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In the past month, we have been noticing a high volume of referrals coming from semalt.com domain with hundreds of sub-domains on several of clients’ Google Analytics. After some research we are finding that this is really skewing our stats. High referrals with 100% bounce rates. .htaccess Solution For our WordPress Maintenance Plan customers, we…
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The recent news involving the WordPress MailPoet Plugin vulnerability, is yet another reminder to all web site owners to maintain and update their websites. WordPress is an easy and powerful system that allows all owners to update content with little effort. This system is bases on an open-source model, which is what also makes it so…
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WordPress 3.9 “Smith” released on April 16, 2014 includes a number of updates. Updated Visual Editor Pasting from a word processor is easier now that styling can be clean up quickly. Generally pasting from Word has been an issue, but now you can keep paste as text active, without having to think about it. Image…
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The new WordPress 3.8 has been released and there are some exciting new features to know about. Admin Facelift First there is the new administrator side look. Very clean, with bold colors. In addition the dashboard is now responsive to better manage your site. Twenty Fourteen Theme With the new release comes a new theme….