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• Developing on WordPress? Avoid these 5 common pitfalls

  As developers, we make different types of mistakes at different points in our career. In WordPress development, in particular, we make different types of mistakes as our familiarity with the WordPress codebase grows. Some years ago I heard Matt Mullenweg declare something to the ...

  • Scott Fennell

• CHEAP: Yes, YOU can get 5 months FREE with WP Engine, the WordPress host

  WP Engine is one of the most prominent WordPress hosters around, and over this Cyber Weekend we have a great deal: FIVE FREE ...

  • Callum Booth

• Researchers find fake WordPress plugins that secretly mine cryptocurrency

  Researchers have discovered several malicious WordPress plugins that are being used to surreptitiously mine cryptocurrency ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Verizon sells Tumblr to Wordpress, but don't expect NSFW posts back

  After spending a few years doing pretty much nothing of note with the site, Verizon's offloading Tumblr to Automattic, the company that owns Wordpress. However, despite the new management, the site apparently won't reinstate its NSFW content. https://twitter.com/automattic/status/1161025027527139328 The Wall ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• WordPress announces a toolkit to kickstart small to mid-sized newsrooms

  WordPress, the open source CMS that powers nearly one-third of the web, is now looking to streamline newsrooms around the world. In 2019, we’ll see a new commitment to small and medium-sized publishers with a toolkit called Newspack. Born of a partnership between WordPress and ...

  • Bryan Clark

• WordPress 5.0 introduces a flexible block-based content editor

  Automattic has just released version 5.0 of its immensely popular WordPress CMS, with a bunch of new features centered around ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Researcher finds 50,000 sites infected with cryptocurrency mining malware

  Security researcher Troy Mursch from Bad Packets Report has discovered nearly 50,000 WordPress sites have been infected with ...

  • Mix

• 30% of all sites now run on WordPress

  The folks at San Francisco-based Automattic have a good reason to celebrate this Monday: its WordPress content management ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Top 5 WordPress predictions for 2018

  Though many Internet users might not be aware of it, WordPress actually powers a huge number of the world’s websites. In fact, it is estimated that about 27.5 percent of the top websites worldwide rely on WordPress for their operation. With such staggering numbers, it is not ...

  • David Geer

• Wordpress.com's new Paypal integration makes it easier for bloggers to sell stuff online

  Selling goods and services on Wordpress.com just got a lot easier. Yesterday, Automattic announced the launch of a Simple Payment button that allows users of the hosted blog/site/CMS service to accept Paypal payments in just a few clicks. The feature is currently available ...

  • Matthew Hughes

• Wordpress.com is opening itself up to third-party plugins and themes

  Third-party plugins and themes are coming to Wordpress.com

  • Matthew Hughes

• WordPress.com for Google Docs lets you edit in Docs and publish in WordPress

  Wordpress is teaming up with Google to bring an integration for Docs that lets you write, edit and collaborate with colleagues ...

  • Mix