55% of hacked WordPress sites are via plugins – how are yours looking?
According to a recent article from the great folks at Wordfence, over 55% of hacked websites are due to a vulnerability of a plugin on…
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WordCamp Atlanta 2016 Recap
This weekend marked the 6th annual WordCamp Atlanta, and although it was my first WordCamp appearance I heard from many that this year’s conference was…
Meetup Business Panel: Learning from those that do it well
GreenMellen invited three local WordPress-focused business owners to join us at our most recent Meetup to discuss various aspects of owning a business. Fill out…
What is the dark web and why should I care?
You may have heard about the “dark web” here and there, but what exactly is it? It’s any set of web content that can’t be…
Meetup: From NOT to HOT with Javascript
JavaScript is an important part of WordPress, and will become even more so in the future, as Matt said in his State of the Word…
WordPress 4.4. is out! Here is what’s new.
WordPress 4.4 was just released and you can download it from the WordPress.org download page right now. While it has been tested extensively by tens…
Malware is getting worse, so keep your website secure
A popular form of malware on computers is known as “ransomware”. This malware will lock up all of your files and encrypt them, and the only…
Don’t be too loyal to the brands you love
We all have brands that we love, whether it’s clothing, cars, electronics or any other area of life. There are reasons that we love those…
How to change your WordPress username
For years, when you installed WordPress it would suggest that you set your username to “admin”. As a result, millions of WordPress sites have a…
Presidential hopefuls love WordPress
As you may know, we love WordPress and use it for the core of every site we build. We have our reasons for using it,…
WordPress version 4.3 is here
WordPress version 4.3 has just been released (you can download it here) and includes a variety of nice additions. While there are quite a few…
What is a custom post type?
When using WordPress, most people stick to the built-in “posts” and “pages”. However, WordPress also has a powerful feature available called “custom post types”. While they…
Meetup: Useful Developer Tools and Resources
Did you miss the Meet-Up today on Developer Tools? Our test live broadcast for Periscope was a success! If you missed the Meet-Up, you can…
WordPress 4.2 has been released
WordPress version 4.2 has just been released and you can download it here. While there are no major security fixes in this release, it solves…
How Google decides to index your content
I like to tell people that “Google doesn’t search the internet” because technically it doesn’t. Instead, Google makes a copy of as much of the…
