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How to Build a WordPress Website with the Genesis Framework
Choosing the right platform for a large-scale company can make or break the success of your website. The wrong choice can cost you time, resources, and sales when it doesn’t perform as expected. WordPress is an enterprise-ready platform, as evidenced by its WordPress.com multisite installation supporting more than 21.3 billion visits every month. This includes…
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40 Must-Read Blogs for Leadership & Entrepreneurs
Countless entrepreneurs have written about their personal experiences — their wildly successful ventures and stunning failures. Some are so transparent that they publish their financials for others to dissect and comment upon. These 40 blogs for C-suite, executives and entrepreneurs are must-reads, so browse through and add your favorites to your morning repertoire. This collection…
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WordPress Version Release Updates
WordPress 4.9 – Tipton Nov. 16, 2017 An exciting new release of WordPress is out. WordPress 4.9 “Tipton” is now available. Hats off to all 443 contributors (!) who made this release possible. From the blog post on WordPress.org: New features in 4.9 will smooth your design workflow and keep you safe from coding errors.…
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BOO! Weird WordPress Themes to Gawk At
Never thought WordPress could be spooky enough to merit a Halloween reference? BOO. We found the spookiest, scariest, creepiest WordPress themes you’ll come across. Just kidding. But we did find some of the most unusual (read: extremely niche) options out there, for your viewing pleasure. Case Case is a one-page parallax WordPress theme with a…
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The Enterprise IoT Platform Construction Kit: Part 1
The mission of this 3 part series of articles, released in monthly installments, is to discuss the options for constructing an enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) platform. By now you have most likely heard of the Internet of Things (IoT) and your enterprise may even be planning an IoT platform. There are many different enterprise…
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5 Best WordPress Advertising Plugins for Sites of All Sizes
Whether you’re a large digital publisher or a solo-blogger, ads are usually at least a part of what helps you keep the lights on. But WordPress, much as we may love it, doesn’t provide any easy way to manage advertisements…at least out of the box. That’s where WordPress advertising plugins come in. These plugins help…
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The PHP Object Injection Odyssey
The past few months we have noticed a trend of new and increasing PHP Object Injection attacks targeting WordPress sites. In a few cases in the last months our standard incident response process was identifying sites were had just cleaned were getting re-infected. Our response? Hack harder than the hackers, and we found multiple undisclosed…
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How to Address Object Injection Vulnerabilities in PHP
I have been discussing the risks related to PHP Object Injection or insecure usage of unserialize() and how this insecure coding practice is unfortunately very prevalent in the WordPress plugin ecosystem. This post is for plugin (and really any PHP) developers for the purpose to share why you shouldn’t unseralize() data sent from untrusted sources,…