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Holler Box Review – The Friendly WordPress Popup Plugin
Have you noticed how frustrating it can be to browse some websites nowadays? It seems like every day sites get more and more aggressive with opt-ins, overlays, and more. Enter, Holler Box… In a world of lightbox popups and full-screen overlays, Holler Box is a popup plugin that’s a breath of fresh air. Holler Box…
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How to Build Your Own WordPress Wiki
Whether it’s product information, employee guidelines, or how-to’s, businesses tend to create information in droves. Before long however, the need to store that information in a spot where your customers, partners, and employees can get to it becomes an imperative. That’s where a WordPress wiki comes in. In this post we’ll highlight the value a…
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WordCamp Kyoto 2017
I had the honor of presenting this past weekend at WordCamp Kyoto. It wasn’t my first time addressing WordCamp crowds on security topics, but it was my first time in Kyoto, Japan. I felt at home, as the attendees and organizers of this event were excellent at making everyone feel welcome. WordCamp Kyoto The event…
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How to Set Up a WordPress Multisite Network
Multisite is a powerful WordPress feature that allows you to create a network of websites running off of a single WordPress core installation. It’s been around since WordPress 3.0 and quite a lot of big sites use it — WordPress.com, the New York Times, Harvard, and Edublogs to name a few. Read on to learn…
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Running a Successful WordPress Webinar
On September 16th, 2014, a new world record was set when 12,091 people attended the largest ever webinar held by Glavbukh in Russia. What makes this figure so astounding is the fact that only ten years earlier, almost nobody had even heard the word “webinar”. In recent years, many businesses have come to realize the…
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Personalizing Web Experiences to Increase Conversions
Have you ever met a stranger and instantly hit it off? They’re interested in all the same things you are, the conversation flows easily, and you feel like you’ve been friends for years… Such situations might not manifest themselves every day, but we can all agree that it’s pretty awesome when they do. So what…
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Narrowing WordPress Search
One thing you should know about me is that while I’m pretty savvy when it comes to building things for the web today, I’m still pretty new to it. I spent my childhood building theme parks in Roller Coaster Tycoon, not Flash games for Newgrounds. Rather, I gravitated toward web development during the final year…
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A Citizen’s Guide to Open Source Communities
Contributing to open source communities can be a rewarding way to learn, teach, and gain experience in just about any skill imaginable, including code. But getting started, finding an open source project to contribute to, and understanding the etiquette can be a daunting thing when you’re starting out. So much so that an opensource.com survey…
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PHP Object Injection and Insecure Unserialize
I wrote about an influx of PHP Object Injection attacks previously, warning about a trend of attacks targeting a known but somewhat under-reported PHP vulnerability. Looking back since that time, I get the odd feeling that object injection (or as they’re sometimes called unserialize) vulnerabilities keep cropping up. Wondering if this is just a frequency…
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How to Create a WordPress Staging Site (and Why You Need One)
We’re currently updating this piece to be more accurate. In the mean time, check out this piece for current best practices from our Docs team. Have you ever updated a plugin on your WordPress site and had the screen go white? You didn’t change any code, but the site goes pear-shaped right in front of…