It has been a few weeks since we have seen an exploit in a WordPress plugin popular in the SEO community, but a new one has been discovered and fixed, this time in a popular caching plugin with over 1 million active installs. The plugin in question is WP Super Cache, “A very fast caching […]
Major WordPress Exploit Affecting Sites with Shareaholic Social Media Sharing Plugin
A major exploit has been discovered in the popular WordPress plugin Shareaholic earlier this month that has left some websites with spam from being hacked through the exploit, with many more sites that re vulnerable. Shareaholic is one of the two most popular social media sharing WordPress plugins, with over 100,000 active installs with AddThis […]
Major WordPress Exploit Affecting Sites using WordPress SEO by Yoast
The major exploit has been discovered in the extremely popular SEO WordPress plugin, WordPress SEO by Yoast. All WordPress blogs that are currently using this SEO plug-in need to upgrade to the latest version. This exploit means that blogs using WordPress and this plugin are vulnerable to a Blind SQL Injection. This particular exploit requires […]
Twitter Finally Releases Official Twitter WordPress Plugin
If handing over credentials to your Twitter account for a WordPress plugin has you feeling a bit squeamish, you will be happy to know that Twitter has finally released their own official Twitter plugin. This actually surprising that it has taken so long for Twitter to release their own plugin. Many anxious for an official […]
Google Blocking Websites Infected with Malware Through Fancybox-for-WordPress
If you use the WordPress plugin “Fancybox-for-Wordpress” , you want to ensure that you have updated the latest version, as there is an exploit that is injecting malware into WordPress sites. The exploit is hard to spot, and you might not realize you are infected until you receive an email from Google to inform you […]
Some Of My Favorite Must-Have WordPress Plugins
As I sat with my staff discussing WordPress plugins and talking with my staff about making a list of all the ones we put on the majority of WordPress sites we work on it stuck me, “I’ll bet,” I thought to myself, “that others might find this list handy as well.” That thought was well […]
Major WordPress Exploit Affecting Hundreds of Thousands of Sites using RevSlider Premium Plugin
An exploit in a WordPress plug-in has resulted in the infection of over 100,000 WordPress websites since Sunday. And what is worse, because the plugin is bundled with many themes, many webmasters might be unaware that they use it and are not getting plugin update reminders for what has been termed as a Zero Day […]
Analyzing SEO WordPress Plugins
According to W3, WordPress now powers more than 22% of the web. It was the fastest growing CMS in 2013, and that trend has showed no signs of stopping. We conducted a study of over 48 million sites using the SEO service Lipperhey and found that, of the sites with CMS’s that the SEO tool […]
WordPress SEO Plugins Used by 49% Sites, But Best Performing is Surprising
WordPress is an incredibly popular CMS system. And according to Lipperhey, WordPress powers over 22% of the entire web. In a sample of 21 million sites in the US, WordPress is the CMS used behind 68% of the websites that were running on a known CMS. Joomla was the second most popular CMS with 18% […]