Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, is buying WooCommerce, a popular e-commerce platform built on WordPress with over $1 million in monthly recurring revenue. Automattic chief and WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg announced the deal today, but declined to share the terms of the deal. Here’s what we know: WooCommerce’s 55 employees are joining Automattic, WooCommerce is currently […]
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At least 17 of WordPress’s most popular plugins – and likely even more of them – are vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws that could allow attackers to inject malicious code in the browsers of the sites’ visitors. The latest security hole and vulnerability has arrived only days after WordPress was updated to fix a similar
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We have been rapping on this for years it seems (actually it has been years, first time we used WPTouch was 2013) and now the GOOG has warned us of their impending Mobile-Friendly Algorithm Update. It’s important enough not to be a cute and cuddly, Penguin or Panda but more like Mobilegeddon, Mobocalypse, Mobilepocalyse or mopocalypse,
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Millions of WordPress sites have been exposed to a Blind SQL Injection vulnerability due to a security hole in the very popular Yoast SEO plugin. The plugin has been updated by makers, so make sure to update your plugin ASAP. The Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin is used by over 1+ Million WordPress websites (see their downloads) and
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We spend a ridiculous amount of time talking to our client about why everyone MUST publish on their own website “real estate” first, and then distribute the link out over whatever social network takes their fancy. There have been quite a few very good articles lately focusing on this simple truth: If you “share” this article with your fans/followers on
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Even with the amount of experience we have in all our Flying Monkey Tribes, this is something we end up spending an inordinate amount of time organising and sorting out for any new clients. Anyway, here is the simplest step by step process you can take to transfer a domain name from one registrar to
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What do you reckon: Are we all totally underestimating the importance of email nowadays? Maybe because it gets lost in so much bloody spam, or because of alternative social comms like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook? A recent blog post reminded me recently that email is really the spine of social media.
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On September 4, 2014, WordPress Version 4.0 “Benny”, named for jazz musician Benny Goodman, was released to the public. The latest version of the WordPress CMS adds an improved rich-content editor and plugin discoverability.
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A couple of days ago Google confirmed, via Matt Cutt’s Twitter account, that the GOOG has rolled out Panda 4.0, their newest search algorithm update.
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WordPress Version 3.9 , code-named “Smith” in honour of the jazz musician Jimmy Smith, is today available for download, or probably better and more likely for most of us by clicking that update button in our WordPress dashboards. This release features a number of refinements that we hope you’ll love. The Army of Flying Monkeys have updated 5 sites today
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