If you use WordPress to build and manage your website, you know about its powerful built-in features and ease of use. But did you know that you can add extra functionality and power up your website by using plugins?
We’ve put together this comprehensive guide to help you navigate the world of plugins. Read on as we explore what WordPress plugins are and answer common questions about how to find, use, and install the perfect ones for your site.
The premium version of the WordPress plugin 3DPrint is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and directory traversal attacks when the file manager functionality is enabled. These vulnerabilities allow an attacker to delete or get access to arbitrary files and directories on the affected sites, including sensitive files like the site configuration files, which again could lead to a full site takeover.
Your WordPress database contains all of your site’s essential content, including comments, posts, pages, and revisions. But this database can get bloated over time, slowing down your website and harming its loading times. This can frustrate your visitors and make the WordPress admin dashboard slower to use.
Fortunately, there are a couple of ways to clean up your database. You can automate the process using a WordPress database optimization plugin like WP-Optimize. Alternatively, if you’re more experienced, you could use phpMyAdmin to have complete control over the process.
In this post, we’ll explain how to clean up and optimize your WordPress database to boost your site’s performance. Then, we’ll wrap up with some frequently asked questions. Let’s get started!
With Jetpack 11.6, we added new features to the Form Block and our SEO tools, together with several other improvements and bug fixes for a better Jetpack experience.
This month we shipped block pattern support for Jetpack Forms, making form creation more effortless than ever. With this feature, you can view, select and customize existing form templates without a hassle. Use the new Explore Form Patterns button to find the perfect template quickly:
Step 1: Add the Form Block and click Explore Form Patterns
Step 2: Select among the existing form templates and start customizing
We also deployed several fixes and enhancements to boost the block performance.
SEO matters!
We have new SEO features that will be available with Jetpack 11.6:
You can now tell search engines not to index a specific post or page. This is helpful if you want to share a public post or page with specific people but not the web. This can be enabled within the editor in the SEO section by toggling “Hide page from search engines.”
You can also set a custom SEO title for individual posts and pages. A page’s title tag is displayed as part of the search snippet in a search engine’s results page, as well as in the browser tab, giving readers an indication of the topic being discussed.
You can test new SEO features under the Jetpack SEO section
Automattic Certified as a Most Loved Workplace
Our parent company Automattic has been certified as a Most Loved Workplace by Best Practice Institute research and analysis. The Most Loved Workplace validation provides the most comprehensive look at workplace sentiment for organizations today. To learn more about Automattic’s certification and read why folks love working here, visit our page on Most Loved Workplace.
We continue to grow and have some exciting open positions at Automattic, including in Engineering, Product, Marketing, Business Development, HR, Customer Support, and more. Work for us, from anywhere: https://automattic.com/work-with-us/
A big thank you to everyone who contributed to this release: Adnan Haque, Adrian Moldovan, Al-Ameen Ogundiran, Anthony Grullon, Antony Agrios, Brad Jorsch, Brandon Kraft, Briley Hooper, Chris Jean, Christian Gastrell, Damián Suárez, Dan Roundhill, Daniel Post, Derek Smart, Donncha Ó Caoimh, Douglas Henri, Dusty Reagan, Eric Binnion, Foteini Giannaropoulou, Gabriel Demichelis, George Stephanis, Gergely Márk Juhász, Grant Kinney, Heyde Moura, Ivan Ottinger, Jared, Jason Moon, Jasper Kang, Jennifer Swisher, John Caruso, John Webb, Juanma Rodriguez Escriche, Karen Attfield, Kev, Kuba Birecki, Linas Valiukas, Luiz Kowalski, Matt Wiebe, Miguel San Segundo, Miguel Xavier Penha Neto, Mike Stott, Nate Weller, Nauris Pūķis, Omar Alshaker, Osk, Panos (Panagiotis Synetos), Paul Bunkham, Peter Petrov, Philip Jackson, Pierre, Piotr Stankowski, Rafael Agostini, Renato Augusto Gama dos Santos, Robert Felty, Samiff, Sergey Mitroshin, Steve D, Steven Dufresne, Tim Broddin, Welly, Wilmerson da Silva, Wojtek Naruniec, Yaroslav Kukharuk, bindlegirl, dkmyta, jboland88, jcheringer, nunyvega, thingalon, vykes-mac
JavaScript is one of the most popular programming languages in the world. Most websites use it to create more dynamic experiences for visitors. Critical features like contact forms and site analytics are just a couple of ways JavaScript is put into practice on a daily basis. Unfortunately, while it’s highly useful, all of this code has the potential to slow down your site.
Deferring parsing of JavaScript (also just called, “deferring JavaScript”) means telling your site to load your non-essential JavaScript code last. This simple tweak can improve your page loading times and overall performance, depending on the number of scripts your website uses.
In this article, we’ll break down exactly what parsing is and what deferring involves. We’ll also discuss how deferring JavaScript can benefit your site and show you how to do it. Finally, we’ll wrap up with some frequently asked questions (FAQs) to address any remaining doubts.
Things don’t always go perfectly, and they seem to go wrong at the worst possible time. If you have a website, you may be familiar with this conundrum. Right when you’re about to publish a post you’ve been working on for hours, your power goes out, your browser crashes, or your cat walks across your keyboard.
But all is not lost! The WordPress autosave feature makes it possible to get that work back quickly and easily. Let’s find out how.
Whether you sell physical products, digital items, services, bookings, or courses, an online store can be an incredible opportunity to reach your target audience. It helps you reach people where they already spend their time, even if they’re always on the go. And it allows you to share the benefits and strengths of your products in the best way possible.
But how do you get started selling online? And what tools do you need to build the best ecommerce store?
Let’s take a look at WooCommerce, a powerful ecommerce platform. We’ll learn what it is, how businesses use it to run their stores, and the steps you can take to get started.
Picture this: an excited fan comes to your site to buy your newest product, or read your latest article. They go to the search box, type it in…and it doesn’t work. Sadness.
No matter the size of your site, people expect a working search box. That’s why we’re excited to bring the power and ease of Jetpack Search to even the smallest sites.
We’ve simplified our pricing, and also added a free tier and a 3-month free trial. Add Jetpack Search to your site to see how much it helps your fans find what they’re looking for — available today through Jetpack, the new standalone Jetpack Search plugin, and WordPress.com.
When you’re working on a page or post in WordPress, you’ll likely go through several versions or “revisions.” WordPress revisions are the drafts of content you create using the editor. The revisions system works in the background to ensure that you always have previous versions of your work on hand.
In this article, we’ll outline everything you need to know about WordPress post revisions. We’ll discuss how they work, where you can find them, and how to use them.
Sometimes, a plugin can cause a fatal or critical error in WordPress that results in loss of access to a site’s web pages or WP Admin area. When a fatal error occurs on a WordPress site, it’s usually due to a bug in a plugin or theme’s code that causes the site’s server to become stuck and unable to respond to requests.
