WordPress 5.1 Dropped Last Week WordPress vulnerabilities in WP Core through version 5.0.3 have been published by US-CERT. One allows a Path Transversal in the wp_crop_image() variable. This flaw has been present in WordPress for a long time. If you’ve made the jump to 5.0, please update to 5.1 right away. If you’ve not made […]
January 28th is Data Privacy Day! Data Privacy Day (DPD) will be held on January 28th, 2019. It is an annual effort to promote data privacy awareness and education. DPD 2019 is sponsored by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), focus around the theme, A New Era in Privacy. The NCSA Stay Safe Online website will feature
You can find Part 1 of this series on Technical SEO at “The Need for Website Speed – Technical SEO” In my first article for OPPA’s FOCUS OREGON Magazine, I discussed why your photography website needs to load fast. Our shift to mobile devices and ever-decreasing attention span can impact both the number of visitors
Note: This post was written for the Oregon Professional Photographers Association’s (OPPA) Focus Oregon magazine, October 2018. I happen to be an international award-winning photographer, among other things ;). Photographers are mostly “do-it-yourselfers.” I think sometimes it’s because most of us are really curious, but I think that it’s most often because of our budgets.
Another week gone and more WordPress vulnerabilities to report. See US-CERT Bulletin (SB18-064) for more information. This week it’s two VERY popular plugins (1M active Installations), both of which I use on almost all of my websites. The first is iThemes Security. The plugin versions before 6.9.1 for WordPress do not properly perform data escaping for
In a never-ending quest to get webmasters to think about WordPress security, here is the latest update from the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Awareness System. There were five new vulnerabilities discovered in four plugins in the WordPress ecosystem over the past couple of weeks. They are all cross-site scripting (XSS) WordPress vulnerabilities.
I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be speaking on basic WordPress Security at WordCamp Albuquerque on January 19th, 2018. This was a very busy week when it comes to hackers attacking WordPress websites. I talk to people about WordPress security best practices a lot, but most don’t want to hear it. They don’t think
You may be thinking, “Who in the world would want to hack my lowly little WordPress website?” Well 48 hours worth of data from a brand spanking new WordPress website may just show you. I installed a fresh copy of WordPress on a new domain on February 1, 2017. By the evening of February 3,
As a follow-up to our article back in August on Facebook Instant Articles, today we’re sharing our Transformer Rules for the Divi framework. We ended up with the following Custom Facebook Instant Articles Transformer Rules to make Divi acceptable to Facebook Instant Articles markup. You can find the rules already incorporated into the Instant Articles
SSL Certificates are Now Required by Chrome Update: January 9, 2017 Google has finally rolled out changes in Chrome that make the fact that you don’t have an SSL Certificate glaringly obvious to your visitors. Elegant Themes has posted a nice piece about it, but this is what it looks like… You definitely don’t
Here at Blue Sky Digital Strategy, we are fanatical about website and server performance. We employ a variety of tools to eek out as much speed as we can from our servers and site configurations. Enter Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) –a Google/Twitter/WordPress-supported open source project that allows any publisher to load pages at lightning speed on mobile devices.
Update 7/2/2017: I’m not quite sure what happened, but there was an update for the FBIA WordPress plugin today. I went back into Facebook’s Business Manager, and magically, Instant Articles was working again. Still no response from the Facebook support team. Anyway, everything seems to be right in Facebook world again ;). Update 6/24/2017:
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