Published on: 2025-06-12 20:25:44
WordPress.com parent company Automattic is changing direction… again. In a blog post titled “Returning to Core” published Thursday evening, Automattic announced it will unpause its contributions to the WordPress project. This is despite having said only last month that the 6.8 WordPress release would be the final major release for all of 2025. “After pausing our contributions to regroup, rethink, and plan strategically, we’re ready to press play again and return fully to the WordPress project,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 20:50:36
WordPress announced on Tuesday that it has formed an AI team to steward the development of AI products among its developer community. The team includes James LePage (leader of AI at Automattic, WordPress’ parent company), Felix Arntz and Pascal Birchler from Google, and Jeff Paul (Director of Open Source at web design firm 10up). As one of the most dominant platforms for building websites, WordPress has already seen developers within its open source community experiment with AI tools. The crea
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 08:30:13
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 20:46:18
A critical privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in the premium WordPress theme Motors, which allows unauthenticated attackers to hijack administrator accounts and take complete control of websites. Developed by StylemixThemes, Motors is one of the top-selling automotive themes for the WordPress platform. It is very popular among automotive businesses such as car dealerships, rental services, and used vehicle listing platforms. It has over 22,300 sales on the Envato market, wi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 14:52:53
Picostrap 5 - Bootstrap 5 WordPress Starter Theme The fastest Bootstrap 5 WordPress starter theme. Experience the power of SASS merged with the WordPress Customizer. Picostrap 5 leverages the flexibility of Bootstrap 5 (currently v5.3+) and integrates it deeply with the WordPress Customizer. Customize Bootstrap's look and feel directly from your WordPress backend, and Picostrap will recompile the necessary CSS on the fly using a built-in SASS compiler that runs right in your browser. Watch th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 07:10:32
World Password Day (on May 1st) is an annual reminder of the – absolute – necessity of employing strong, unique passwords to protect your digital existence. In the midst of all the reports about compromised data and hacked accounts, (too) many individuals still persist in using weak or redundant passwords and put their online presence at risk in the process. The truth is, until you’ve tried using a password manager, you just can’t get how much easier and more secure it makes your life online. In
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-27 16:17:00
WTF?! The proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft to facilitate remote connections to Windows machines contains an outstanding security flaw. However, Microsoft has stated that it has no plans to fix the issue, as doing so would break compatibility with many applications. Independent researchers have discovered, or should we say rediscovered, a major security vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Previously known as Terminal Services, RDP appears to be designed to alwa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-31 16:00:05
Spring cleaning means more than just dusting off your curtains or decluttering your desk. It's also the perfect time to tidy up your digital life, starting with your passwords. World Password Day is observed on the first Thursday in May, a day that's been encouraging people to review their passwords and security settings since Intel created the event in 2013. Read more: Best Password Manager in 2025 Nearly every year, a list of the worst passwords makes the rounds online, and the same weak ch
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-29 22:30:54
If you’ve ever been asked by Google Chrome to reset a password because of a data breach, then you understand just how unnerving it can be. These notices serve to illustrate the need for securing your accounts but repeating the process of generating and recalling individual passwords isn’t an easy feat. So that you won’t fall prey to the danger of using reused passwords, an effective password manager such as NordPass is just the ticket. It simplifies password management but it also enhances your
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-02 20:40:17
John Lamb/Getty Images Creating a website for yourself, even a simple one, can be time-consuming. For years, I have wanted to set up a site for my freelance writing business with links to published articles, but with daily deadlines and other obligations, I have never been able to find the time. Now, a new AI-powered tool from WordPress could tackle the task for me. Also: The top 20 AI tools of 2025 - and the #1 thing to remember when you use them Unveiled on Thursday, the free WordPress AI W
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-03 04:52:00
What just happened? WordPress.com has just rolled out an AI website builder that can create an entire site in just minutes, complete with written content, images, layout, and more. It's now available in early access to all users, and it's initially free to try out. You will just need a WordPress.com account to get started. The feature, dubbed the WordPress AI Site Builder, offers a chat interface similar to ChatGPT, except your prompts help design the website. You start by describing the type o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-04 05:28:17
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. WordPress.com has launched a new AI-powered site builder in early access that can construct your WordPress webpage, including fully written text, layout, generated images, and more. WordPress.com says the AI website builder can make “beautiful, functional websites in minutes.” However, it can’t yet do the heavy lifting of creating an ecommerce
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-04 20:28:17
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. WordPress.com has launched a new AI-powered site builder in early access that can construct your WordPress webpage, including fully written text, layout, generated images, and more. WordPress.com says the AI website builder can make “beautiful, functional websites in minutes.” However, it can’t yet do the heavy lifting of creating an ecommerce
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-17 20:08:16
There was a saying in the 1980s that if you knew how to use WordPerfect, you were guaranteed a job in any office. WordPerfect was the word processing system for DOS and several other platforms - but in most technical writing circles, it was primarily known as a DOS system. A brief history W. E. Peterson details the rise and fall of WordPerfect in his book Almost Perfect (1994, Prima). Originally written by Alan Ashton for the Data General platform in the late 1970s, the first version of what w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-19 17:45:53
Best practices in cybersecurity would tell you not to use the same password for all of your logins. Having one password you use for your Facebook, your email, your Target rewards program, and your Chase bank account is just a nightmare waiting to happen. If just one of the many websites or apps you have an account for experiences a data breach, then someone nefarious might gain access to not just that account but your entire lively hood of everywhere else you log into is now compromised. You cou
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-04 02:35:27
IronRDP A collection of Rust crates providing an implementation of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol, with a focus on security. Demonstration ironrdp-tauri-client-hackaton-result.mp4 Video Codec Support Supported codecs: Uncompressed raw bitmap Interleaved Run-Length Encoding (RLE) Bitmap Codec RDP 6.0 Bitmap Compression Microsoft RemoteFX (RFX) Examples A full-fledged RDP client based on IronRDP crates suite, and implemented using non-blocking, asynchronous I/O. cargo run --bin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-07 15:12:00
A malware operation dubbed 'DollyWay' has been underway since 2016, compromising over 20,000 WordPress sites globally to redirect users to malicious sites. The campaign has evolved significantly in the past eight years, leveraging advanced evasion, re-infection, and monetization strategies. According to GoDaddy researcher Denis Sinegubko, DollyWay has been functioning as a large-scale scam redirection system in its latest version (v3). However, in the past, it has distributed more harmful payl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-08 23:35:12
ZDNET Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol is a handy method for signing in to and controlling remote PCs and servers, especially for hybrid workers. But RDP is also an inviting target for cybercriminals looking to gain access to an organization's network and other critical resources. That's why using a strong and complex password for remote desktop accounts is vital. Unfortunately, this is an area where many people and companies fall short. Also: Hackers stole this engineer's 1Password databas
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-17 11:00:00
Some of these services don't offer as much customer support as the best services, don't offer as many security features or lack an uptime guarantee. You still might find a service that works for you. GoDaddy GoDaddy offers three managed WordPress hosting plans with pre-installed WordPress. Higher-tier managed WordPress plans also include automated WordPress updates. All GoDaddy WordPress plans use NVMe storage to improve site speed and include an Airo Optimizer to help you identify other ways
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-24 06:32:00
Some of these services don't offer as much customer support as the best services, don't offer as many security features or lack an uptime guarantee. You still might find a service that works for you. GoDaddy GoDaddy offers three managed WordPress hosting plans with pre-installed WordPress. Higher-tier managed WordPress plans also include automated WordPress updates. All GoDaddy WordPress plans use NVMe storage to improve site speed and include an Airo Optimizer to help you identify other ways
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-02 18:50:00
A hot potato: In a recent interview, Matt Mullenweg commented on the future of Automattic. Facing calls for him to step down, he said he would not resign. Mullenweg even doubled down, saying that when he retires, he will find a successor who shares his values and would run the company as he would. Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, has called out WP Engine for benefiting from WordPress's open-source model without contributing enough to the project. WP Engine, built o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-03 20:38:31
Calls for WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg to step down from his leadership role have increased in recent months amid his controversial fight and legal battle with hosting company WP Engine. Mullenweg not only intends to stay, he’s also thinking about how he plans to manage succession planning. He doesn’t want to pass on what he helped build to a “committee,” but rather to another CEO who will continue to act as a steward to the WordPress community. In a recently aired ep
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-10 06:54:00
What just happened? A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed against Automattic, the company behind WordPress, and its founder, Matt Mullenweg, further escalating an ongoing dispute with web hosting provider WP Engine. The lawsuit, filed by WP Engine customer Ryan Keller, accuses Automattic and Mullenweg of deliberately disrupting contracts and abusing their control over the WordPress ecosystem. Keller, who runs Keller Holdings – a company that creates websites for businesses and individu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-10 21:29:59
The company behind WordPress, Automattic Inc., and its founder, Matt Mullenweg, continue to face backlash over a "nuclear war" started with WP Engine (WPE) that allegedly messed with maintenance and security of hundreds of thousands of websites. In a proposed class action lawsuit filed this weekend, a WPE customer, Ryan Keller, accused Automattic and Mullenweg of "deliberately abusing their power and control over the WordPress ecosystem to purposefully, deliberately, and repeatedly disrupt cont
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-14 02:36:44
In late September, Automattic CEO and WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg started a public dispute with the hosting provider WP Engine, calling the company “a cancer to WordPress.” He accused WP Engine of not contributing enough to the WordPress ecosystem and profiting off of trademark confusion. As a result, WP Engine was blocked from accessing WordPress.org’s servers. Automattic has since sent a cease and desist order to WP Engine to stop it from using its trademarks, while WP Engine has follo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-14 18:44:14
The company behind WordPress, Automattic Inc., and its founder, Matt Mullenweg, continue to face backlash over a "nuclear war" started with WP Engine (WPE) that allegedly messed with maintenance and security of hundreds of thousands of websites. In a proposed class action lawsuit filed this weekend, a WPE customer, Ryan Keller, accused Automattic and Mullenweg of "deliberately abusing their power and control over the WordPress ecosystem to purposefully, deliberately, and repeatedly disrupt cont
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-15 20:48:29
Automattic is facing a class action lawsuit over its feud with WP Engine, with a cybersecurity expert accusing CEO Matt Mullenweg of waging “nuclear war” against the hosting company at the expense of hundreds of thousands of its customers. Ryan Keller, who runs Ohio-based cybersecurity business SecureSight, has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of WP Engine customers in the United States. The complaint alleges that Automattic deliberately sabotaged WP Engine’s business by blocking access to cri
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