Think website hackers and data theft is a only concern for governments and large corporations? Think again. A recent Forbes article online reported that 40 percent of cyber attacks are against companies with fewer than 500 employees. Yet many small and medium-size businesses are not taking adequate security measures to protect their websites.
It is always wise to have systems in place for off-site file backup and malware protection.
WordPress 3.5.1 is now available. Version 3.5.1 is the first maintenance release of 3.5, fixing 37 bugs. It is also a security release for all previous WordPress versions. For a full list of changes, consult the list of tickets and the changelog, which include:
Additionally, a bug affecting Windows servers running IIS can prevent updating from 3.5 to 3.5.1. If you receive the error “Destination directory for file streaming does not exist or is not writable,” you will need to follow the steps outlined on the Codex.
WordPress 3.5.1 also addresses the following security issues:
Download 3.5.1 or visit Dashboard → Updates in your site admin to update now.
If you are running a WordPress website and you can’t remember the last time you updated WordPress and your installed plugins, then this is for you!
Updating WordPress and plugins regularly ensures that your website is running with the latest features and most importantly has all of the latest security patches applied. Just like with your computer updates, your website system needs to be updated regularly too to minimize the threat of a hacker exploiting your site.
To make sure you are staying on top of your WordPress updates, we are releasing a new monthly service where we will update your WordPress install and all your plugins at least once a month for $15 a month.
If you are interested, contact us here or call us at 919-374-3014.
The folks at WordPress released the 3.5 update and we recommend upgrading. It provides several aesthetic updates, support for Retina displays and reworks the image management area to make it more user friendly. For a full writeup on the update, click here.
If you run a WordPress website and you wish to be able to collect information from your clients, members or customers, then you will benefit greatly from the Gravity Forms plugin. Here at Page Progressive we believe, as do many others, that Gravity Forms is the best data collecting option out there for WordPress if not THE WORLD 😉
Not familiar with Gravity Forms? Allow us to explain. Gravity Forms is a full feature contact form that allows people to send you information and even publish content directly to your website if you set it up to do so. Used in its simplest manner, Gravity Forms lets you create basic contact or a support forms that collects information such as name, e-mail, phone number, address, website and an assortment of other information. You even have the option to set up notifications based on conditional rules, create pre-populating fields and, because it has captcha as an option, you can even prevent spam!
By now, you are well aware of Facebook and its plethora of cohorts like Twitter, Google and other social media sites. And, if you are an avid user of Facebook, you also know that Facebook is always changing or adding features-some of these are loved, and others, maybe not so much. 😉 But recently Facebook has released a plugin that, as a business owner you will want to take advantage of – the Facebook Plugin for WordPress.
Malicious hackers-many might say they are the bane of the Internet! After all, there are few things more frustrating than dealing with spam, objectionable content and in some extreme cases, complete overhauls of websites due to your website getting hacked. Hackers can cost time and money-neither of which most of us want to spend on fixing a hacked website! But thankfully, we don’t have to be easy prey to those eager to inflict our sites with malware. There a variety of actions we can take to protect our websites and other online accounts from hackers.
However, before we delve into how to be protected, first, let’s look at the types of malware there are to be cognizant of. After all, it is hard to fight something you don’t know anything about.
WordPress 3.4 has been released! We recommend that everyone running WordPress to upgrade as it will ensure a more secure and faster running site, plus some other neat additions. According to The WordPress website, “This release includes significant improvements to theme customization, custom headers, Twitter embeds (see example of one below), and image captions.” Click here for more details!
WordPress 3.4 “Green” http://t.co/1mSdDiZw
— Daniel Trimpey (@DanielTrimpey) June 14, 2012