WordPress plugins are helpful. But they can also slow a site down, invite hackers and even cause a Google penalty. These are my top five considerations when choosing a WordPress plugin. The plugin is ...

Security researchers at Wordfence reported a vulnerability in the Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall plugin for WordPress. As the name suggests, this plugin allows site owners to scan for ...

A widespread exploitation campaign is targeting WordPress websites with GutenKit and Hunk Companion plugins vulnerable to ...

Threat actors are attempting to exploit three critical CVEs from 2024 impacting two popular WordPress plugins, according to Wordfence. The security vendor claimed that the bugs affect the GutenKit and ...

Not to put too fine a point on it but I'm more than a little freaked out. As an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to write a plugin that could save my wife some time with managing her website. I wrote a ...

The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall plugin for WordPress, installed on over 100,000 sites, has a vulnerability ...

Yoast WordPress SEO plugin released an update but it soon became apparent that something went horribly wrong for some users. It appears that the problem caused fatal errors. Negatively affected ...

Researchers said on Friday that they found a malicious backdoor in a WordPress plugin that gave attackers full control of websites that used the package, which is marketed to schools. Jetpack said it ...