Over the past couple months I’ve had a customer with on going issues. The biggest single issue was the site was slow to respond in the afternoon. The site is built on WordPress, and this was a nationally known WordPress hosting company. Whenever we asked them about the issue, we got the standard response that it was due to “your code”. However, they could not point to a simple example. We’re talking about the site taking 10-15 seconds to respond…
Security experts are warning about a large botnet attacking WordPress sites using brute force attempts to break passwords. It is important to note that WordPress is not insecure. It is, however, a big target with a massive number of sites installed, many of which were installed by morons who use things like “God123” as their password. Do yourself a favor, protect your WordPress site from brute force attacks – hire a professional to install it or at least to run…
We’ve got another fairly interesting release from WordPress on the way – 3.6. From Mark Jaquith’s post on features: Post Formats: Post Formats now have their own UI, and theme authors have access to templating functions to access the structured data. Twenty Thirteen: We’re shipping this year’s default theme in our first release of the year. Twenty Thirteen is an opinionated, color-rich, blog-centric theme that makes full use of the new Post Formats support. Audio/Video: You can embed audio and video files into…