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In the next couple of days, the team will be making its way to Athens, Greece, where we will be attending WordCamp Europe 2023. As one of the event’s sponsors, we will have a booth set up – and we have prepared some great things that you’ll surely want to know all about.

WCEU 2023 also marks an important milestone in WP White Security’s history with the unveiling of our brand-new, fresh rebranding; Melapress!

Following the success of last year’s survey, we are happy to announce that this year’s WordPress Security Survey is now live. The survey aims to gain a clearer picture of the state of WordPress security in 2023 as well as identify trends from last year’s survey. Just like we did with previous surveys, we will be publishing the results directly on our blog.

Over the past few months, the team at WP White Security has been busy with a rebranding project. Customers that have been keeping up to date with our newsletters and blog posts will surely be aware that this rebranding has been in the works for some time. As we get closer to finalizing the rebrand and switching over, we wanted to let you know what is going on and what to expect.

Quality and dependability are two tenets on which all of our plugins are built. We work to achieve this day in day out through a rigorous development process that also involves considerable testing by our internal team. This enables us to ensure we only release any new update or plugin once we are confident that it’s solid and will perform well.

Exactly a year ago, I sat at this very same keyboard to write an article that’s not too different from this one. While a lot has happened since then, the year has all but flown past. I am told that this is due to my getting older – the older you get, the smaller of a percentage a year is of your lived life; hence it seems like less time has passed.

In last year’s recap (covering 2021), we were starting to free ourselves from the clutches of the pandemic. Today, we are better equipped to deal with its ramifications, but 2022 brought its own set of challenges and wins.

This Black Friday, we are offering an amazing 50% discount on all new plugin subscriptions. This is the perfect opportunity to shore up your WordPress security and administration (at a hefty discount) as we head into a busy festive season.

Following the success of our WordPress security survey, we are launching another survey – this time addressing WordPress administration. The purpose of this survey is to get an understanding of how our customers and readers undertake basic WordPress administration tasks.

WordPress auto-updates can be quite a divisive topic. When enabled, auto-updates can ensure that you get the latest updates as soon as they become available. This can help you mitigate certain risks, such as security holes, as fast as possible. Yet, untested updates can break your website – so what’s the deal? Should auto-updates be enabled or disabled? The answer is not so simple.

On the 24th of May, 2022, Cisco was made aware by its security teams that there had been a breach. The attacker had managed to gain access, escalate their privileges, install remote access and hacking software, and take steps to maintain access to the systems. They managed to do all of this one step at a time. As we shall see, this should have been easily preventable.

We are launching our very first WordPress security survey. The aim of this survey is to understand how WordPress administrators and owners view and manage basic security tasks on their WordPress websites. While we have carried out surveys in the past, this survey is perhaps more ambitious than what we have previously done.

The WP White Security team went to WCEU 2022 and it was a blast! Read here for a recap of the event and see what we got up to.

2021 was touted as the year in which everything returns back to normality. Alas, this was not to be, as the developments we were hoping for didn’t fully materialize. 2021, however, was a year of hope in which human ingenuity triumphed over tragedy.

When the original developer of the plugin formerly known as Advanced noCaptcha & invisible Captcha (v2 & v3) developed the plugin, he included integration with third-party plugins such as Contact Form 7 and WooCommerce as a premium feature. This could be clearly seen in the Premium Edition advert located on the right side of the plugin page.

When we first came across the opportunity to acquire Advanced noCaptcha & invisible Captcha (v2 & v3) last year, we quickly understood this plugin’s potential to elevate the CAPTCHA game for WordPress administrators and website owners. While we felt that the plugin needed some TLC that we were more than happy to put in, we also understood that it had the basics right.

Since its inception, WP 2FA has evolved to become one of the top WordPress 2FA plugins – thanks to the hard work of the team and our customers who have shown faith in us and our products and provided us with invaluable feedback.

On the 6th of September 2021, as-of-yet unknown actors breached and gained access to data of 1,200,000 GoDaddy customers. GoDaddy noticed the breach on November the 17th, some 36 days later. The breach was reported to the SEC some five days later and 41 days after the fact.

Everything must evolve, or it risks being relegated to the history books. At WP White Security, we are firm believers in the philosophy of kaizen and always seek to develop our plugins for the better.

We are happy to announce our first plugin acquisition as we pursue our mission to build value-driven WordPress security and admin plugins. This new acquisition will undoubtedly help us deliver more value to our customers.

One takeaway we can be proud of as a community is how most of us had to be even more creative than usual to get through 2020… With long hours, a lot of stress & uncertainty within our businesses. To have a better 2021 for you and your agency, keep learning and investing in yourself to ensure any situation that’s thrown your way can be dealt with, swiftly and with much less stress.

2020 has been a challenging year for many. However, we have been very lucky and even though it was challenging, we’ve made the best out of it, and we turned it into a big one!

WordPress plugins are awesome and if you want your site to have a specific function, or add additional functionality, the chances are there is a plugin out there for it. If you’d like to learn more about what WordPress plugins are, refer to our WordPress plugins introduction.

If you are new to WordPress, you might be wondering what are WordPress plugins and what’s their purpose. It’s a reasonably common question to ask because plugins are an important part of the WordPress ecosystem. They are essential if you want to build a website with WordPress.

WordPress vulnerabilities statistics show that the main source of WordPress vulnerabilities are in WordPress plugins. These vulnerabilities statistics also show how important it is to always run the latest version of WordPress core, plugins and themes.

The WordPress Admin Area can be packed with lots of popups, reminders, and advertisements. Even though some of these notices might not be that useful, there are many other admin notices that are helpful and need your attention. It’s easy to imagine that all WordPress users enjoy the same clean, well-organized Admin experience. We all want a world where the Admin Area is freely available for all users.

A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been discovered in a number of WordPress plugins and today all of them have released updates to address this issue. Read this article for more details.

WP White Security will be at the first large-scale European WordPress WordCamp, which will be held between the 5th and the 7th of October 2013, in Leiden, Holland. If you will be at the WordCamp, or around Leiden, come and speak to us.

A source code analysis of several WordPress plugins shows that more than 20% of the 50 most popular WordPress plugins are vulnerable to common web attacks. In this blog post we present you with the facts and statistics of this one of a kind study and give recommendations to help WordPress owners choose secure plugins and to help WordPress plugins developers develop more secure plugins.