Navigating the Coming Changes in WordPress in 2024
- Crucial WordPress updates are planned for next year, including the phasing out PHP 5, the rise of headless WordPress, the growth of WooCommerce’s, and the integration of AI tools.
- Selecting the right tools and partners that are adapting to these changes is vital for agencies seeking to maintain their competitive edge.
- Curious about how these WordPress changes will reshape the future web development landscape?
- https://pagely.com/blog/the-future-of-wordpress-exciting-trends-and-updates-to-look-forward-to-in-2024/
WP Undead: How “Zombie” Plugins and Developers Put 1.6M Websites at Risk
- Concern is rising over unreachable WordPress plugin developers causing enormous backlog, slow processing, and increasing unpatched vulnerabilities.
- Patchstack has observed a significant risk within the WordPress community, with hundreds of unpatched vulnerabilities hosted in the WordPress.org plugins and themes repositories.
- How can you protect your agency and clients? Can you help resolve the danger looming in the repository?
- https://patchstack.com/articles/the-wordpress-zombie-plugins-pandemic-affects-1-6-million-websites/
Guarding Your WooCommerce Store Against Card Testing Attacks
- Card testing attacks are an active and growing form of online fraud where thieves of stolen card numbers attempt to validate them using the WooCommerce checkout process.
- The aftermath of such attacks can be dire, including lost inventory, accumulation of transaction fees, increased account decline rates, or even store suspensions and closures.
- How can you improve your security against WooCommerce card testing attacks?
- https://www.commercegurus.com/woocommerce-card-testing-attacks/
Worth a Look…
Human Made to host “AI: The Next Chapter” September 14, 2023 – This free events will highlight the latest real-world developments in AI, WordPress, and content publishing.
Review Signal’s 2023 WordPress (and WooCommerce) Hosting Performance Benchmark results.
Search Engine Journal asked 6 AI chatbots to create a WordPress plugin that adds post word count to an admin column. See the results:
