The popular Jetpack WordPress plugin was updated this week in order to patch a critical stored cross-site scripting vulnerability. After a few critical bugs were recently discovered and patched in the ...

Automattic has pre-released a plugin designed to tackle the hard work of achieving better Core Web Vitals scores. The plugin is currently in testing phase and not meant to be used on live production ...

Automattic announced a modular approach to the all-in-one Jetpack that allows users to choose only the features they need. Automattic is the for-profit side of WordPress. Although they are for-profit ...

Admins and owners of WordPress websites are urged to immediately apply the Jetpack 7.9.1 critical security update to prevent potential attacks that could abuse a ...

WordPress is shaking things up. Before today, WordPress users had to choose between the dot-com and the dot-org options. The dot-com option is the easy-to-use, web-scale centralized version with ...

Of the perennial ProfHacker favorites, WordPress is probably neck and neck with Zotero as our most written about topic. From course blogs to department websites to ProfHacker itself, we like WordPress ...

Hackers have come up with a never-before-seen method of installing backdoored plugins on websites running the open-source WordPress CMS, and this new technique relies on using weakly protected ...

The Jetpack plugin for WordPress has been upgraded to version 1.2, bringing Google+ and LinkedIn support to its sharing UI and improved upgrade stability. Jetpack is a plugin that enables users of ...

The developers behind Jetpack, one of WordPress’ most popular plugins, have patched a serious flaw introduced in 2012 that would enable an attacker bypass access controls and publish posts to any ...

Even though in the past, many consultants (including myself) used to recommend Jetpack for WordPress, there is a very ...