by Sarah Gooding | May 23, 2019 | Elementor, free wordpress themes, News, Plugins, Themes, Wordpress Resources
Elementor launched its Hello theme on WordPress.org this week. After just a few days in the directory, the theme already has more than 10,000 active installations. It is essentially a blank starter theme that offers 100% compatibility with Elementor. Page builders...
by Sarah Gooding | Apr 10, 2019 | coblocks, godaddy, gutenberg, News, Plugins, ThemeBeans, Themes, Wordpress Resources
GoDaddy has acquired CoBlocks, ThemeBeans, Block Gallery and Block Unit Tests, one of the leading Gutenberg product lines in the WordPress ecosystem. Founder Rich Tabor is joining GoDaddy as Senior Product Manager of WordPress Experience and will lead a team dedicated...
by Raelene Morey | Apr 9, 2019 | images, Plugins, Wordpress Resources
Sites with a ton of images can take forever to load. For every image, that’s another HTTP request, and more time your users have to wait in frustration while pages load slowly. So what’s the solution? Lazy loading. It can significantly speed up image-heavy...
by Sarah Gooding | Apr 4, 2019 | News, pipdig, Plugins, security, Themes, Wordpress Resources
Over the weekend, Pipdig, a small commercial theme company, has been at the center of a scandal after multiple reports exposed a litany of unethical code additions to its Pipdig Power Pack (P3) plugin. On Friday, March 29, Wordfence threat analyst Mikey Veenstra...
by Sarah Gooding | Mar 2, 2019 | News, Plugins, security, Wordpress Resources
Freemius, a monetization, analytics, and marketing library for WordPress plugin and theme developers, patched an authenticated option update vulnerability in its wordpress-sdk four days ago. The library is included with many popular plugins, such as NextGEN Gallery...
by Sarah Gooding | Feb 21, 2019 | bootstrap, News, Plugins, security, Wordpress Resources
Bootstrap has released versions 4.3.1 and 3.4.1 to patch an XSS vulnerability (CVE-2019-8331) that was reported to the Bootstrap Drupal project by a developer and then responsibly disclosed to the Bootstrap development team. The vulnerability specifically affects...
