At Goldstein Media we do a lot of work for other marketing agencies as well as directly with businesses. In doing this we’ve noticed something that many companies don’t address very often but should — updates. With WordPress especially, since it powers more than a third of the sites online, it is imperative to keep […]
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WordPress 5.5 has been released. With all the all the benefits it adds to the WordPress system, it deprecated a connection to some JQuery that broke some older plugins. A full rundown of the issue can be found here. The WordPress team has released a plugin for the time being to fix this issue and
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There are many things I love about WordPress. Some don’t even have anything to do with the software. WordPress Is A Family WordPress is much more than an opensource CMS platform. It’s a community. Heck, it’s a family. Between WordCamps, the inexpensive and sometimes free conferences on WordPress, to the meetups and the Slack channels,
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Due to the Covid-19 corona virus pandemic, most WordCamps, the conferences held about the WordPress CMS (Content Management System), were cancelled. This weekend, WordCamp San Antonio (Texas), quickly made their WordCamp all virtual! They utilized both Crowdcast (for the speaker rooms) and Zoom for the hallway chats. You know what? It worked great. They even
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I was one of those skeptics when Matt Mullenweg, the co-founder of WordPress announced Gutenberg at WordCamp US a few years ago. It was something new and that scared me, as well as countless others. To be honest it didn’t help that they released it with WordPress 5.0 days before WordCamp US. As time goes
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This is SERIOUS. A critical vulnerability has been found within WordPress’. 10 plugins have errors that allow hackers to create a backdoor in affected sites to make admin accounts which enables them to do malicious actions on the site. I am happy to report that none of our clients are using the effected plugins, but
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Wix, Squarespace, Weebly, even WordPress.com. The list goes on and on. The democratization of Web design is upon us… or so these companies want us to think. Disclosure Time Now before I get started I feel the need to disclose that I run a digital agency that builds websites with WordPress (the self-hosted, free, open
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There is something I have to admit. When I first heard of Gutenberg, the new editor for WordPress, I was excited. I love new things and testing them out. But when I downloaded it to say I was nonplussed is an understatement. It was buggy and nothing quite worked. Enter WordPress 5.0 and the public,
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WordPress 5.0 is out in the wild now — as of December 6th. It’s a definite departure from the previous versions. The biggest is the new editor, pre-5.0 called Gutenberg. In addition to many nifty under-the-hood improvements, the new editor is the biggest change. We’ve made some big upgrades to the editor. Our new block-based
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WordCamp Philly 2018 takes place this weekend at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. WordCamp Philly is the premiere WordPress-related technical conference in Philadelphia. The two-day event at the University of the Sciences is full of learning and networking opportunities. The first day, Saturday is the main conference full of useful talks and great networking. Sunday is Contributor Day,
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