WordPress weekly – week 34

03/09/2022 435 words 2 min. reading time

WordPress vulnerabilities

Vulnerable plugins and themes are the most common reason WordPress websites get hacked. The weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report, powered by WPScan en presented by Ithemes, covers recent WordPress plugins, themes, and core vulnerabilities and guides what to do if you use a vulnerable plugin or theme on your website.

WordPress 6.0.2 is now available! This security and maintenance release features 12 bug fixes for Core, five bug fixes for the Block Editor, and three security fixes. Because this is a security release, we recommend that you update your sites immediately.

Meet Breakdance

Breakdance is a modern visual website builder for WordPress.

Breakdance is easy to use for anyone familiar with basic web design principles and concepts. If you have used a visual composer, Elementor, or similar tool before, you will feel at home using Breakdance.

Despite its power, it does not have a difficult learning curve like some other similar software products.

Breakdance includes 120 builder elements that cater to every imaginable use case.
These include simple elements like sections, columns, headings, rich text, images, icons, and videos and more complex features like pricing tables, icon/image boxes, fancy lists, image galleries, sliders, and more.

They are pricing us currently at 149 $ per year.

Breakdance page builder demo video

To www or not to www, that’s the question.

The www and non-www versions of your website’s domain can create duplicate locations for your site, negatively impacting your site’s SEO and ranking in search engine results pages (SERPs). This article on Elegant Themes explores the pros and cons of using www vs. non-www in your website’s URL.

In short, be sure that only one of the two (www or non-www) is active and that they point to just one URL. If you use www, then the non-www should redirect (301 redirect) to the www and vice versa.

The Jetpack team now manages WP Super Cache.

One of WordPress’s oldest and most widely used static caching plugins is being transferred to Jetpack’s performance team. The Jetpack team plans to modernize the plugin and invest in its future development.

Rabbitloader: swiss army knife for caching your WordPress website

The plugins you installed to improve website speed have actually had the opposite effect. One solution can replace all those plugins, resulting in a faster website that ranks higher on search engine results pages.

RabbitLoader is a WordPress plugin that improves website performance by reducing load times through content minification, lazy loading, and CDN caching. This plugin is easy to use and does not require any coding skills or technical expertise, making it an excellent choice for anyone looking to improve their PageSpeed Insights score. There is a free version and paid services version.

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