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Happy Twentieth Birthday, WordPress!

People around the world celebrate the twentieth birthday of WordPress today. WordPress has grown to be the most popular Content Management System. Here are some fascinating statistics about WordPress (source) Unfortunately, some people believe old information about WordPress, thinking it’s buggy and lacks security features. Yes, there have been issues in the past, but by…

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Celebrating Ten Years of Website Solutions

Many of my Facebook friends have taken the “Ten-Year Challenge” where they post a picture of themselves from ten years ago alongside a current picture. Well, I have a different kind of “Ten-Year Challenge” and it works to your organization’s advantage! I have been developing website solutions for Ten Years now. Admittedly, the look of…

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WordPress at 30%

Several sources reported yesterday that WordPress runs on a whopping 30% of the top 10 Million most popular websites on the entire Internet.  Also, WordPress currently powers 60.2% of those websites that run a Contact Management System (CMS). One of the sources notes that my alma mater, UNC-Chapel Hill has recently moved its website to…

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Uh Oh!

WordPress 4.9.3 was released on February 5 and included several bugfixes. The next day, WordPress 4.9.4 was released to fix a "severe bug" in the previous day's bugfix. If your WordPress website was automatically updated to version 4.9.3, you must manually update your website to version 4.9.4, otherwise your website will never automatically update again….

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New Computer Vulnerabilities Affect Almost All Computers

News was released in the past couple of days about two computer vulnerabilities that affects just about all computers (including tablets and smartphones) made in the past twenty years. Yes, you read that correctly! One security website says, “Both of these vulnerabilities are hardware level vulnerabilities that exist because of a flaw in CPU architecture….

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Another Update

A new version of WordPress Core is available (4.4). If you have not already updated, please do so as soon as possible. Many WordPress hosting companies do not automatically update your WordPress Core, Plugin and Theme files. In addition, many hosts do not backup their clients’ files and databases. Before updating your WordPress website, remember to…