WordPress and Annotum for Education, Science,Journal Publishing

Millions of websites running WordPress are being strongly urged to update to the latest version of the popular content management system as soon as possible, after a serious security vulnerability was uncovered.

Von wegen Sicherheit: Unter dem Deckmantel eines legitimen WordPress-Plugin richtet X-WP-SPAM-SHIELD-PRO eine Backdoor auf Webseiten ein.

Wer auf seiner WordPress-Webseite das Plugin X-WP-SPAM-SHIELD-PRO installiert hat, sollte dieses schleunigst deinstallieren: Das Fake-Sicherheits-Plugin ist Malware und richtet unter anderem einen Fernzugriff für die Drahtzieher des Zusatzmoduls ein, warnen Sicherheitsforscher von Sucuri.

Die Betrüger missbrauchen dabei den Namen des legitimen Sicherheits-Plugins WP-SpamShield Anti-Spam, welches Spam von WordPress-Seiten fernhalten soll. X-WP-SPAM-SHIELD-PRO ist nicht im offiziellen Plugin-Bereich von WordPress zu finden. Es stammt aus einer von den Sicherheitsforschern nicht näher beschriebenen Quelle. Aus Sicherheitsgründen ist es ratsam, nur Plugins aus der offiziellen Quelle zu installieren.

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We love podcasts: they’re like the blogging version of radio, a medium anyone can jump into and use to share their story. They introduce us to new voices and give us glimpses into new perspectives… and they pair perfectly with blogs and websites, where they can add more texture and interest to what you’re already publishing.

What Can a Podcast Add to My Site?

Use a RadioPublic embed to share and promote your own podcast !  But even if you’ve never even listened to a podcast before, there are ways you can use them:

Round up your favorites: everybody loves a good top-ten list, especially when includes a few surprises. Recommend some sports shows that break the mold (like 30 for 30 and The Rematch), podcasts about art (try A Piece of Work or The Lonely Palette), or amazing audio fiction. By embedding the shows right into your post, you make it easy for readers to sample, listen, and add the shows to their own listening list.

Add a relevant episode to a post to give readers more to chew on. Writing about architecture? There’s probably a 99% Invisible episode that you could tie in. Pop culture? Check out Still Processing.

Not everything has to be heavy: maybe your readers could just use a few minutes of cats purring — there’s a podcast for that, too!
With over 250,000 podcasts out there, there’s probably a show on whatever you’ve writing about.

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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/blogs-tips-and-tricks/

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2016/06/06/blogging-is-it-difficult-i-guess-not-a-all-follow-my-advice/

https://globaleducationandsocialmedia.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/put-your-title-in-here/

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Cities are collections of neighborhoods — and neighborhoods are powered by small business. From coffee shop owners to fitness instructors, therapists to thrift stores, it’s the people we see in the storefronts next door who build and reinforce the unique character of our cities.

At WordPress.com, we want to support local businesses as they grow their own communities (and their revenue!) on the open web. That’s why we’ve teamed up with Rebrand Cities, a project founded by Hajj Flemings to bring small businesses online, in pursuit of an audacious goal: 10,000 new websites for 10,000 small businesses and to tell their stories.

Eighty-one percent of people research a business online before making a purchase — but of the 28 million small businesses that drive the American economy, 46 percent still operate without a website. We want to change that.

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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/blogs-tips-and-tricks/

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2016/06/06/blogging-is-it-difficult-i-guess-not-a-all-follow-my-advice/

https://globaleducationandsocialmedia.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/put-your-title-in-here/

Domains are being compromised through a vulnerability in the WordPress REST API.

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With the huge number of sites running WordPress, and the frequency with which attackers exploit vulnerabilities on the platform to launch malicious attacks, it makes sense for self-hosting bloggers to update their systems as soon as possible.

Security vulnerabilities are frequently uncovered in third-party WordPress plugins, but the above fix addresses bugs in the main WordPress content management system itself. Meaning that just about any site running WordPress could be at risk.

Fortunately, updating is pretty easy. Go to your WordPress admin panel and choose Dashboard > Updates.

Of course, it's always good practice to test a new version of the software on a non-live version of your site first (often known as a staging site) - just in case.

Since WordPress 3.7 was released in October 2013, the software has come with the option of automatic security updates - hopefully ensuring that many site admins won't have to worry so much about whether they have kept their software updated or not.

But, of course, there will always be those who don't have automatic updates enabled and may miss the news.

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Outdated versions of three popular WordPress plugins suffer from a "critical" zero-day vulnerability that enables an attacker to take over a website.

The bug is a PHP object injection flaw that affects the following plugins: Appointments (versions prior to 2.2.2), Flickr Gallery (versions prior to 1.5.3), and RegistrationMagic-Custom Registration Forms (versions prior to 3.7.9.3).

Together, those plugins have a combined user base of over 21,000 WordPress customers. All three have already received a fix for the security issue, which is rated "Critical" with a CVSS rating of 9.8.

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WordPress 4.8.2 is out, featuring nine security fixes website owners will want to apply, well, now.

All told, there have been six updates this year featuring security fixes, including January’s silent patch for a nasty zero day, this being the first since May’s v4.7.5.

The maintenance side of the update features six other software updates but focussing on the bit that bothers Naked Security readers most, security, we see five Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) flaws (a perennially popular attack vector that refuses to die), two path or directory traversal issues, and one covering an open redirect.

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Keeping up with social media can feel like a full-time job these days — and for many it is. Posting your content on Twitter and Facebook during specific hours, and keeping things evenly spaced out, means that you need to tend to your profiles pretty often.

We wanted to make it easier for WordPress.com users to create great content on their websites — and share it across different social media networks.

The new Advanced Social Media feature for Business and Premium plan users (and for Jetpack Professional and Premium users) lets you schedule specific times that your content will be automatically shared on places like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. You can also preview your social updates before sending them, so you know exactly how it will look when it goes out.

With Advanced Social Media, you can:

Resurface older “evergreen” posts to share them to your newer followers.

Plan your social media posts in bulk to save time.
Craft messages specifically to fit the profile or network where you are posting.

Preview upcoming tweets, Facebook posts, or LinkedIn updates.
See the previous shares of the post.

You can access all of these features by selecting the “Share” button under a post in your posts list.

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We are happy to announce WordPress.com for Google Docs, a new add-on that lets you write, edit, and collaborate in Google Docs, then save it as a blog post on any WordPress.com or Jetpack-connected WordPress site. Your images and most formatting will carry over too. No more copy-and-paste headaches!

Save your Google Docs drafts as WordPress blog posts in seconds.

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Internationalization is very important to us, and we’re striving to make sites across WordPress.com accessible to all, such as your international followers and multilingual readers.

Today, we’re thrilled to introduce the Google Translate Widget, which allows you and your site visitors to instantly translate your content into 103 languages currently supported by Google Translate.

[Gust MEES] Check out my Blog to give it a test:

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Discover how WordPress.com can help you share your beautiful snaps -- complete with video tutorials!

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