ZDNet

WordPress to add auto-update feature for themes and plugins

The WordPress developer team is working on adding an auto-update mechanism to themes and plugins, a common source of website hacks, primarily because site owners usually install themes and plugins, ...
Searchenginejournal.com

WordPress Proposes Plan for 61% of WP Sites Using Outdated PHP

PHP is the underlying scripting language that WordPress runs on. The most current version is PHP 7.3.7. PHP is continually updated to make it more efficient and to patch security issues. Except ...
ZDNet

WordPress's broken automatic update function

Twenty-nine percent of all websites use WordPress. With 60 percent of the content management system (CMS) market, WordPress outdistances all other CMSs, So, when there's trouble with WordPress ...
SlashGear

WordPress Updates To Version 3.0.2 - Do It!

For everyone in the world who uses WordPress to blog their favorite technological news and gadgets, today you'll see a little update in your Dashboard by the name of 3.0.2. This update is what they ...
Bleeping Computer

WordPress Update Process Puts a Quarter of All Sites on the Internet at Risk

Scott Arciszewski, Chief Development Officer at Paragon Initiative Enterprises, is warning about a series of security issues that affect the update mechanism used by the WordPress CMS. The developer ...