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Google Partners With WordPress

Google has started partnering with WordPress. This gives all of us WordPress site owners a little lift in Google juice. Read the Article.

Why?

  • WordPress now represents 59% of all content management software websites. That’s an estimated 1/3 of ALL websites.
  • Google is focused on speed! They have made upload speed a priority and an algorithm factor. WordPress sites are speed friendly. You do have to be careful about the size of photos, PDFs or other uploads to your site. But the basic WordPress structure is speed-friendly. (If you’re concerned about the upload time for your site, let’s take a look and see what we can do. We have tools to shrink photo sizes, delete comments, improve the site.)
  • Google is prioritizing mobile-friendly sites because so many searches are now done from mobile devices. WordPress and WordPress themes are responsive aka mobile-friendly. (If you have an old WP site, let’s make sure it’s responsive. This is urgent!)

If you aren’t using a WordPress site, let’s talk about your options. Every site needs to take advantage of every opportunity to be Google-friendly.

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New version of WordPress

On Dec. 6th, WordPress released a new version with a new editor.  We were aware of the coming change. One of my programmers has been participating in the beta test team.

The new release is supposed to make the web experience better for your visitors and speed up load times. So far we are not impressed!!  The upgrade has caused more problems than anticipated. Previous upgrades may have conflicted with a plug-in for a little glitch.  This update has caused major issues on a couple of sites. On one of my sites, every blog was pointing to the same blog post! On another site, the payment processing glitched.  I encourage each of you to carefully look at your pages and test all of your forms.  (It’s good to review your site 2-3 times a year any way!)

In addition, WordPress published a new editor.  Again, we are not impressed! The new editor does not seem to be as versatile as the previous one. It is definitely not “What you see is what you get” which makes pages and blogs easier to create. Fortunately, we are able to return/switch to the previous editor. 

Please email if you have questions.

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Interesting Word Press Statistics!

WordPress.com Employs Only 229 People

It’s hard to believe but true. The site that receives 130% the unique visits of Amazon employs only 229 people. To keep that in perspective, Amazon.com employs 88,400 people to run their business, 38,603% more than WordPress.com.

That is probably one of the reasons why they’re always looking for new developers to join their team.

6 New WordPress.com Posts Every Second

That’s right. Every second, close to 6 (the actual figure is 5.7) new posts are published on WordPress.com blogs. That averages out to 342 posts per minute. Just above 20,000 per day. And a grand total of 7.49 million annually.

Not only is WordPress.org the world’s most popular self-hosted CMS solution, but the free version is also second in popularity on the list of free blogging platforms, with Google’s own Blogger topping it.

There’s a neat map view on the WordPress.com site that shows you the location of a blogger as he publishes a post in real-time. Check it out.

Statistics found on https://managewp.com/blog/14-surprising-statistics-about-wordpress-usage

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Warning of Ransomware attack

Just received this notice from the software manufacturer that I use to protect my WordPress websites.  Please read and take action!  “Ransomware” is a hack that takes control of your computer and demands a ransom to release it.  Do not fall for this trick!

A massive global ransomware attack on machines running the Windows operating system is underway and spreading quickly. We have published a public service announcement that gives you a high level overview of the attack along with advice on how to protect yourself.

You can find the full post on our blog….

Regards,
Mark Maunder
Wordfence Founder & CEO

 

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WordFence Discovered HUGE Security Hole In WordPress

Please see the email below from WordFence about the code error they found in WordPress and how they got the problem fixed.

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Your Computer Lady is offering you a Maintenance Program which includes installation of WordFence on your WordPress site. WordFence is part of our monitoring software.

In addition, we will turn off the automatic updates and do manual updates with full site backups for your protection. If a WordPress update conflicts with a plug-in version (or a plug-in update conflicts with the WordPress version), the site can be locked up and possibly taken offline. We avoid this with manual updates. And before every update we do a full site backup so that we can restore the site in case of conflict.

I urge you to begin the Maintenance program today. Call me!

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