Wordpress


Platonic Ionic – WordPress REST API working nicely with Ionic

The Belfast Ionic meetup held on the 1st of June at farset Labs was a two part event with Rob of  Tepee (@Rabamus) giving a deeper dive into the native device integration in Ionic first and secondly Conor Woods (@productiveprog) revisiting a topic  of WordPress Rest API and Ionic integration. Rob showed how the accelerometer […]


10 Years – where did they go ?

I realised that today is the 10th anniversary of starting this blog. Scary really. I started off with simple adhoc technical articles and then for a year published a new article every working day !! WordPress has facilitated the way I blog throughout this time and without its capabilities I would probably not have managed […]


WordPress update to 4.3.1

WordPress 4.3.1 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and you are strongly encouraged update your sites immediately. This release addresses three issues, including two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a potential privilege escalation. WordPress 4.3.1 also fixes twenty-six bugs. For more information, see the release notes or consult the list of changes.


WordPress 4.2.4 arrives

WordPress 4.2.4 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and  you are encouraged to update your sites immediately. This release addresses six issues, including three cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a potential SQL injection that could be used to compromise a site. It also includes a fix for a potential timing side-channel attack […]


WordPress 4.2.2 appears

A new release of WordPress is available as WordPress 4.2.2 and according to the developers it fixes a cross-site scripting vulnerability contained in an HTML file shipped with recent Genericons packages included in the Twenty Fifteen theme as well as a number of popular plugins by removing the file. Auto-updates and manual updates will remove […]


WordPress 4.2.1 security release – go get it !!

A recent update has been released for WordPress regarding a cross-scripting vulnerability. The details are here but as always get your site updated and protected as soon as permits. There have been a number of recent updates and its worth considering the automated updates options than was recently introduced – see here which basically says […]