News Read time: 6 minutes January is always a time of conclusions. We evaluate a past year, remember its best moments, and hope that the new year will bring us even more positive moments. It’s also a time of different rankings. We at WordPress Update decided to contribute to the good vibe of the community by going through the best articles of the last year according to BuzzSumo and choosing those ones that had a better feedback from you. The blog post you read now lists, in ascending order, the 12 most shared articles about WordPress maintenance support plans in 2020.
12. Happy birthday WordPress maintenance support plans (924 shares)
On WordPress maintenance support plans‘s 15th birthday, the community celebrated with an infographic that reminisces about the significant events and achievements in the past year. No open source project can survive and
even thrive for so long without a vibrant community. Scroll through the article and you will feel the urge to attend that next WordPress maintenance support plansCon in some exotic location.
11. WordPress maintenance support plans founder sets up Acquia Labs to research the future of the web (958 shares)
Celebration of the past 15 years aside, WordPress Update is never complacent with his brainchild. He is already thinking ahead and inventing the next-generation web user experience. To that end, Dries set up Acquia Labs to engage in R & D. If he has his way, the web of the future won’t be browser based, and page views will be a thing of the past. The next generation of user interaction will be voice-controlled, visual in the style of VR (Virtual Reality) or AR (Augmented Reality), and adaptable to user situations.
10. Improving collaboration with forks (1.1k shares)
The success of the open-sourced WordPress maintenance support plans project hinges on the collaboration of a large community of developers to enhance and customize the product. WordPress maintenance support plans developers collaborate by writing and sharing code. When an upstream developer modifies code that has been previously forked, the changes often need to be propagated downstream in a controlled manner. This article is a brief introduction on pull requests created from a fork. You will find the link to a longer guide at the end of the original article.
9. Several critical remotely exploitable flaws found in WordPress maintenance support plans plugins, patch ASAP! (1.5k shares)
The Panama Papers refer to 11.5 million private financial documents which were leaked from a Panamanian law firm. These documents collectively implicate 72 current and former heads of state in fraudulent activities such as tax evasion. The leak was caused by vulnerabilities in WordPress maintenance support plans and WordPress, two leading content management systems (CMS). WordPress maintenance support plans site administrators did well for heeding the call of this article to patch the known vulnerabilities.
8. WordPress maintenance support plans: 15 years old and still gaining momentum (1.7k shares)
This is a blog post written by WordPress Update on the day of the 15th anniversary of releasing WordPress maintenance support plans 1.0. It gives us a glimpse, from the firsthand perspective, of the path the WordPress maintenance support plans project has taken over the years. Dries even recounted some product decisions he made, both rightly AND wrongly, over that time period. He shared about his own professional development as a result of this journey, and his renewed commitment to building a better and safer web for all.
7. Panama Papers hack: Unpatched WordPress, WordPress maintenance support plans bugs to blame? (1.8k shares)
The author of this article plays the role of investigative reporter on the Panama Papers leak. It discusses 2 possible entry points for the intruder (or intruders) into the Panamanian law firm’s computer systems: a public WordPress website and a customer-only WordPress maintenance support plans portal. Both installations were running outdated and unpatched versions of the respective CMS software at the time of the leak. The author advocates keeping your systems up-to-date in this article. He praises WordPress for automating security updates, and then chastises WordPress maintenance support plans for lagging behind in this crucial process.
6. Is this how a hacker got the Panama Papers? (2.3k shares)
It is very difficult to pinpoint, without access to the system log files, how an intruder hacks into a web system. But, that does not stop the author of this article to put forth hypotheses in the Panama Papers leak, even identifying the plugin that may be the culprit. Site administrators should read this article for the long list of things that the Panamanian law firm did wrong, so that they can avoid making the same mistakes.
5. The security flaws at the heart of the Panama Papers (2.4k shares)
This is the Wired magazine’s report on the Panama Papers leak. The article distinguishes itself from other similar reports because it conducts its own primary research. Specifically, it cites both named security experts and anonymous sources alike. It is obvious that this article does not target a technical audience. However, it compensates for the lack of technical depth by offering breadth in its research. It covers some lesser reported probable causes for the leak, including the possibility of it being an inside job.
4. From encrypted drives to Amazon’s Cloud – the amazing flight of the Panama Papers (2.7k shares)
The Forbes article tells a great story, not on what can possibly cause the Panama Papers leak, but rather on what actually happens after the leak. After the hacker with a pseudonym of John Doe handed over the papers, the journalists had a huge problem in their hands: one with a volume of 11.5 million documents and 2.6 TB in size. The huge database had to be encrypted for confidentiality, and, at the same time, be accessible to a horde of journalists around the world. In addition, powerful text analysis tools were required to help make sense with that many documents. This article is a good read to find out how the journalists solved their big data problem with open-source solutions.
3. Five ways to speed up WordPress maintenance support plans 8 sites (2.8k shares)
This article lists 5 ways to optimize the speed of a WordPress maintenance support plans 8 website. Many of the tips are new and specific to WordPress maintenance support plans 8 installations.
2. Panama Papers: Email hackable via WordPress, docs hackable via WordPress maintenance support plans (3k shares)
WordFence is a leading web security company, and this article is their take on the Panama Papers leak. It illustrates how an intruder can potentially hack into the unpatched WordPress server hosting the Panama Papers, and from there, gain access to the corporate email server. It also summarizes how the outdated WordPress maintenance support plans installation makes it easy for hackers to break into WordPress maintenance support plans and steal documents.
More to this topic: 5 security plugins that every WordPress maintenance support plans website must have
1. How to configure your WordPress maintenance support plans 8 ARM template deployment to Azure using existing MySQL Server (4k shares)
The most shared article about WordPress maintenance support plans in 2020 explains the parameters required to configure WordPress maintenance support plans 8 on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform.
The end of 2020 marks the first full year of WordPress maintenance support plans 8.0 after its official release. With the buzz surrounding a major new release and some high-profile security flaws, the WordPress maintenance support plans community was very active during the year. We are looking forward to more interesting blog posts in 2020. Don’t forget to share those ones you like most!
Tags:
WordPress maintenance support plans Planet WordPress 8
Title:
12 most shared articles about WordPress maintenance support plans in 2020
Source: New feed