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20 Jan 2020

Great Plugin: Safe Redirect Manager

Safe Redirect Manager Plugin I have one recommendation for webmasters looking for the perfect 301 redirection plugin: "Safe Redirect Manager" -- free & open source, safe, simple, does the job you installed it to do, nothing more, nothing less. This plugin solves all of my redirection needs from simple to complex. The developers are awesome…

28 Aug 2019

Development, Security, WordPress

Vulnerable Plugin: “Simple 301 Redirects”

I was informed by a colleague last month that a WordPress plugin: Simple 301 Redirects, had recently become the target & tool used to carry out mass website hacks over the last few months. The plugin allows attackers to exploit a vulnerability in the plugin update feature that results in redirection control over the entire…

28 Aug 2019

WordPress

I hate gutenberg editor

This isn't really a list of reasons, but more or less a statement that I hate Gutenberg editor. It was pretty bad taste on the latest WordPress releases to shove this horrible editor down everyone's throat with the blind assumption that it's the best thing since sliced bread. Everyone with a WordPress site hates it,…