With WordPress powering 35% of all the websites on the Internet it is a popular target for hackers. Finding an exploit in one plugin or theme can expose millions of websites. Furthermore, due to the vast number of plugins and themes, there are plenty of things to try and exploit. Recently there has been a…
One of the things we pride ourselves at Dolphin Promotions is our technical skills, and one of these skills includes hosting. All our sites are hosted on dedicated servers that we fully manage ourselves. We carry out all the server updates, handle all your backups and even update your website on a monthly basis to…
PHP is the programming language used behind 82% of the sites on the web, but it hasn’t really had a major release in over a decade with PHP 5 being released in 2004. Even PHP 5.5 is 4 years old. PHP 6 was abandoned due to various issues and finally, PHP 7 was officially released…
Please note, none of our clients are vulnerable to the following security issue In the past few days WordPress has bene suffering from a serious security breach. Securi, a specialist website security company identified a severe content injection (privilege escalation) vulnerability affecting the REST API. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated user to modify the content…
While this post is not necessarily relevant to most of our clients, we are always looking for ways to improve the quality of our service by researching methods to improve the way WordPress works. A common hosting option to help improve the load times of a WordPress website, and in theory to reduce hosting costs,…
Version 4.5 of WordPress, named “Coleman” in honour of jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. New features in 4.5 help streamline your workflow, whether you’re writing or building your site. With it being an update from 4.4x to 4.5 this represents a large update for WordPress so…
Over the past year one of the main complaints we have had from new clients about their old web developer is regarding hosting issues. This is especially true for companies using WordPress as the platform behind their website. The main problems these clients suffer from are: Slow hosting Frequent and/or prolonged downtime Hacked websites causing…
Following our blog post about the security issues related to WordPress we thought it would be good to list some of the backup options available to WordPress users. Taking backups of your site is probably the single most important thing you can do with a website, we have had to deal with countless situations where…
Cases of high profile hacks appear to have grown exponentially over recent years and even the largest companies have been victim to major hacks. The following are just some of the major hacks of 2014: ICANN Hacking – ICANN’s announcement of the incident. Sony Hacking – An excellent Analysis of the event from the beginning. Home Depot –…
WordPress SEO by Yoast is one of the most popular SEO plugins on the market with over 1 million active installs. Unfortunately yesterday WPScanVulnerability identified a security issue with it and issued the following statement The latest version at the time of writing (1.7.3.3) has been found to be affected by two authenticated (admin, editor or…