Recovering this blog from a WordPress plugin attack

I got a few email alerts from Word­fence about mali­cious scripts on this site. Turns out one of the plu­g­ins installed here had ben sold on and was inject­ing javascript onto every page. Crit­i­cal Prob­lems: * File con­tains sus­pect­ed mal­ware URL: wp-content/plugins/widget-logic/WidgetLogicAdminConfig.php The mali­cious URL matched This was an alert that I saw whilst scan­ning my …

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WordPress buying Tumblr

WordPress.com own­er Automat­tic that has last week been report­ed to pur­chase rival Microbloging site Tum­blr. The deal is being report­ed to be below $3 Mil­lion, far below the hyper val­u­a­tion of $1.1 Bil­lion that Yahoo paid in 2013. Back then Yahoo was buy­ing lots of start up com­pa­nies as part of a revi­tal­i­sa­tion dri­ve by …

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Help, My WordPress editor has changed!

Note: this applies to self host­ed ver­sion of Word­Press, not to the ver­sion that uses WordPress.com. Last week, the new ver­sion of Word­Press was released. After many delays, the self host­ed Word­Press 5.0 brought the new Guten­berg edi­tor. This has been con­tro­ver­sial with a lot of peo­ple in the Word­Press com­mu­ni­ty. The new edi­tor changes …

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