WordPress powers nearly 20 percent of all the sites in the world — and half of that figure is hosted for free on WordPress.com. With more than a decade under its belt, the open-source platform has ...

WordPress.org announced that plugins and themes that are pirated versions of paid plugins and themes will be removed from the official WordPress repositories. The WordPress community debated if that ...

We'll show you what makes a great WordPress theme -- and how to choose an option to get the best results for your website. Dianna Gunn built her first WordPress website in 2008. Since then, she's ...

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Out of all the sites on the web, about 34 percent of them use a content management system (CMS). From those 34 percent, more than half use WordPress—58.5 percent to be exact. The ease of use and ...

From humble beginnings to powering almost half the sites on the Internet, the WordPress blogging platform is here to stay. And if you’ve ever built or managed a WordPress site, you’ve likely spent ...

WordPress announced a major clampdown to protect its theme and plugin ecosystem from password insecurity. These improvements follow a flurry of attacks in June that compromised multiple plugins at the ...

A massive supply chain attack compromised 93 WordPress themes and plugins to contain a backdoor, giving threat-actors full access to websites. In total, threat actors compromised 40 themes and 53 ...

As more website owners convert their website to the WordPress platform, it creates a need for more WordPress themes as well. After all, we wouldn’t want everyone’s website to look the same, would we?

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WordPress is a free blogging content management system that allows you to create your own customized blog and post content to the Internet. You have complete control ...