A new report about the state of WordPress security called attention to the hidden threat posed by premium plugins and to the fact that hackers are increasingly exploiting vulnerabilities before many sites can patch them. Security Is Increasingly A Race Against Time The Patchstack WordPress security company’s State of WordPress Security report shows that hackers […]
Joost de Valk Exits Federated WordPress Repository Project
Joost De Valk, founder of Yoast SEO, announced that he is stepping away from FAIR, a Linux Foundation project for creating an independent repository of themes and plugins. Fair Project The FAIR project was launched in mid-2025 in response to the Matt Mullenweg replaced WP Engine’s Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin in the official repository […]