WordPress Hosting
Key Selling Points
- Free and Open-source based on MySQL and PHP.
- Reliable Content Management (CMS) features are packed with tools for multichannel publishing, digital asset management, and SEO.
- The most popular blogging system on the web is used by over 60 million websites, i.e. 28% of the internet.
- WordPress is accessible and easy to set up for everyone. It covers most of the average user's needs to build the website they want.
- It can also be used to create brochure websites, professional-grade sites, portfolios, large news sites, e-commerce websites, etc.
- Responsive design, easy to install, customization and optimization.
- Plugins: To quickly extend the website functionality without requiring any coding or advanced technical skills.
- Craft a fully functional, structural, sound website.
Support: Self-service knowledge base available 24.7.365. Live chat support on weekdays, localized email support, contact forms and community forums
Customers: Bloggers, Professional looking websites, Businesses
Features
- Live article search, Drag & drop the article, voting, and layout options.
- Featured with template system and plug-in architecture
- The platform offers 59,000+ free plugins and 9,000+ free & professionally designed themes
- List articles shortcode and category widgets and re-arrange widgets without editing HTML or PHP code.
- Perfect for SEO: Clean permalink structure, custom URL, and support for tagging. WordPress SEO Tools are capable of dragging the site to the higher ranks and helping in the process of website growth and development.
- Easy-to-use interface, straightforward approach and supports multiple languages.
- Easy-to-use block editors: Beaver Builder, Elementor, and Divi
- Blogging tools: categories, comment moderation, post scheduling and tags
- Built-in SEO tools: Auto-generated XML sitemaps, Yoast, Mailchimp and Google Analytics
- E-Commerce: WooCommerce integration limited to WordPress Pro plan
WordPress Security
- Jetpack
- WordPress has a vital security feature, ‘Capability Check, ‘ which specifies allowed actions, authority, permissions, or user roles (like administrator, editor, etc.).
Managed WordPress Hosting
The hosting company provides maintenance, security, support, and optimization to achieve the best possible performance. The client gets a hassle-free experience from all worries about hackers, backups, or plugins with negative impacts.
WordPress Details
| Created in Year | 2003 |
| Created by | Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little |
| Type | free, open-source software |
| License | GPLv2 |
| Plugins | Approx. 59,000 |
| Hosted Websites on Platform | Approx. 500 Million |
Jetpack Professional Hosting
Powerful Managed WordPress Hosting Services
Features
- An image CDN and video CDN with no bandwidth restrictions
- In-depth website statistics, high-quality premium themes, advanced SEO tools, and priority access to WordPress experts at Automatic
- downtime monitoring
- comprehensive spam protection and on-demand malware scans
- daily backups powered by VaultPress
- Building with Blocks:
Competitors: Squarespace, Wix, Weebly
CMS Market Share: 65.1%
No. of Active Website (approximately): 43.4%
WordPress Ecosystem
| Year | |
| 2021 | $636 billion |
| 2020 | $596.7 billion |
Premium Organizations Using WordPress: The White House, Vogue, The Walt Disney Company, BBC America, Facebook Newsroom, TIME Magazine, Zoom, Tech Crunch, Sony Music, Spotify Newsroom, and Samsung News
Requirements
| Web Server | Apache or Nginx |
| PHP version | 7.4 or greater |
| MySQL | 5.7 or greater |
| MariaDB | version 10.3 or greater |
WordPress Errors and Fixes
WordPress is all about transparency; someone reports and resolves most mistakes before the user. However, some common mistakes cause the customer to have a panic attack. Beginners have the opportunity to check these via numerous tutorials available. The ten most common WordPress errors and their respective fixes are described below:
- Syntax Errors occur when the user misses something or when the code has incorrect syntax while trying to add code snippets into WordPress. The result is a PHP parse error and is viewed as:
Parse error – syntax error, unexpected $end in /public_html/site1/wp- content/themes/my-theme/functions.php on line 263
The error message indicates an erroneous entity and its location in the code. To fix this, the correct syntax needs to be corrected. In most cases, the culprit is a missing bracket or some inaccurate, unexpected character in the code. - Internal Server Error: Also viewed as 500 Internal Server Error, this usually happens when the server cannot identify and recognize the problem. The user is left in the lurch to detect the problem independently.
- Database Connection Error: It is evident that the reason for viewing this error is the inability of connect a website with the database. It may spell doom for a novice, but it can be easily solved by correcting database login authorization (database host, password, and username). The cause may also be an unresponsive or corrupted database.
- 404 Error: Viewed when a user visits a single post; the next step is to browse through all site sections with the admin area, looking out for permalink settings. To resolve this issue, the user must reconfigure permalink settings or manually update their rewriting rules.
- The sidebar below Content Error: When the sidebar appears below instead of next to the content, the cause is related to themes. While adding code scraps, failing to close the HTML div tag or adding an extra closing div may cause breakage in the theme layout. Further, other triggers include using disproportionate width in CSS and not clearing the float appropriately.
- Memory Exhausted Error: The cause of this error is the depletion of the default allocated memory size limit and is indicated by a white screen or an error message: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2348617 bytes) in /home/username/public_html/site1/wp- includes/plugin.php online xxx
- White Text and Missing Buttons Error: This problem occurs when concatenated JavaScript does not work in the user’s admin area, missing or corrupting TinyMCE files or issues with other plugins that modify or extend TinyMCE shipped with WordPress.
- Locked Out of WordPress: When a user forgets a password and has no access to the password recovery email, it may result in being locked out of the WordPress admin area. Additionally, a plugin or code that wrongly tries to make some changes to the admin section and the action of changing all usernames and passwords due to the hacking of the WordPress site may be the reason, too.
- Login Page Refresh and Redirecting Issue: When the user tries to log in to the WordPress dashboard and is redirected back to a login page, the user needs to check the values for the site URL and home URL in the options table.
- Image Upload Issue: Sometimes, all images are viewed as broken, and on uploading to a post using a media uploader, it results in an error, and all files appear as broken. This occurs due to incorrect file and directory permissions in an installation of WordPress.
Although this list is not exhaustive, these common errors and their solutions will enable the user to breeze through most of them.
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Ananova runs on the latest WordPress version, 6.4.3. With the new version, Automattic fixes two WordPress vulnerabilities and 21 bugs.
PHP File Upload Bypass Via Plugin Installer vulnerability is the first patch. The vulnerability allowed attackers to upload PHP files to inject malware into a website via the plugin and theme uploader. Although considered low, the attacker needed administrator-level permissions to execute this attack.
The second patch was for a Remote Code Execution POP Chains vulnerability that could allow an attacker to execute code remotely, typically through manipulating input that the WordPress site deserializes, to execute arbitrary code on the server. Furthermore, it was also considered low.
The SeedProd patched a highly severe vulnerability called ‘Missing Capability Check’ within the ‘seedprod_lite_new_lpage’ function in ‘Website Builder’ with over 900,000 installations. It was rated 8.2 according to the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). The vulnerability could lead unauthenticated attackers to modify the content of various pages created using the plugin, such as coming soon or maintenance pages, login and 404 pages. Thus, it exposes websites to serious security issues of data tampering, leading to potential exploits. The plugin users strongly advised to immediately update the plugin to version 6.15.22 to secure their website against attacks.
Wordfence Intelligence found hackers exploiting a critical vulnerability ‘CVE-2023-6933’ in the popular WordPress plugin ‘Better Search Replace’ which affects millions of websites. The hackers execute code, access sensitive data, and manipulate or delete files through “deserializing untrusted input,” injecting an unauthenticated PHP object. It leads to the shutdown of affected websites. The developers fixed the vulnerability with the new release 14.5.
The plugin allows WordPress to search deeper and replace databases when they move websites to new domains and servers.
The WordPress Core Performance Team released two plugins ‘Auto-sizes for Lazy-loaded Images’ & ‘Speculation Rules’ for speeding up webpages. The new technology pre-render URLs before a user clicks on a link and speeds up lazy-loaded images. The plugin Auto-sizes for Lazy-loaded Images integrates a new lazy loading HTML attribute called sizes=”auto” that sets the “sizes” attribute to “auto” for lazy-loaded images using ‘srcset’ and speeds up the downloading for images.
The sizes attribute used with srcset provides the browser with the image size dimensions needed to display the image at different viewport sizes. The browser is then able to select the most appropriate image source from the srcset.
The Speculation Rules plugin leverages the Speculation Rules API to prerender linked URLs upon hover by default i.e., downloads the resources of webpages that a user is likely to request or might click to navigate to a different page. It targets document URLs rather than specific resource files, and so makes sense for multi-page applications (MPAs) rather than single-page applications (SPAs). It provides an alternative to the widely available feature and is designed to supersede the Chrome-only deprecated feature. Alternatively, add the ‘no-prerender’ CSS class to any link ( tag) that should not be prerendered.
Lazy loading is a performance optimization technique that defers (pauses) the loading of non-critical images to improve page loading times. The necessary images rendered first while rest deferred until the user scrolls.