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Longreads has been connecting readers with quality stories since 2009, and since joining Automattic in 2014, we’ve published more than 100 pieces of original reporting, essays, and book excerpts from talented writers and reporters from across the globe. Here are five. “Violet,” by Adele Oliveira Illustration by: Kjell Reigstad Violet was born at 25 weeks… Continue reading Five Engaging Longreads Stories You Might Have Missed

Credit: Facebook WordPress parent Automattic has built a plugin for Facebook Instant Articles that will soon allow everyone in its user base to easily post content on the social media platform’s walled garden. Instant Articles delivers content on mobile devices at blazing fast speeds. Come April 12, Facebook will open up Instant Articles to everyone,… Continue reading Battle For Mobile Web Ramps Up as WordPress Creates Plugin to Automate Facebook Instant Articles – AdAge.com

Facebook is teaming up with Automattic (parent company of WordPress.com) to release a plugin that will make it easy for anyone using the publishing platform to post speed-optimized Instant Articles onto the social network. Facebook announced a couple of weeks ago that it would open up Instant Articles – posts that have been formatted and optimized to load almost immediately on mobile –… Continue reading Facebook’s new WordPress plugin will make it easy for bloggers to publish Instant Articles – The Next Web

The precise number of websites out there running on WordPress may not be known, but one thing is for sure – there are a lot of them. Two reasons for the popularity of WordPress are the ease of set up and the availability of a huge range of plugins. One popular plugin, Custom Content Type… Continue reading Popular WordPress plugin pulled after password-stealing backdoor … – ITProPortal

Facebook made a wide roll out to its Instant Article that already reached its release date, the social media is now attempting to implement a WordPress plugin aiming at the millions of publishers using the known revenue. Like Us on Facebook Facebook noted on a blog post by introducing the feature, claiming that the open source… Continue reading Facebook Will Soon Introduce WordPress Plugin To Its Instant Article – Jobs & Hire

Sucuri’s investigations have revealed a new plugin that looked like an abandoned project but has now mysteriously changed owner followed by a name change to for the plugin to wooranker along with a push of the new version. With all of the plugin updates being nefarious in nature. Additionally, wooranker also added the CCTM_Communicator.php file,… Continue reading WordPress Plugin, Includes Backdoor to Alter Files – HTML Goodies

How likely are you to stay on a slow-loading website? If you’re like most of us, the answer is, “not very.” Today’s web surfers expect pages to load quickly. In fact, KISSMetrics says load time should stay under 2 seconds, and that 40% of web surfers will leave a site that takes longer than 3… Continue reading 13 Ways to Speed Up Your WordPress Site – Business 2 Community – Business 2 Community

The precise number of websites out there running on WordPress may not be known, but one thing is for sure — there are a lot of them. Two reasons for the popularity of WordPress are the ease of set up and the availability of a huge range of plugins. One popular plugin, Custom Content Type… Continue reading Popular WordPress plugin pulled after discovery of password … – BetaNews

WordPress is a very popular solution on the web, and this is probably what explains why it is often the target of hackers and hackers of all stripes. Experts from Sucuri come from elsewhere to detect a new critical vulnerability. This time it is not the CMS that is in question, but an extremely popular… Continue reading WordPress: if you use this plagin, then you are in penury! | The Siver … – The Siver Times

Building your own website doesn’t require the coding expertise it used to. Thanks to user-friendly WordPress themes and tutorials, virtually anybody can create an eye-catching and enjoyable website – but where to start? The options are nearly limitless, so TNW has put together a handful of premium deals at bargain prices to help get you up… Continue reading Bring your website ideas to life with these great WordPress deals – The Next Web