Yep. Another zero-day exploit of a WordPress plugin announced to the world irresponsibly by a researcher.
The way this is supposed to work: Researcher finds an exploit. He notifies the plugin developer and gives said developer time to develop a patch.
Developer makes the patch and makes it available to the public. THEN the researcher makes the announcement that he discovered a vulnerability.
This asshole skipped a couple steps.
More from Wordfence:
On Monday the WordPress plugin Yellow Pencil Visual Theme Customizer was closed in the WordPress.org plugin repository. The plugin is quite popular, with an active install base of over 30,000 websites. On Tuesday a security researcher made the irresponsible and dangerous decision to publish a blog post including a proof of concept (POC) detailing how to exploit a set of two software vulnerabilities present in the plugin.
We are seeing a high volume of attempts to exploit this vulnerability. The exploits very closely resemble the POC posted by the irresponsible researcher.
Wordfence, April 11, 2019
There are at least two potential remedies to you if you're using the Yellow Pencil plugin:
Source: Zero-Day Vulnerability in Yellow Pencil Visual Theme Customizer Exploited in the Wild
The post Should You Use ‘He’, ‘She’ or ‘They’ in Your Blog Posts? appeared first on ProBlogger. Read the full post there. It is worth your time. Below is a summarized version of the post.
This is a post by ProBlogger writing expert Ali Luke
You probably already know you should use “I” and “you” in your blog posts. But how do you use “he”, “she” and “they” in your blogging?
It’s an important issue, and one bloggers don’t always think about.
Let’s say you’re working on a blog post and you’ve got a sentences like this:
If you want to hire a blogger to write for you, it’s important that [PRONOUN] can provide you with relevant samples of [POSSESSIVE PRONOUN] writing.
If you want to hire a blogger to write for you, it’s important that he can provide you with relevant samples of his writing.
If you want to hire a blogger to write for you, it’s important that she can provide you with relevant samples of her writing.
If you want to hire a blogger to write for you, it’s important that he/she can provide you with relevant samples of his/her writing.
If you want to hire a blogger to write for you, it’s important that they can provide you with relevant samples of their writing.
Some of your readers may not identify as being either male or female. This can be the case even if your blog is aimed at a particular biological sex. (If you’re writing about ovarian cancer or prostate cancer, some of your readers may well be non-binary. You might also have transgender readers.)
The preferred pronoun for most of these readers is likely to be “they” (though there are other options such as “ze”), so using it as your all-purpose neutral pronoun makes great sense. That way you’re including all your readers: male, female and non-binary.
A few weeks ago the he/she/they issue generated a huge discussion in the ProBlogger Community group on Facebook.
One of the views there was along the lines of:
It’s my blog. I’ll do what I like, and if readers don’t like it then I don’t want them as readers anyway.
Another view was along these lines:
People get offended too easily these days.
While I can understand those perspectives, I disagree with them.
Source: Should You Use ‘He’, ‘She’ or ‘They’ in Your Blog Posts?
Image credit: Tim Mossholder
Among all social channels, Facebook is the one that has the most monthly active users, 2.23 billion.
This means more than 20% of the world’s population is active on Facebook every month.
Can you guess how many Facebook pages exist? 50 million? 60? 70?
Not correct.
As of May 2018, there were more than 80 million Facebook business pages.
And we as marketers have to try to be more unique than the other 79,999,999 marketers. Yeah, probably that sounds something impossible. Well, instead of being different, let’s try to give the best value we can to our audience.
You read it correctly.
We’ve already talked on the first point, that you shouldn’t put any promotional content in your organic posts. People hate that.
Instead of it, you can run engaging ads on Facebook and get new users/sales for your product or service.
Webinars can help you to:
– Stay connected with your current customers
– Make announcements about your products or services
– Talk about niche related topics
– Connect with a wider/new audience and tell them about your services
Webinars are a little bit underrated among Facebook marketing, but they can become a huge weapon for increasing your engagement and driving more sales.
Make the most of the data that Facebook Insights provides about your right audience for targeting and marketing. Here is a short list:
Conducting polls is a very interesting way of engaging your audience. Why?
Let me give you a quick example. People love playing games everywhere. And why not think about a game idea and give your customers something each week?
Why will it work?
Facebook groups are a little bit underrated nowadays. But I can’t really find the reason why.
WordStream reports that more than 100 million Facebook users belong to meaningful Facebook communities. Why not build another great community on Facebook who can ask questions, discuss some topics, and gather an active community around your brand name?
People love communities. They love to meet new people on social media and discuss their problems, ideas with others. And also they love to hear what other people talk about their minds.
Whatever happens on your page you must react promptly before any other person․ Any activity should be under your control.
In the past, where bots or automatic answers weren’t available in Facebook, it was a little bit harder to react to all the activity happening on your Facebook page in a short time.
But now you can set chat-bots and automate the whole messaging process of your page.
Do you know what’s the ranking of your page among your Facebook competitors? There are several tools and ways that you can use to analyze your competitors for generating new ideas for your page.
If we start from the beginning, the first thing to analyze is the kind of posts your competitors making on their page.
Facebook marketing tips haven’t changed a lot since the last year. Usually, marketers underrate some tools Facebook provides, such as groups and polls. If you understand how you can bring value to your audience by using these tools, they’ll be effective for you.
Roman Daneghyan is the Chief Marketing Officer at Renderforest. He can be found on Twitter @roman_daneghyan.
Source: Eight tips to get the most from your Facebook business page in 2019
In 2013, Andreas Johansson launched a new vodka for a celebrity who knows a thing or two about controversy. The client, Dennis Rodman, had just wrapped a season of Celebrity Apprentice, and he was making headlines as the first American who visited North Korea’s then-leader Kim Jong-un. “I think we launched Bad Boy Vodka right as he was coming back from his second trip to North Korea,” Johansson said. “At that point, feedback was still overwhelmingly positive.”
Michael Josem has marketed online gambling platforms for over a decade, and he knows how tricky the process can be. He worked in marketing and public relations for several online gambling companies, including PokerStars, for over a decade before switching to the agency world.
While working as the head of brand public relations at PokerStars, Josem oversaw a team dedicated to earned media opportunities, which included “finding, creating, and telling positive stories about the brand, and also responding to stories that were critical of the brand.”
PokerStars is the largest real-money poker game in the world. The brand controls over two-thirds of the market. Despite being a gargantuan presence that follows clearly defined gambling guidelines, PokerStars has been continually linked to lesser sites. Josem said some of these sites stretch the limits of ethical, legal gambling to the breaking point. That meant his job was differentiating the PokerStars brand from the herd.
To change that perception, PokerStars started by celebrating big winners locally, away from a computer screen. The company threw parties for winners in their communities, which accomplished two things. First, it played up the idea that the platform isn’t rigged, and anyone can win. Second, it challenged the notion that online poker is shady.
The editors at cannabisMD know what you’re thinking, but their brand is not another stoner haven. “We’re not talking about flower, smoking, or bud,” Jennifer Romolini, the site’s new editor-in-chief, said. “We’re not going to slap up some tie-dye. That’s a cool young hip space to play in, but we’re a very specific, higher-end brand, and our content is about healing and getting yourself some help.”
Romolini and her team publish articles on cannabisMD that break down complex medical insights on cannabis, sourced from clinical studies, and delivered in approachable language for an intelligent audience. The audience uses cannabis products to combat medical issues. But, that’s not to say the brand can’t have fun. Romolini likens cannabisMD to the health and wellness section of a women’s magazine, which is an industry she’s very familiar with, after twenty years of working in women’s editorial at Shondaland, Yahoo!Shine, and Timeout.
“A lot of publications address the recreational aspect,” she said. “So we believe the medical and wellness group is undeserved. There’s a way to marry readers to the data, based on what we’ve learned by surveying our existing audience and learning about SEO.”
How will cannabisMD’s team know that they’re breaking through the stereotypes of cannabis and reaching the right audience? It’s easier to tell than you’d think. “Digital lets you know pretty quickly if things are working,” she said. “There aren’t really any surprises in this industry anymore.”
Source: (Ad)vice: 3 Marketers at Controversial Companies Explain Their Methods
In WordPress, there are subtle differences between posts & pages.
Often WordPress beginners get confused between posts and pages. By default, WordPress comes with two content types: posts and pages.
As a beginner, you are probably wondering what’s the difference between posts vs pages? They seem to look similar in the WordPress dashboard as well as on the website.
Readers often ask us: Why do I need both? When should I use posts? When should I use pages?
In this article, we will explain the difference between posts vs. pages in WordPress.
To summarize, following are the key differences between posts vs pages in WordPress.
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