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Building the Future of Pagely: Our Vision for 2020
About a month ago we had the extreme pleasure of getting our remote-first team together for an in-person retreat in Gatlinburg, TN to strategize and plan the vision for our company in 2020 and beyond. Fast forward to today and we’re in the midst of a global pandemic, the likes of which none of us…
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The Dangers of Unlicensed WordPress Plugins and Themes
One of the greatest things about WordPress is the open source community behind it. Thanks to the multitude of plugins and themes available, even the most basic of users can create and deploy a WordPress site with ease. Through this beautiful ecosystem that empowers people to build amazing websites, several businesses have also flourished. Premium…
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WordPress Security Updates: Feb 2020
WordPress Core No notable WordPress core security releases. Plugin/Theme Vulnerabilities of Note Duplicator Plugin The Duplicator and Duplicator-Pro plugins both contained a vulnerability that allowed attackers to make a single request to a website, and be able to download arbitrary files from the WordPress website. It is being reported that attackers are actively using this…
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How Pagely was Built by a Husband and Wife: Sally Strebel, Pagely COO on Mixergy
Talk to any boots to the ground entrepreneur, especially in tech, and they’ll tell you Mixergy is one of the podcasts they listened to when they were getting their business started. The same goes for us. That’s why we’re psyched to announce our co-founder and COO, Sally Strebel, as the latest guest to go under…
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WordCamp 2020: On Stage in Phoenix as the Self Documenting Developer
The recent WordCamp Phoenix was once again a vibrant, community-focused event that was packed with useful content and friendly people. I was thrilled to speak on stage as a software developer to a great crowd of my fellow WordPress and engineer peers about documentation from a developer’s perspective, and how documentation has evolved over the…
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WordPress Security Updates: Jan 2020
WordPress Security and Maintenance Releases: 5.2.4, 5.3.1, and 5.3.2 Pagely customers were spared issues from bugs introduced in the 5.3.0 release as, due to the proximity to the holidays, we didn’t upgrade our customers to 5.3 until early January. All Pagely customers received security patches for vulnerabilities identified in WordPress Core before 5.2.4 for the…
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Pagely’s Lizzie Kardon Interviewed by NBC on the TODAY Show
Today I went on national television to represent over 500 women in tech because it’s time to close the pay gap and start paying people what they’re worth. The tech industry has long been dominated by men, with only 25% of the workforce being made up of women. Yes, this isn’t a new conversation. Women…
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The Short History of Unauthenticated Site Options Update Vulnerabilities
Over recent years Pagely’s security team noticed a trend in WordPress related attacks targeting unauthenticated changes to a WordPress website’s options table. The attack is specific to WordPress, but in its boiled down essence, this vulnerability would fall under Broken Access Controls/Elevation of Privilege (OWASP Top 10, 2017 A5). In laypersons terms: the application lacks…
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Exploring Microservices Architecture: What You Need to Know
Microservice Architecture (a.k.a. “Microservices”) is a method of developing software focused on building single-function modules. The term was coined in 2011 and the microservice approach quickly gained steam near the end of 2013: The advancement of microservices was driven, in part, by tech giants like Netflix, Amazon, Twitter, Google, and Uber evangelizing its benefits. What’s…
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An Introduction to Amazon EC2
“The cloud” changed the game so much, and so quickly, it’s difficult to remember what things were like before it arrived. But, not that long ago, getting server resources meant buying or leasing an actual box off the rack of a server farm. It wasn’t instant. It wasn’t cheap. And it usually required a great…