
We measured before telling anyone to disable wp-cron. An empty WP-Cron check costs 18 ms, just 1.17% of an uncached page load. On 100% of the WordPress installs we audited, the default was fine.
WordPress and spam go together like highways and traffic jams. Everyone agrees that the former is indispensable, but desperately wishes it could exist without the latter. The good news is that unlike with gridlock, there IS something you can…

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. Even though WordPress is one of the most frequently-targeted platforms for cybercriminals; even though it seems like there’s a new vulnerability connected to the platform every week, WordPress itself is…

As you well know, WordPress is the most popular content management system in the world. It powers 23% of the web, with over 60 million users worldwide. That popularity has served it well in some regards – it hosts…

