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WordPress for Enterprise Guide Provides Highly Misleading View of WordPress Security

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The news outlet (barely disclosed to be owned by they head of WordPress) the WP Tavern on Tuesday covered a guide for promoting WordPress to enterprises, which they described as “a useful resource for large organizations examining WordPress as a platform or for small agencies looking to pitch WordPress to larger clients”. They also described that as coming from a “collection of leading WordPress agencies” that “have launched a collaborative project to promote the platform to large-scale organizations”. Those agencies are “Big Bite, in partnership with 10up, Alley, Human Made, Inpsyde, and XWP”. We reviewed the section on security and found that it to be littered with misleading, at best, information. But it does point to areas where agencies could help to get WordPress more secure.

(The guide also including contributions form WordPress VIP, which is part of the head of WordPress’ company Automattic, but no disclosure was made of his role of both that and the WP Tavern.) [Read more]