JavaScript is an integral part of any web application and its importance continues to grow. With the expanded demands, an easier means to interface with JavaScript in web development became increasingly important. Web developers could, if they wanted to waste Continue reading JavaScript Libraries
Speed is money for an ecommerce site. The faster your site loads, the better the shopping experience. A better user experience translates to improved SEO, increased ROI, and happier customers. This ultimately leads to greater revenue and profits. Shoppers today Continue reading 17 Powerful Ways to Speed Up Your WooCommerce Store (2022 Ultimate Guide)
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the design foundation of most websites. It describes how the elements should be rendered on screen. This is where the CSS @import at-rule steps in to help. The @import rule tells the CSS engine to Continue reading CSS Import
Push Zones are now seamlessly supporting Image Processing! This allows global image hosting without having the images hosted on another origin server. The complete feature set of Image Processing is now also available for Push Zones. It only takes a Continue reading Push Zone Supports Image Processing
In the world of application development, there are two acronyms professionals must be familiar with to be successful: RUM and APM. These acronyms, which stand for real user monitoring and application performance monitoring, are software monitoring processes essential to measuring Continue reading RUM vs APM
We’ve developed an all-new dashboard that comes with a new look! You’ll benefit from better usability and many small improvements. The new dashboard offers excellent performance and better workflows. This will allow you to manage your Zones more efficiently. With Continue reading New Dashboard Launched
WordPress is the most popular CMS (content management system) in the world, powering over a third of the top 10 million websites, according to W3Techs. WordPress is an open source software project that many website service providers host for end Continue reading Fast WordPress Sites with Bluehost & Cloudflare Workers
Time and time again we see users on forums and social media complaining that managed WordPress hosting is a big waste of money. Their reason? It’s much better to manage your own server. Unfortunately, they never mention what all this Continue reading Why Trying to Be a Sysadmin to Save $20/Month Is a Bad Idea
The Time to First Byte (TTFB) of a site is the time from when the user starts navigating until the HTML for the page they requested starts to arrive. A slow TTFB has been the bane of my existence for Continue reading Improving HTML Time to First Byte
Die Time to First Byte (TTFB) einer Website ist die Zeit von dem Zeitpunkt, an dem der Benutzer mit der Navigation beginnt, bis der erste HTML-Code für die von ihm angeforderte Seite ankommt. Langsame TTFBs sind der Fluch, der über Continue reading Time to First Byte für HTML verbessern
We’ve had the tremendous pleasure of working with WP Engine for nearly 5 years, starting when both companies employed fewer than 100 people in total. From the beginning, we noticed striking similarities between our two companies—both were founded in 2010, Continue reading Welcome, WP Engine!
Today a severe vulnerability was announced by the WordPress Security Team that allows unauthenticated users to change content on a site using unpatched (below version 4.7.2) WordPress. CC BY-SA 2.0 image by Nicola Sap De Mitri The problem was found Continue reading Protecting everyone from WordPress Content Injection
Over 25% of all websites use WordPress, and over 10% of all internet traffic flows through CloudFlare; WordPress + CloudFlare has always been a winning combination, and now with CloudFlare’s new WordPress plugin, it’s easier than ever to make your Continue reading CloudFlare’s new WordPress plugin
Recently, a new brute force attack method for WordPress instances was identified by Sucuri. This latest technique allows attackers to try a large number of WordPress username and password login combinations in a single HTTP request. The vulnerability can easily Continue reading A Look at the New WordPress Brute Force Amplification Attack
Proxying around 5% of the Internet’s requests gives us an interesting vantage point from which to observe malicious behavior. However, it also makes us a target. Aside from the many and varied denial of service (DDoS) attacks that break against Continue reading Of Phishing Attacks and WordPress 0days
As many are aware, CloudFlare launched Universal SSL several months ago. We saw lots of customers sign up and start using these new, free SSL certificates. For many customers that didn’t already have an SSL certificate, they were able to Continue reading Flexible SSL & WordPress: Fixing “Mixed Content” Errors
If you are a CloudFlare Pro or above customer you enjoy the protection of the CloudFlare WAF. If you use one of the common web platforms, such as WordPress, Drupal, Plone, WHMCS, or Joomla, then it’s worth checking if the Continue reading Automatic protection for common web platforms
As we’ve said before, lots of our users run WordPress on their websites and its popularity makes it a big target. So when a new vulnerability is discovered, acting quickly is prudent. Jetpack is an extremely popular plugin to provide Continue reading Jetpack for WordPress: automatic protection
At CloudFlare a lot of our customers use WordPress, that's why we have our own plugin, we hang out at WordCamp and we wrote a WordPress specific ruleset for our Web Application Firewall. WordPress' ubiquity on the web can make Continue reading WordPress Pingback Attacks and our WAF
The team at the research firm Sucuri announced a serious vulnerability to W3TC and WP Super Cache this afternoon. (Update: it appears the vulnerability was first reported on WordPress.org about a month ago.) The vulnerability allows remote PHP code to Continue reading W3TC and WP Super Cache Vulnerability Discovered, We’ve Automatically Patched