The next time you sign up for a website or you click on the ‘Forgotten password’ link and they email you your password…. run! Delete your account and don’t use them.
Let me explain why.
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Add a Time to Read To Your WordPress Posts
Popular on posts these days is a ‘time to read’ appearing at the top to give readers an idea how long it will take to read through a potential opus. Plugins exist to do this but, when it’s so easy to do, why do it?
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Why many websites don’t have security as a priority
As part of my new job online security is paramount. To this end, for a number of months I’ve been ploughing through my online accounts and updating passwords to be unique and strong. A password manager is essential to this – I use LastPass but 1Password is also recommended. I also changed my email address recently too so I’ve been taking the opportunity to update that as well.
Unfortunately, some websites, and retailers in particular, don’t seem to want to help out, making it difficult, one way or another, to be as secure online as you’d like.
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Useful WordPress code snippets
If you wish to add any additional code to a WordPress site, where you place it is important. If it’s theme specific code you should add it to `functions.php`, in the theme folder. For CSS you should add this to the theme customizer. If the latter is not available to you, your theme may have a `custom.css` file for this. If it’s not a theme specific change then I create my own, single-file plugin.
A lot of my code snippets over the years have gone on to become full-blown plugins in their own right but there is still some code that remains in my site plugin. So I thought I’d share them.
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WordPress and Update Signing
So, you’ve created open source software to make it easier to provide update signing. It requires auditing but you ask WordPress to implement it with their system but, for now, they decline, simply because it’s not something immediately planned. However, Matt Mullenwegg agreed to donate towards getting the audit done.
What would you do the next day?
I’m guessing it wouldn’t involve posting a massive rant about WordPress, but specifically aimed at Matt, about how much WordPress doesn’t care about security, even to the point of trying to make popular a hashtag of #StopMullware? Well, that’s just what Scott Arciszewski did, via Medium.
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