7.0.2 got released on Friday. Exploits are already happening. People reporting hacks

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[–] 25 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Friendly reminder to anyone who cares enough that you can still use WordPress to make your site with all your fancy plugins and layouts, and then export that to a static site for hosting. No need to actually host Wordpress itself that way you avoid nearly all of this BS.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    this thing here. I've dramatically reduced support work at two shops I've set this up for. incidents went from from coupla times a month to once a year. not to mention - you don't need no VPS no more, don't need no database, nothing, the simplest web hosting will do and it's very cache friendly.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Correction: WordPress IS a critical vulnerability.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I have developed and hosted over 760 WP sites since 2006 and have never been hacked. Ever.

    Mediocre craftspeople blame their tools.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Glad you got lucky. But a tool having one critical vulnerability after another has nothing to do with mediocre craftsmanship and blaming admins for getting hacked after updating their software is nothing but disrespectful and condescending

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    thank god i was able to convince my boss to let go the old wordpress site and only serve static pages when he wanted to have a brand new design, its been about 2months with the new design

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It’s time to ditch WP if you haven’t already

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