Plugin Trends: October 15, 2020

The things that we find standing out this week comes from the base needs of every new WordPress installation. The needs which come from that moment of regret after installing WordPress. You’ve found out about those critical missing pieces because with WordPress the batteries are not included: Security, Performance, Social, Contact Forms = Jetpack SEO = Yoast e-commerce […]

Plugin Trends: October 8th, 2020

It looks like Google’s AMP project made big waves this week and rocketed to the top of the charts. When these things happen, we generally can find an interesting article or triggering event that precedes the trend: https://9to5google.com/2020/09/22/google-web-stories-wordpress/ In the Stable category we see SEO, more specifically Yoast, continues to occupy most WordPress administrator’s minds. Though WooCommerce in […]

Plugin Trends: October 1st, 2020

The Pluginalytics AI Monitor reports the weekly trending WordPress Plugins via the most searched for keywords. For October 1st, 2020, these keywords stand out. Popular: Landing Page Page Builder Drag and Drop Editor Elementor Climbing: Graphs Author Check Password Protect Multisite Stable: Disable Gutenberg Malware Scanner WooCommerce Content Backup

Why Update WordPress Plugins?

The wisdom of the crowd gets it wrong on this one. Automatic Updates for WordPress can only help fix WordPress’s tarnished security reputation. Microsoft showed that this solution works unreasonably well. So, it follows WordPress should copy the same playbook. When you have a large distributed install base you most definitely need Automatic Updates. We see no better way to deploy security fixes than to remove the human element. Have the systems repair themselves.

So, Who becomes the crank that advocates tampering with the built in security solutions? Why do they undermine the best solution to the security problem? How did they get this way?