Last Thursday, Awesome Motive CEO Syed Balkhi announced his company acquired the All in One SEO Pack (AIOSEO) plugin. Michael Torbert, the plugin creator, first released AIOSEO in 2007. Since then, the plugin has been downloaded over 65 million times. It is currently active on over 2 million WordPress sites. Balkhi said his company acquired…
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I discuss the news of the week including, Jetpack 4.1, an event aimed at new and introverted WordCamp attendees, Aesop Story Engine, and more. This episode is only 35 minutes in length as I was dealing with severe weather so it should be easy to digest.…
Semper Fi Web Design, the company behind All in One SEO, a popular WordPress SEO optimization plugin that’s active on more than 1M sites, has released 2.3.7 to patch a persistent XSS security vulnerability. According to the plugin’s changelog, 2.3.7 sanitizes the Bad Bots module referer and user agent. While it doesn’t sound significant on the surface, this…
The popular All In One SEO Plugin for WordPress has released an update addressing two security issues discovered by Sucuri during a security audit. According to Sucuri, one of the vulnerabilities can be used to escalate privileges while the other deals with Cross Site Scripting attacks. A logged-in user who doesn’t have administrative capabilities is…
Just wanted to give a quick congratulations to Michael Torbert also known as hallsofmontezuma as the All In One SEO Pack has reached over 1,000,000 downloads. While Michael can’t lay claim to every single one of those downloads considering he picked up development for the plugin not too long ago, reaching one million downloads is…