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Sophisticated & Stealthy Formjacking Malware Targets E-Commerce Checkout Pages

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team recently uncovered a sophisticated formjacking malware targeting WooCommerce sites. This malware injects a fake payment form into legitimate checkout processes and exfiltrates sensitive customer data to a remote Command & Control (C2) server. Unlike traditional card skimmers that simply overlay existing forms, this variant carefully integrates with the WooCommerce site’s design and payment workflow, making it particularly difficult for site owners and users to detect.

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7 WordPress Best Practices For Ecommerce

Your WordPress store might be bleeding money right now. That abandoned cart rate? Those bounces from your product pages? Each represents real dollars walking away from your business. Most store owners tinker with the wrong settings while ignoring what actually drives sales. This is a straightforward guide to turning casual visitors into paying customers without …

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New Dentist Starter Site for Divi (Quick Install)

Divi empowers you to build the best websites possible, and now, Divi Quick Sites takes website creation to a whole new level. This revolutionary tool lets anyone, regardless of skill level, generate a complete website in under two minutes! Divi Quick Sites provides everything you need to launch your dream website instantly. You can choose …

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New Florist Starter Site for Divi (Quick Install)

Divi empowers you to build the best websites possible, and now, Divi Quick Sites takes website creation to a whole new level. This revolutionary tool lets anyone, regardless of skill level, generate a complete website in under two minutes! Divi Quick Sites provides everything you need to launch your dream website instantly. You can choose …

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How to Customize WooCommerce Checkout for International Customers

Learn how to customize your WooCommerce checkout page to improve the user experience for international customers, and sell more. Ever tried buying something online and the checkout form made you feel like, “wait, this isn’t built for me…”  Maybe the phone field only accepted a specific country code, or the address format didn’t match yours. …

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How Divi 5 Is Blazing The Trail (While Still In Alpha)

Divi 5 is unquestionably taking shape. It has only been four months since we launched our first new feature to Divi 5 — Customizable Breakpoints — and we’ve made steady and impressive progress since then. In those four months, we’ve released seven other groundbreaking features to Divi 5. This shows the strong foundation we created …

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How To Build A Website With Divi 5 (Join Early & Get Ahead)

Think back to when you first realized how quickly you could assemble a beautiful website with Divi. It felt like the perfect balance between creativity and simplicity. Divi 4 gave everyone fantastic design tools and a smooth visual builder, but we at Elegant Themes were not going to settle. We’ve listened closely to your feedback …

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How To Get Started With Divi 5

Divi 5 is the next generation of the Divi Builder, not just another version update. It’s a complete rebuild from the ground up (with backwards compatibility), and it focuses on faster performance, new features and capabilities, more design freedom, and long-term scalability.  In addition to the foundational improvements, Divi 5 has also gained a …

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Introducing Attribute Management For Divi 5

We’re excited to release Attribute Management for Divi 5, which can selectively or collectively copy, paste, and reset attributes across elements. It’s the most comprehensive attribute system for any builder! 🤩 You can copy styles, presets, and content from one element and paste them onto another. You can copy attributes at the field or group …

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Divi 5 Public Alpha 14: Release Notes & Progress Updates

The Divi 5 Public Alpha is available for use on new websites. If you use Divi 5, you’ll notice an update notification for Public Alpha Version 14. We release new Divi 5 versions every two weeks, and it gets better each time. If you haven’t tested Divi 5 yet, try it and let us know …

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9 Things To Look For In A WordPress Page Builder

Most builders look similar on paper. They all promise drag-and-drop simplicity and beautiful designs. But start using them, and the differences become painfully obvious. Some will fight you over basic layouts. Others slow your site to a crawl. Many leave you stuck with limited design options unless you learn to code. This post focuses on …

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10,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in UiPress lite WordPress Plugin

On March 29th, 2025, we received a submission for a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in UiPress lite, a WordPress plugin with over 10,000 active installations. This vulnerability can be leveraged to execute code remotely, which makes it possible for attackers to do nearly anything like injecting backdoors, exfiltrating sensitive information, and injection malicious spam or SEO redirects just to name a few impacts.

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Should You Use Divi 4 Or Divi 5 For Your Website Builds?

Divi has long been considered one of the most popular WordPress themes and page builders, allowing you to create beautiful, professional websites without coding. Its intuitive Visual Builder, vast module library, and flexibility have made it a go-to for freelancers, agencies, and businesses. With the release of Divi 5 Public Alpha, the familiar building experience …

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Using ChatGPT to Translate WordPress Sites: What Works, What Breaks, and a Smarter Alternative

Many WordPress users are exploring ways to combine ChatGPT and WPML to translate their websites. And it’s no surprise — ChatGPT is fast, fluent, and far better than traditional machine translation tools like Google Translate or DeepL. In this article, we’ll go over what ChatGPT does well, where it fails in a real-world WordPress workflow, …

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Win a Free Spot in Modern WordPress Fast Track

We believe everyone deserves access to quality WordPress development education, regardless of financial circumstances. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we’re giving away one free spot in our upcoming Modern WordPress Fast Track course to someone who couldn’t otherwise afford it. About the Course Modern WordPress Fast Track is a 10-week course that will… Read More »Win a Free Spot in Modern WordPress Fast Track

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WPML 4.8 Will Drop Support for Twig Templates in Custom Switchers

We’re planning to release WPML 4.8 in about 3 months. In this upcoming version, we’ll remove support for using Twig templates to customize language and currency switchers. What This Means for You This change only affects you if your website is currently using Twig templates to create fully customized language or currency switchers. If you’re …

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New Crypto Starter Site for Divi (Quick Install)

Divi empowers you to build the best websites possible, and now, Divi Quick Sites takes website creation to a whole new level. This revolutionary tool lets anyone, regardless of skill level, generate a complete website in under two minutes! Divi Quick Sites provides everything you need to launch your dream website instantly. You can choose …

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New Web Design Starter Site for Divi (Quick Install)

Divi empowers you to build the best websites possible, and now, Divi Quick Sites takes website creation to a whole new level. This revolutionary tool lets anyone, regardless of skill level, generate a complete website in under two minutes! Divi Quick Sites provides everything you need to launch your dream website instantly. You can choose …

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50,000 WordPress Sites Affected by PHP Object Injection Vulnerability in Uncanny Automator WordPress Plugin

On April 26th, 2024, we received a submission for an authenticated PHP Object Injection vulnerability in Uncanny Automator, a WordPress plugin with more than 50,000 active installations. This vulnerability can be leveraged via an existing POP chain present in the plugin to delete arbitrary files, including the wp-config.php file, which can make site takeover and remote code execution by authenticated subscriber-level attackers possible.

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82,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in TheGem WordPress Theme

On May 4th, 2025, we received a submission for an Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in TheGem, a WordPress theme with more than 82,000 sales. This vulnerability can be used by authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to upload arbitrary files to a vulnerable site and achieve remote code execution, which is typically leveraged for a complete site takeover.

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Everything You Need To Know About Divi 5 Module Groups

Divi 5 improves website creation with new features and unparalleled flexibility. Module Groups is one of the most recent additions to Divi 5. This feature allows you to organize multiple elements into a single, manageable group that you can style, move, or duplicate with a single click. This feature becomes particularly helpful once upcoming features like …

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How To Pick A Website Builder In 2025

The website builder you pick today might save you headaches or create new ones tomorrow. What truly matters isn’t how easy the first page is to build but what happens when you need more from your site six months from now. In this post, we’ll compare the website builders available today and walk you through …

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Using Design Variables With Presets In Divi 5

Option Group Presets (which pair nicely with Element Presets) and Design Variables are two exciting Divi 5 features that help you improve your efficiency. As you learn to work with Divi 5, you’ll experience how much quicker every website build becomes. A great way to improve efficiency is by setting Design Variables in the Global …