Not to put too fine a point on it but I'm more than a little freaked out. As an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to write a plugin that could save my wife some time with managing her website. I wrote a ...

This means all sentences with a shortcode (i.e. “let’s go get some :sushi:”) will be converted in-line. The service also lets emoji creators apply copyright locks, which means developers can’t use ...

A cross-site scripting (XSS) is one of the most frequent kind of vulnerability. In the context of WordPress plugins, XSS vulnerabilities happen when a plugin has a way to input data that isn’t ...

Editor’s Note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online ...

A recent WordPress security update featuring multiple security fixes is also causing some sites to stop functioning, causing one developer to exclaim, “This is chaos!!” The update removed a key ...

A few months ago, author and YouTuber John Green published a video entitled “Am I Cigarettes?” In the video, he analogizes using the internet to smoking — and content creators to the addictive ...