Skip to content
  • Home
  • About Mitch
  • Speaking
  • Articles
  • Contact
  • Home
  • About Mitch
  • Speaking
  • Articles
  • Contact

Digital Strategist

WordPress Developer

Content Creator

Unapologetic Punk

Mitch Canter

  • Threads
  • Instagram
  • Bluesky
  • LinkedIn
  • GitHub
  • Twitch
  • YouTube
WordPress

Go Update W3 Total Cache, WPTouch, and AddThis RIGHT NOW!

CMDR Mitchcraft

Reading time: 1 minute

If you’ve updated your plugins in the last 24 hours, go straight back into your website and do it again – there’s a chance you may have downloaded some infected plugins that were hacked into the repository.

According to WordPress.org, the plugins AddThis, W3 Total Cache, and WPTouch were infected with a backdoor that lets people into your site.  The plugins are fixed now, and if you update you can remove the infected code immediately.

Normally those plugins are safe, and (given the  hacks and the frequent downtime by other companies) it’s nice to see a company like WordPress that can think on its heels and get the hacks solved in minutes (and not weeks – I’m looking at you Sony).

  • The State of WordPress Plugin Development

    The State of WordPress Plugin Development

    Reading time: 4 minutes

    Seeing all the fun plugins you guys posted to the site today has reminded me of a topic that I’ve both seen published on other sites as of late and been pondering myself lately – the authors.  I’ve co-created a plugin, and it’s currently residing well in the plugin repository, but it hasn’t been all…

    WordPress
  • WP-Migrate-DB: Migrating a WordPress Installation in 5 Easy Steps

    WP-Migrate-DB: Migrating a WordPress Installation in 5 Easy Steps

    Reading time: 3 minutes

    If you’re a WordPress developer, migrating a finished development project can be one of the trickiest parts.  There’s moving parts in many places that have to be taken into consideration, and migration is (unfortunately) where WordPress actually could use some improvement.  However, it’s a necessary evil – one that I’ve done almost daily for a…

    WordPress