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Simplenet is now Kiravo. Same craft, new name.
We’ve got a fresh new name, but the same rock-solid WordPress hosting you trust. Why change the Simplenet brand name? When my wife and I launched Simplenet, I had just left an IT company named Cybernet, and the name Simplenet was a play on that. Also, back then, our focus was to get small businesses…
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Introducing the Simplenet WordPress block theme
We are starting 2025 with a significant achievement: our first WordPress theme, Simplenet, has been accepted into the official WordPress.org repository! This accomplishment holds special meaning for me, considering that I am not a programmer, and the process of creating a theme from scratch has been a true learning adventure. I’ve been working with WordPress…
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WordPress Turns 21—What to Expect Next?
Last year, we wrote an article about WordPress’ 20-year celebration and shared our expectations for its future. We believe that publishing an annual article on WordPress predictions and expectations would greatly interest our readers. Not only does it highlight how WordPress has evolved over the past year, but it also provides a strategic perspective on…
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How to Run WordPress in Your Browser
WordPress Playground is an open-source experiment to provide a running WordPress instance directly in your browser. You no longer need an experimental website on a local development machine to test themes and plugins. I firmly believe there is no more convenient method than WordPress Playground because it runs in your browser and doesn’t require a…
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WordPress Turns 20—What to Expect Next?
WordPress, the leading content management system (CMS) by a significant margin, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. From its humble beginnings as a blogging platform in 2003, WordPress has evolved into a versatile and widely-used tool for creating websites of all types. As we commemorate this milestone, it is worth considering what the future…
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Security issues in the WP GDPR Compliance plugin
Last night we got an email from a friend saying he found some new users with administrator privileges on some of his WordPress websites and asked us to check it out. We started to investigate, and it seems that the websites had a thing in common – the WP GDPR Compliance plugin. It looks like…