[LINK] WordPress

[Stephen Edgar]

David,

A few companies I can think of the top of my head that use WordPress:

- New York Times
- News UK
- Red Bull
- PlayStation
- Siemens
- Fairfax Media (Now Nine Entertainment)
- Google
- News Corp Australia
- USA Today
- Spotify
- Microsoft
- The Sun
- Facebook
- CNN

As to security and privacy, all good there too

- Security updates are timely and with vulnerabilities 99% of the time disclosed responsibly and credited in the updated release notes: https://wordpress.org/news/category/security/
- Privacy is GDPR Compliant, more can be read at https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-privacy/
- More on these topics at https://wordpress.org/support/category/security/

As per my bio below, I've been involved with WordPress for ~15 years now, so there's an obvious bias, but I think it's ok, I've staked my career on it and work with WordPress full time with the company I work for with some of the clients above that I mentioned.


Cheers,
 
Stephen Edgar
WordPress Build Tools Maintainer
http://profiles.wordpress.org/netweb
https://twitter.coim/netweb
 

On 13/10/20, 10:48 am, "Link on behalf of Christian Heinrich" <link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au on behalf of christian.heinrich at cmlh.id.au> wrote:

    David,

    On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 at 10:24, David Lochrin <dlochrin at aussiebb.com.au> wrote:
    > I'd like to ask Linkers whether anyone has recent experience of WordPress,
    > especially regarding security, and possibly privacy?
    >
    > I believe it's written in PHP which has a terrible record of security issues over the
    > years, possibly because it's so easy to write bad code.  (I taught myself PHP
    > because it was so popular with students!)

    Facebook is also based on PHP :)

    https://wordpress.org/support/article/faq-my-site-was-hacked/ is their advice.


    -- 
    Regards,
    Christian Heinrich

    http://cmlh.id.au/contact
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