Salesforce Ventures invested $300M in Automattic while Salesforce was building a CMS

In September, Salesforce Ventures, the venture of arm of Salesforce, announced a hefty $300 million investment in Automattic, the company behind WordPress, the ubiquitous content management system (CMS). At the same time, the company was putting the finishing touches on Salesforce CMS, an in-house project it released last week. The question is, why did it […] Continue reading Salesforce Ventures invested $300M in Automattic while Salesforce was building a CMS

WordPress site request to /wp-includes/Text/Diff/ yields open directory listing

Someone requested my site’s (Wordpress/Apache) ‘includes’ directory:

122.51.0.219 – – [03/Oct/2019:18:36:15] “GET /wp-includes/Text/Diff/ HTTP/1.1” 200 736 “-” “-”

Noticing the 200 response, I hit the URL myself and found … Continue reading WordPress site request to /wp-includes/Text/Diff/ yields open directory listing