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Over the last few days, I’ve been reading a number of articles which have seriously questioned the future of Wordpress after a nasty worm did the rounds, exposing anyone with an outdated version of Wordpress. If anything, Scoble’s account of the hack was a firm reminder to make backups and keep on top of upgrades. Nothing really new here. Like anything popular, you become a target for these sorts of security hacks and Wordpress is no exception. Wordpress will keep going strong – it’s still the best and most flexible blogging tool out there that I can find.

What is more of a growing concern for me are the thousands of Wordpress plugins out there that people readily install and use without any idea about the level of security and quality of coding that is provided. It’s fantastic that there’s such a flourishing plethora of plugins which do just about everything, but what is missing is some form of quality assurance – a way of verifying (as much as possible) that the code is safe and not resource-hogging if you have high traffic or a large database of content. As more and more businesses rely on Wordpress to run their websites, being able to have some peace of mind about the plugins (and themes) is going to be essential.