Just before the weekend, here's the latest WP news for you: WordPress admins will soon have to regularly confirm their email, attackers are currently exploiting a plugin vulnerability and Yoast CEO Marieke van de Rakt discusses diversity and prejudice. We also show you how to save time with accounting software and help you choose the right theme.

- This is the amount that Automattic - the company behind WordPress.com - has raised in a Series D financing round has raised. The sole investor is Salesforce Ventures.

Spoilt for choice - how to find the right WordPress theme

Finding a suitable WordPress theme is not that easy these days. In the official theme directory of wordpress.org alone, there are several thousand free themes to choose from. Jörg Fiedler has some helpful tips and tricks to help you choose the right theme so that you can keep an overview and avoid any nasty surprises later on.

Earning money with blogs: What it really means to make a living from blogging

Well trained and with several years of experience abroad, finding a new job shouldn't be a problem. That's what Daniela Sprung thought when she returned to Germany from Switzerland. But the reality was different. She only received rejections on her applications. This situation led Daniela to start bloggerabc, with which she is now very successful. In her latest article, she reveals what you need to consider if you want to make a living from your blog.

Save time & nerves with accounting software: 6 offers in comparison

For most freelancers and entrepreneurs, bookkeeping is an annoying topic that they actually want to spend as little time on as possible. In order to minimize the amount of work involved, Sven Scheuerle took a look for us at when accounting software makes sense for managing your finances and examined various providers of accounting tools.

WordPress

Put an end to outdated admin emails
From WordPress 5.3, a screen will appear every six months when an admin logs in, asking whether the current email address is still up to date. This measure is intended to prevent important notifications about the website status (Site Health) from being sent to outdated or unknown email addresses. 

Our recap of WordCamp Zurich
Bigger, even more interactive and with lots of exciting sessions: Compared to WordCamp Zurich 2015, the organizers of this year's camp have once again managed to up the ante. In his recap, our colleague Michael reports on grilled hosts, digital nomads and the daily struggle with WooCommerce.

Online Marketing

What do Google's new link attributes mean for SEO?
On September 10, Google announced the new link attributes "sponsored" and "ugc", which are intended to supplement the previous "nofollow". As the news has led to some confusion and misunderstandings among many website operators, the SEO experts at Moz have answered the most important questions about the changes.

Business

Diversity,inequalityand prejudice
Marieke van de Rakt - CEO of Yoast - has published an interesting discussion entitled "Diversity, inequality, and prejudice; a sociological exploration". In it, she not only presents exciting thought experiments, but also reports on her personal experience as a managing director in a male-dominated industry. You can find her article here.

Security

XSS vulnerability in Rich Reviews plugin
A vulnerability in the Rich Reviews plugin, which is active on around 16,000 WordPress websites, is currently being exploited by attackers. The developers of the plugin are already working on an update. Until a new version is available and Rich Reviews is back in the official plugin directory, you should remove it from your WordPress site.

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