OREM, Utah, Feb. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Bluehost, part
of Endurance International Group's family of brands and a leading
provider of cloud technology, hosting and web presence solutions,
today announced the development of a new script designed to
continually update WordPress websites and increase site security.
Bluehost's code successfully updated more than 2.5 million
WordPress sites on its platform and has been released to the open
source community.
After determining that a significant number of customers were
running outdated versions of WordPress, Bluehost's development team
created a unique Perl script utilizing WP-CLI (WordPress-Command
Line Interface) and custom code to update WordPress sites going
back to version 1.0.2. Bluehost completed exhaustive tests and
reviews to ensure the script resulted in minimal disruptions or
site downtime.
In this impressive undertaking, 99% of WordPress sites on
Bluehost's platform were upgraded successfully with fewer than
0.007% of customers reporting any issues. Since implementation, the
company has seen a significant 18% reduction in technical support
requests relating to WordPress. Bluehost has further implemented
this new technology to continually update WordPress websites to
ensure customers on its platform enjoy the security of an
up-to-date WordPress site going forward.
In its commitment to supporting WordPress and the open source
community, Bluehost has released this script under the GNU General
Public License (GPLv2). "We feel this is one of the best ways we
can contribute to a safer online environment and provide an
improved WordPress experience for everyone," says James Grierson, Bluehost General Manager.
"Keeping web software up-to-date is the most straightforward way to
secure a site and yet it's often the most neglected. This script
helps make our customers safer and we hope the open source
community leverages it to do the same for anyone who loves
WordPress."
For more information and documentation on the script, visit
http://bluehost.github.io/wp-tools/. For more information about
Bluehost and its commitment to WordPress, see WordPress creator
Matt Mullenweg's praise for Bluehost
in his State of the Word speech here.
About Bluehost
Bluehost, part of the Endurance
International Group, is a leading provider of cloud-based
solutions, including web hosting services, eCommerce tools,
marketing applications, and more. Built on open source, Bluehost
designs and operates its own servers, develops innovative new
internet technologies, and actively supports and participates in
the open source community. For more information, visit
www.bluehost.com.
About Endurance International Group
Endurance
International Group is a publicly traded (NASDAQ: EIGI) technology
company that helps power small and medium-sized businesses online.
Through its proprietary cloud platform, Endurance provides web
presence solutions including web hosting, eCommerce, eMarketing and
mobile business tools to approximately 4.5 million subscribers
around the globe. The company's world-class family of brands
includes Bluehost, HostGator, iPage, Domain.com, A Small Orange,
MOJO Marketplace, BigRock and ResellerClub, among others.
Headquartered in Burlington,
Massachusetts, Endurance employs more than 2,500 people
across the United States in
Utah, Texas, Washington and Arizona and in the United Kingdom, India, Israel
and Brazil. For more information
on how Endurance can help grow your business, visit endurance.com,
follow us on Twitter @EnduranceIntl and like us on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/EnduranceInternational.
Endurance International Group and the compass logo are
trademarks of The Endurance International Group, Inc. Other brand
names of Endurance International Group are trademarks of The
Endurance International Group, Inc. or its subsidiaries.
Press Contact:
Dani
LaSalvia
Endurance International Group
(781) 852-3212
press@endurance.com
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