--- title: Best WordPress posts of 2022 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted WordPress posts of 2022, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/wordpress/best-of/2022 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/wordpress/best-of/2022 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best WordPress posts of 2022 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted WordPress posts of 2022, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of WordPress — 2022 1. 1 [](/posts/hacking-for-beginners-exploiting-open-ports-it2vud-ic "Hacking for Beginners: Exploiting Open Ports") Article System Weakness · 4y Hacking for Beginners: Exploiting Open Ports Metasploit is an easy-to-use tool that has a database of exploits which you can easily query. The next step is to try and exploit some open ports on one of Hack the Box’s machines. The vulnerability allows an unauthenticated user to view private or draft posts due to an issue within WP\_Query. 56 1 2. 2 [](/posts/musk-buys-twitter-4i6he16-r "Musk buys Twitter") Article Torque · 4y Musk buys Twitter A good way to start is to sign up for our weekly newsletter. We keep you up to date by bringing you the freshest WordPress content from the brightest minds in the industry. How do you stay on top of your WordPress game? Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. 43 3 3. 3 [](/posts/5-reasons-why-i-chose-ghost-to-build-a-self-hosted-website-2grdnudxs "5 Reasons why I chose Ghost to Build a Self Hosted Website") Article Noted · 4y 5 Reasons why I chose Ghost to Build a Self Hosted Website The Self Hosting community seems to love static site generators but I ain't got time for that. I can blame my age (40) and use the excuse I'm getting old and need visual references, buttons and pretty UI's right? There are forks out there for a static version of Ghost but you will sacrifice many features. 42 2 4. 4 [](/posts/mr-robot-ctf-tutorial-ilsa5mbtb "Mr. Robot CTF Tutorial") Article System Weakness · 4y Mr. Robot CTF Tutorial Mr. Robot CTF Tutorial TryHackMe is a free tutorial on how to make a robot using a nmap scan. The first step is to run a gobuster scan and find directories that are allowed us to visit so i went to them. 33 5. 5 [](/posts/how-to-reduce-cloud-costs-we-went-from-30k-to-2k-7pbyev390 "How to reduce cloud costs? We went from $30k to $2k") Article The Software House · 5y How to reduce cloud costs? We went from $30k to $2k A UK-based business was paying $30,000 a month in cloud storage costs. The company had 25 servers running over 1,000 WordPress websites. The increase in traffic affected parts of the system that were not created by us. The Software House helped make the conversion possible, delivering a new app at a record pace. 27 1 6. 6 [](/posts/www-vs-non-www-which-is-better-for-seo--ikrz0fsnu "WWW vs non-WWW: Which is Better for SEO?") Article Community Picks · 4y WWW vs non-WWW: Which is Better for SEO? For most of the history of the internet, most websites used a “www” prefix followed by a domain name. The WWW prefix is used to help identify a web address or location. Modern browsers are starting to hide the www part of websites in the search bar. This means fewer redirects occur when using non-www URLs for sites with plenty of direct traffic. 21 4 7. 7 [](/posts/php-performance-across-versions-j-io2yi3 "PHP performance across versions") Article stitcher.io · 4y PHP performance across versions I did some casual benchmarks on a WordPress installation from PHP 5.6 tot PHP 8.1, here are the results. Noticed a tpyo? You can submit a PR to fix it. If you want to stay up to date about what's happening on this blog, follow me on Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter. 21 8. 8 [](/posts/the-best-tools-and-resources-for-web-designers-in-2022-ahdnjsu6e "The Best Tools and Resources for Web Designers in 2022") Article SitePoint · 5y The Best Tools and Resources for Web Designers in 2022 There are countless new web design and web development tools released every day. Many designers prefer to use no-code tools, which enable them to do everything faster and easier than ever before. The Total WordPress theme allows you to build any page layout you want without being bothered by any restrictions or limitations. 20 9. 9 [](/posts/45-web-design-industry-statistics-and-latest-trends-for-2022-v52xtfag "45+ Web Design Industry Statistics and Latest Trends for 2022") Article WordPress Beginner · 4y 45+ Web Design Industry Statistics and Latest Trends for 2022 Currently, there are around 1.14 billion websites in the world. 17% of these websites are active, and 83% will leave a site because of outlandish colors. Only 18% of consumers look at a website’s font styles when visiting their pages for the first time. 18 10. 10 [](/posts/what-is-headless-wordpress-should-you-use-it--lkkdntpdd "What is Headless WordPress & Should You Use It?") Article SNIPCART · 5y What is Headless WordPress & Should You Use It? W3Techs: WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world, powering 43.3% of the world’s websites. WordPress is built as a monolithic platform with a tightly coupled front and backend. Going headless unlocks a variety of new opportunities for WordPress developers by opening the door for new frameworks, tech stacks, and delivery channels. 18 1 11. 11 [](/posts/thank-you-2022-edition-css-tricks-dfplaqsx9 "Thank You (2022 Edition) | CSS-Tricks") Article CSS-Tricks · 4y Thank You (2022 Edition) | CSS-Tricks The first one was published in 2007, the same year CSS-Tricks began, and it continued all the way through 2021 without missing a beat. This is the last post we’re publishing this year as we hang up our Gone Fishin’ sign for the holidays. We published a wayyyy less content this year. 15 1 12. 12 [](/posts/codewp-ai---ai-wordpress-code-generator-wpt1tny2c "CodeWP AI - AI WordPress Code Generator") Article Product Hunt · 4y CodeWP AI - AI WordPress Code Generator The best of Product Hunt, everyday Web3 keep up to date with the latest in web3\. Find the best tech events around the world Changelog Release notes from the Product Hunt team Office hours. 15 2 13. 13 [](/posts/what-i-learned-from-building-websites-after-a-10-year-freelancing-hiatus-9v5bjnbts "What I learned from building websites after a 10-year freelancing hiatus") Article Hashnode · 5y What I learned from building websites after a 10-year freelancing hiatus Ten years ago I worked as a freelancer building websites with WordPress. I created custom Designs/Templates with Photoshop, HTML, PHP, and CSS. CSS got so much easier yet so much complicated! Back then we could only dream about that. Back then it was a “nice to have” but “we don't want to pay a lot for it” 15 14. 14 [](/posts/mr-robot-ctf-tryhackme-nph6mhenm "Mr Robot CTF | TryHackMe") Article System Weakness · 4y Mr Robot CTF | TryHackMe Mr. Robot CTF is a Mr. Robot-themed room on TryHackMe. It involves basic recon and it will give you a start on WordPress vulnerabilities if you are new to Web exploitation (WordPress Vulnerability → Reverse Shell) Here is the link for the box if you want to follow along:https://tryhackme.com/room/mrrobot.Machine Used: Kali Linux. 13 15. 15 [](/posts/how-to-install-lomp-stack-on-ubuntu-dkbyzz2i "How to Install LOMP Stack on Ubuntu") Article Linux Handbook · 4y How to Install LOMP Stack on Ubuntu A LOMP stack is a group of open-source software that is typically installed together to enable a server to host dynamic websites and web applications. This tutorial will show you how to install a LEMP stack on an Ubuntu 22.04 server. MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for the MySQL database server. These options include removing anonymous users, disallowing remote root login, and removing the test databases, etc. 12 16. 16 [](/posts/10-actionable-image-optimization-hacks-to-try-now-faji9ulto "10 Actionable Image Optimization Hacks to Try Now") Article WP Mayor · 4y 10 Actionable Image Optimization Hacks to Try Now Google’s image sitemap guidelines say that you can choose to either include your images and posts all in the same sittingemap or create a separate sitemaps for images. Use an Image Content Delivery Network to help you load images much faster. 11 1 17. 17 [](/posts/what-s-coming-in-wordpress-6-0-features-and-screenshots--xptxg5qtk "What’s Coming in WordPress 6.0 (Features and Screenshots)") Article WordPress Beginner · 4y What’s Coming in WordPress 6.0 (Features and Screenshots) WordPress 6.0 Beta arrived a few days ago, and it is expected to be released on May 24th, 2022\. It will be the second major release of 2022 and will come with many new features and improvements. We have been closely monitoring the development and trying out new features on our test sites. 11 18. 18 [](/posts/15-awesome-tools-and-resources-for-designers-and-agencies-in-2022-c4muj6dus "15 Awesome Tools and Resources for Designers and Agencies in 2022") Article Codrops · 5y 15 Awesome Tools and Resources for Designers and Agencies in 2022 This list includes 15 top tools and resources for designers and agencies. Be is the biggest WordPress and WooCommerce theme of them all with its 240,000+ strong customer base. 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