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WordPress

Using Named Anchors

October 17, 2009

Did you know you can use named anchors within your pages to break up your content and make it easier for users to find what they’re looking for more quickly? Google is now using these named anchors and including these links within some search results.

Google is generating these links automatically based on your page structure [...]

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WordPress Attack on Self Hosted Sites

September 6, 2009

This just out, latest nasty attack aimed at self hosted WordPress:
Mashable on the Attack
How to know if you’ve been affected:

In your permalinks, look for additions that looks like:
…eval(base64_decode…
Also check your users, you may have an additional admin user – look for one you don’t recognize.

Read more details at Lorelle’s blog: Old Versions of WordPress Under [...]

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WordPress 2.8.3 Admin Password Security Exploit

August 12, 2009

If you’ve recently upgraded to WordPress 2.8.3, you’ll want to head over to WordPress.org and download the latest update and upgrade your install to 2.8.4. There is a security exploit that allows someone to remotely change your admin password through a special url that’s formed in the right way. It basically removes the current password, [...]

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Troubleshooting Your WordPress

June 12, 2009
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WordPress is simple to use, can be complex behind the scenes – there are so many variables that can cause issues – these are some of the most common.
Sooner or later, you’re bound to run into this situation: you go to your site, prepared to make a post or update a widget and you know [...]

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Setting Up Wordpress for a Guest Post

September 9, 2008

How do I set up Wordpress so a guest author can post, without giving them the keys to the kingdom (blog)?
First, what’s a Guest Post? This is a common thing – and a good way to expand your reach with your audience. A Guest Post is simply a post made to your blog by another [...]

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SEOBook Interviews Matt Mullenweg

September 9, 2008

Aaron Wall at SEOBook interviewed Matt Mullenweg of Wordpress fame. It’s a great interview about how Matt got started and Aaron asks some really great questions.
Of particular interest, to those of you running older versions of Wordpress – is the section about having your site hacked and having spammy links injected into your site. Matt [...]

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Wordpress 2.6.2 Released

September 9, 2008

Wordpress 2.6.2 is out – time to upgrade.
This release includes a workaround related to open registration and using mt_rand() to predict a randomized password. Of note, if you use PHP with the latest Suhosin version, you’re already protected from the full exploit. The biggest changes for this release are found in wp-includes/pluggable.php and changes how [...]

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Wordpress Angel is here.

August 27, 2008

Here it is, the launch of Wordpress Angel. Watch this space for more to come, this is just the beginning.
We’ll be covering Wordpress, plugins, themes and more. Want to do stupid Wordpress tricks? We’ve got some of those too. Frustrated with Wordpress but want to get past that and move on? We’ll also be offering [...]

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