Archive for the ‘Wordpress’ Category

What to do with DavidNaylor.co.uk ?

I’m sick of the design and want to add more fun stuff, tools, services and upcoming projects.

So what do I do, My gut feeling is pull it all down re-design, re-structure and start again, 301 all the old urls, I love blogging and messing around but

I think it’s time I move certain sections into personal and work. I know I hate going to a work related blog only to find that they have blogged about pizza or their new car ;)

But the internet isn’t about gut feelings it’s about user’s, so what do you reckon.

DaveN

Wordpress Exploit and Dreamhost

Added : http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5570 not a patch but a fix

If you have the last unpatched wordpress 2.2 there is a problem in the xml-rpc module, people if they have a valid username and password can use an SQL Injection exploit. The common usage has been adding hidden links into the template was control of your blog has been lost to the bad guys

Also Dreamhost leaked 3500 FTp username and passwords, so IF you have WP or hosted on dreamhost.

a) Check you source code for hidden links that aren’t your ;)
b) Check the HTaccess file for any odd entries, like a 310 to Bad guys site on you ranking pages
c) Check your robots.txt… yes some idiots thinks it funny to hack you server and block all spiders !!
d) Check for proxy scripts that may have been installed on your server

DaveN

Jason Roe, Thanks for the Heads up

would have been nice if Wordpress had told me thou !! read what jason roe

had to say about a small issue with WP 2.0

DaveN

My Wordpress Is Going Nuts

I’m not sure what’s going on at the moment but for some reason in the last week or so it seems that all of the comments on my blog are going straight into moderation… even “proper” comments?

All can do is apologise if the comments that you make take ages to appear, but I have to trawl through all the spam that I get and spot the real posts to approve them.

I will be hopefully upgrading my Wordpress to get this sorted….

DaveN

Please Mr Scoble !!!

Please, please stop this madness .. you’re a bright man, a clever man, so why … jump out of the fire in to the frying pan ( uk saying )

Roberts blog was here -> http://scoble.weblogs.com/

on Sunday, November 27, 2005 he moved to here http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/

For the love of god get your own domain man !!! and stick with it .. at least then when people follow links they can find you !! you have over 29,000 links to > http://scoble.weblogs.com/ … what if weblogs.com decide that because you have stopped using it to just redirect it to the homepage ;) ( tip to weblogs) …

DaveN

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