The same project that led to the post Loading WordPress From index.php involved cleaning up after a hacking incident. In fact, that’s what the initial work order was for.
This blog was hit recently by the same attack that has been in the news for the last few days. Lorelle on Wordpress wrote some things about [...]
Tagged as:
hack attack,
malicious files
One of WordPress’ strengths is its attention to SEO-related issues in its core files. One of those issues is the problem of having the home page of the blog indexed twice in the search engines; once under the actual address, http://domain-name.com/index.php, and the other as the plain domain name: http://domain-name.com. Note that this is a [...]
Tagged as:
duplicate content,
index files,
url rewriting,
wordpress redirect
I had a client call up over the weekend in a panic because her blog disappeared.
“Help! All I see is a blank screen!”
“What’s the last thing you did?” says I.
“Updated my theme files,” says she.
So after an hour’s worth of troubleshooting, I found the problem:
Plugin and theme developers: please do us all a favor and [...]
WordPress is, at its most basic, very simple. It is a PHP script that displays a blog entry, or series of entries based on information contained in the URL. The display is controlled by PHP files that collectively make up a theme.
A Basic Theme
WordPress themes contain at least two files: index.php and style.css. The file [...]