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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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On this and other blogs, I have a recurring pain in the butt issue. Some people subscribe to a comment thread, and upon every comment following, I get a challenge email from SpamArrest when the notification of a new comment email is sent.
Here’s news: I don’t click the verify link. As a matter of fact, [...]
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The last few days have seen a rash of hacker attacks on WordPress blogs, with isolated reports going back a month or more. Without exception, as far as I can tell, the successful attacks were on blogs running outdated older versions of WordPress. The latest exploits involve hidden admin users and permalinks polluted with javascript [...]
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This isn’t strictly WordPress related, but if you are an avid blogger and use your blog(s) for income, then you might want to check out Jonathan Leger’s My Way Links program.
One thing that we’re all looking for as bloggers is traffic. Lots and lots of traffic. To get that traffic, we have to rank well [...]
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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 [...]
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In my office, I run on a 8mbs cable connection. In other words, about a bazillion times faster than dialup. I don’t pay the extra money for this kind of speed just because I want the technology. I do it because page load times make a difference in my day.
So when I visit your blog, [...]
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Dealing With Duplicate Content Issues on WordPress Comments Pages
by Steve on April 18, 2009
in On WordPress, WordPress plugins
I saw a tweet today about WordPress comment page duplication issues related to SEO. While the word is still out as to just how much damage it does or doesn’t do to your ability to get found by the Great G, this specific problem is relatively easily fixed — and not by disabling the paged [...]
Tagged as: add_action, canonical, comments, cpage, duplicate content, functions.php, get_permalink, google, plugins, wordpress code
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