From the monthly archives:
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 Without exception, as far as I can tell, the successful attacks were on blogs running outdated older versions of WordPress.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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I don’t restart my computer very often; it mostly runs 24/7. So when I did have occasion to do a restart, I was hit with the issue that my development instance of Apache wouldn’t start. I would get the error: “Windows could not start Apache 2.2 on Local Computer. For more information, review the System [...]
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