Paul Maunders | Web log

There have been a number of vulnerabilities discovered in WordPress since it started, including one earlier this month. They all have pretty much the same objective: to try to get access to your blog in order to post links to their own sites. In this post I am going to look at ways you can [...]

Recently we were looking for a Flash video player to use on our websites. Youtube’s default player was a little bloated, so one of our developers at Fubra built an alternative youtube flv player, which looks a bit like this: We’ve also released this as a wordpress plugin. You can install it via subversion if [...]

Some bash commands: dig @ns1.fubra.com fubra.it axfr > /root/db.fubra.it vim /root/db.fubra.it Some PHP with line numbers: 10 11 $name = ‘Paul’; echo ‘Hello ‘.$name;

I’ve been using the WordPress Mollom plugin for about 6 months now, and I have say that I’m very impressed. In that time, I can count on one hand the number of spams that have slipped through the net. When I was using Akismet, spam comments were getting through daily. Here are the stats that [...]

It took us a while to work out how you grant additional users the Site Administrator permission in WordPress MU. We were expecting this to be in the users page, but actually it’s hidden on the Site Admin > Options page. However, once you realise where the option is, it’s actually incredibly simple. You simply [...]

If you get a white screen after the Mollom Captcha step when trying to add a comment to your blog, then check your PHP errors logs. I was experiencing this problem, and looking into the logs showed the following: [09-Feb-2009 11:11:53] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_convert_encoding() in /sites/pyrosoft.co.uk/http/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-mollom/wp-mollom.php on line 1371 The [...]

In my opinion, the best way to install WordPress (WP) is by using subversion (svn). This can also be used to install WP plug-ins. Subversion makes it incredibly easy to upgrade / update when future versions of the software is released. You simply run either svn update or svn switch. The following instructions assume you [...]

As you can probably tell from this blog, WordPress is my favourite blogging tool. I’ve been using it for a couple of years now, and during that time I’ve been really impressed by it. So when I was recently asked if a single copy of WordPress could be used to power several blogs, I was [...]

This is my first post using my iPhone. I’ve installed the wordpress app and now I’m typing on the phone itself! First thoughts: it’s great! I was a little concerned that the iphones spell checker wouldn’t work but it does (although not in the post titles). I’ve tried to attach a photo of brendan so [...]

According to Feedburner, at the time of writing I have 44 readers subscribed to my blog’s RSS feed. I have no idea how accurate this is, so I’d like to run a little experiment. If you are a subscriber to this site’s feed please post a comment on this post with your name. If you [...]