6 September 2009 3 Comments

Has your WordPress been hacked?

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 tell [...]

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11 March 2009 0 Comments

Testing Syntax Highlighting with wp-syntax (Geshi)

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
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$name = ‘Paul’;
echo ‘Hello ‘.$name;

10 February 2009 7 Comments

Mollom beats Akismet at blocking spam

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 Mollom [...]

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5 February 2009 1 Comment

Install Wordpress and WP plugins with Subversion

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 have [...]

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