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Wordspew Plugin has security vulnerability

| February 9, 2008 | 0 Comments

Secunia has reported an "id" SQL injection vulnerability in the WordSpew plugin for WordPress. Here's the description of the vulnerability: DESCRIPTION: S@BUN has reported a vulnerability in the Wordspew plugin for Wordpress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks. Input ... View Post

Easily add unwidgetized WordPress plugins to widgetized sidebar with Custom Function Widgets plugin

| February 8, 2008 | 2 Comments

One of the reasons I hesitated to use widgets is because there are many useful plugins that aren't widgets and demand that you add a snippet of code to your sidebar, something you can't really do with widgets. Well, now you can widgetize your sidebar and add both widgets and non-widget plugins to it with ... View Post

Great tips for finding and modifying images for your blog

| February 7, 2008 | 0 Comments

Oak Innovations has a great guide to finding and editing images for use on your blog. The guide goes through copyright issues, licenses, and sources for finding images, and then introduces Picnik, an online image editor. Since reading this ... View Post

Is WordPress’ security vulnerable at its core?

Miriam Schwab | February 6, 2008 | 5 Comments

To my chagrin, my blog is telling me that it's time to upgrade again. A new version of WordPress is available! Please update now.

It's an urgent security release because if you allow registration on your WordPress blog, users can edit other users' drafts. WordPress development also mentions the ... View Post

Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan: WordPress in Kazakh

| February 6, 2008 | 4 Comments

Poor Kazakhstan. It's going to take them a long time to live down the image of their country that was created in Borat. However, despite the damage inflicted by Borat, I recently saw a news item on how the Kazakh economy is growing at a steady pace. So it seems that they've ... View Post

Using WordPress comments as a contact form

| February 4, 2008 | 3 Comments

Justin Tadlock has posted a way to use built-in WordPress comments in lieu of a contact form. Basically, you replace your theme's current comments.php file with the one that Justin offers for downloading that checks if a page is called "Contact." If it is, the ... View Post

SphinnCon Israel to feature great panelists from Google, TechCrunch, Yedda, and more

| February 1, 2008 | 0 Comments

SphinnCon Israel is this coming Tuesday in Jerusalem, and will have a great panel of experts on search and internet marketing, including representatives from Google, TechCrunch, Yedda, and Kenshoo. Read my post ... View Post

WordPress upgrade nightmare and lessons learned

Miriam Schwab | January 31, 2008 | 8 Comments

I just spent five hours trying to save WordPress Garage and another site of mine, but some of the damage is irrevocable. Here's the story of this nightmare, and what I've learned: I have a site that was running on WordPress version 2.2. I hadn't bothered to upgrade since we had stopped publishing on it ... View Post

Park your new domain with the LaunchPad WordPress parking theme

| January 29, 2008 | 0 Comments

Here’s a new and interesting WordPress theme idea: LaunchPad is a WordPress theme for people who like to buy domain names, but don’t always put a site on them right away. On many hosts, if you don’t create a site, your domain name hosts a page full of ads for them. LaunchPad ... View Post

Find out how much your domain and site are worth with dnScoop.com

| January 29, 2008 | 1 Comment

I think that dnScoop.com is more of a vanity tool than something really useful, but it’s fun anyways. According to the dnscoop.com About page, “dnScoop.com attempts to estimate a value for an established website or a domain name by using factors such as: