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14 Mar 2014

WordPress on WordPress crime

Tags: 000, 160k, DDos, hack, Sucuri, Wordpress
Written by Micah Warren, Posted in Wordpress | Comments Off

Tweet When you are a large content management system (CMS) that supports roughly 19% of the internet, people are going to come after you. Nothing invites hacking like popularity. It’s a large reason why years ago I always felt safe having a Mac. No one messed with it because way more people had PC’s. This is the case with WordPress. So many websites run on it that it’s worth it for hackers to jack it. Recently, they even used WordPress features to attack another very popular WordPress site (they wouldn’t say which one), according to the web security firm Sucuri. […]

05 Aug 2013

Remove the WordPress Payday Loans hack!

Tags: functions.php, hack, header.php, payday loans hack, Wordpress
Written by Micah Warren, Posted in Wordpress | Comments Off

Tweet If you’re on WordPress, you may have already experienced this. It is a colossal pain in the back side. There have been a couple payday loans hacks where links to a site for (you guessed it) payday loans show up in your site. fast cash advance payday loans They can show up in the header or in single posts, but they dig those suckers in and they are tough to find and eradicate. Until now. Here are a couple of good hiding spots that you can check before you go sign up for some service that cleans and protects […]

07 Sep 2012

WordPress 3.4.2 is out

Tags: available, Wordpress, Wordpress 3.4.2
Written by Micah Warren, Posted in Internet, Wordpress | Comments Off

Tweet If you were having some security issues with your WordPress blog or website, fear not. The newest version, WordPress 3.4.2 is now available for download and WP claims that they’ve fixed some security bugs. From their website: -Fix some issues with older browsers in the administration area. -Fix an issue where a theme may not preview correctly, or its screenshot may not be displayed. -Improve plugin compatibility with the visual editor. -Address pagination problems with some category permalink structures. -Avoid errors with both oEmbed providers and trackbacks. -Prevent improperly sized header images from being uploaded. If you use WordPress […]

14 Jun 2012

WordPress 3.4 “Green” released

Tags: 3.4, Green, now available, twitter embed, Wordpress
Written by Micah Warren, Posted in Internet, Twitter, Wordpress | Comments Off

Tweet This is the kind of stuff we get excited about because we’re a bit nerdy at times. WordPress has just released the newest version of their popular content management system (CMS), WordPress 3.4 “Green.” Nicknamed after jazz master Grant Green, the new version has some neat new options. You can play with themes in real time before making them live, trick out your header and view the changes in real time, embed tweets easily and beautifully and much, much more. In short, there are enough new features to play with that we’re pretty excited to try them out. Some […]

13 Dec 2011

WordPress version 3.3 is now available!

Tags: 3.3, Wordpress
Written by Micah Warren, Posted in Blogging, Internet, Wordpress | Comments Off

Tweet If you’re into using WordPress as a CMS and/or blogging platform, these are fun days. Days when a new version of the popular platform hits the streets. Or should I say, “shows up as an icon at the top of your dashboard.” We mentioned previously that WordPress version 3.3 was available for beta testers in October, well now it’s available to everyone. Some features that I’m already digging: using this warranty dealers -When you hover over an option on the left side of the dashboard, it automatically brings up the entire sub menu for that option. Doesn’t sound like […]

05 Dec 2011

WordPress to add PPC ads

Tags: advertisements, PPC, Wordpress
Written by Micah Warren, Posted in Advertising, Blogging, Internet, Marketing, Wordpress | Comments Off

Tweet People who use the WordPress blogging platform have been complaining for years that WordPress hosting doesn’t allow you to have ads on your blog. Now, if you got your own hosting, you can do whatever you want. But if you’re hosted on WordPress, you can’t have ads. But, that is be changing. WordPress has partnered with Federated Media to allow blogs to have PPC advertisements on them. You still have to meet preset requirements, but the fact that you’ll be able to have ads at all is a big step. Jon Burke, from WordPress, explains it on his blog: […]

07 Jul 2011

How to add the Google +1 button to your site

Tags: Google, Google +1 button, Wordpress
Written by Micah Warren, Posted in Google, Internet | Comments Off

Tweet So, by now you’ve heard about Google+ and the +1 button that shows up next to Google search results. This is obviously a way of “liking” a certain search result, and it’s there to help others make better clicking choices (that’s really not worded properly, but you get the gist). If you see that some of your friends really liked a certain search result, it might help steer you in the right direction. But, you can also add the +1 button right on your site so people can “plus” it there. But how do you do it? Well, you […]

25 May 2011

WordPress 3.1.3 released

Tags: 3.1.3, Wordpress
Written by Lindsey Gardner, Posted in Blogging, Wordpress | Comments Off

Tweet If you are a WordPress user, then you need to log into your account and upgrade to the newest version of the CMS. That’s right, WP 3.1.3 has been released. Here are the juicy details straight from WordPress.org: Various security hardening by Alexander Concha. -Taxonomy query hardening by John Lamansky. -Prevent sniffing out user names of non-authors by using canonical redirects. Props Verónica Valeros. -Media security fixes by Richard Lundeen of Microsoft, Jesse Ou of Microsoft, and Microsoft Vulnerability Research. – Improves file upload security on hosts with dangerous security settings. -Cleans up old WordPress import files if the […]

27 Apr 2011

WordPress 3.1.2 is out

Tags: 3.1.2, Wordpress
Written by Micah Warren, Posted in Blogging, Wordpress | Comments Off

Tweet Am I the only one that gets excited when new WordPress updates are released? Even when it’s something as simple as a security fix and doesn’t even offer cool new features? Yeah, I know, I’m a dork. But yeah, WordPress 3.1.2 has been released and yes, it’s security based. No new cool features for us. But it does fix the problem in 3.1.1 where apparently contributor-level users could post content. I can see how that’s a problem. Everyone is encouraged to make the update as soon as possible. So get on that.

30 Dec 2010

Upgrade to WordPress 3.0.4

Tags: Security, Websites, Wordpress, Wordpress 3.0.4
Written by Micah Warren, Posted in Blogging, Wordpress | Comments Off

Tweet There is a new version of WordPress available and it’s pretty important that you go out and upgrade. The new version, 3.0.4, has a security update to fix a bug in the previous versions. Apparently, there was a flaw in KSES, which is used in “lots of places” according to WordPress chief Matt Mullenweg. You used to be able to hack into different parts of WordPress sites if you just changed a few letters from lowercase to uppercase. You’d also have to be quite a jerk and have time on your hands. So, now the security fix is out […]

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