After updating the theme of the compromised site, removing TimThumb completely and the site I look after still had issues.  I hadn’t noticed but other users were getting warnings in Chrome and being redirected to various affiliate sites.  The worst was that the site seemed to have been removed from Google so the hits dropped rapidly.
I spotted the redirect going to counter-wordpress.com and then did some internet searching, which brought me to a great thread about cleaning it up.  Using Sucuri SiteCheck I was directed to the source of …

As I read through my tech news a few weeks ago I took note of a TimThumb vulnerability that allowed bad people to do bad things to your website.  Recommended solution was to replace TimThumb.php with the latest version available online.  A lot of WordPress themes use TimThumb to auto resize images for front pages and the like.  Shortly thereafter I received an email from Elegant Themes advising to update all their themes to the latest version which now did not employ TimThumb, then make sure TimThumb.php and it’s cache …

After implementing individual user accounts on WordPress contributors now submitted their posts for review and an editor reviews and posts it.  Unfortunately there isn’t an automated notification built into WordPress to let editors know there’s a post waiting.  Luckily there’s a plugin for that: Pending Post Notifier.

It’s very straightforward: enter the email addresses separated by a comma in the Notification Receiver box.

The WordPress site I was working on had an issue with images: if the option to link to file, File URL, wasn’t clicked when adding the image it would default incorrectly to the post and clicking on an image would result in a 404 error.  This was annoying since multiple contributors were adding posts and images and while you can tell people how to do things there are some who never follow directions.

Multiple internet searches led me to a WordPress options page that doesn’t show up on the menu at …

I’ve been working on a WordPress powered website recently, implementing a lot of features.  The first item was to stop everyone using the admin login and create unique logins for everyone with properly assigned roles.  Here’s how WordPress breaks down roles:

Super Admin – Someone with access to the blog network administration features controlling the entire network (See Create a Network).
Administrator – Somebody who has access to all the administration features
Editor – Somebody who can publish and manage posts and pages as well as manage other users’ posts, …

I’ve been running two WordPress sites for several years on 1 & 1 web hosting.  Last year I made a major restructuring of eBabble and in doing so created a new SQL 5 database to keep it separate.  Early this year on eBabble Art I received an error when trying to upgrade WordPress past 2.8.2: that was the last version that would work on a SQL 4 database.  It wasn’t a big deal so I left it at version 2.8.2 and kept going.

With WordPress 3.0 released I decided to finally move eBabble Art to a new …

Backupify is a new online service that backs up your online services and is free to sign up until January 31st 2010.  They provide backup services built on Amazon’s Web Services and supports a range of services including WordPress, Blogger, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Google Docs and many more.  Since you can never have too many backups and free is the magic price I signed up.

I was mostly interested in backing up WordPress since I have this site and art.ebabble.net.  It seemed simple enough: add a plug-in and validate the account.  …

This site is made possible because of WordPress.  I had started eBabble.net with NetObjects Fusion many years ago but wanted to move to a platform that would let me add and edit content from anywhere.  My first attempts were with CMS platforms but I couldn’t get the hang of them and somehow managed to stumble upon WordPress.  With every version it becomes easier to use and the plugin community grows: you can pretty much accomplish whatever you’d like with WordPress.
With version 2.8 WordPress has made three big ease of use …

Early this week one of my plugins had an upgrade available but when I clicked to upgrade automatically I received the following: Error 500 – Internal Server Error.  Didn’t give it much thought and tried to log into this site last night and after entering my credentials received the same error: now it was serious.
Searching for the error uncovered one possible fix indicating PHP is running out of memory.  To increase on an ISP that doesn’t give direct access to PHP is to create a PHP.INI file with this line …

I’ve just updated my sites with WordPress 2.1 and I’m impressed with the changes.  Little things here and there, plus notables like major editor reworking and autosave.  If you’re running a WordPress site update now to version 2.1 and enjoy the free software.
WordPress 2.1