22 Oct 2009 at 11:28 by Andy Towler
Recent attacks have shown that keeping WordPress installations up-to-date is absolutely vital. If you have WordPress installations and they’re not yet running at least 2.8.4, ask yourself why not?
Self-hosted WordPress upgrades are supposed to be really easy, but the “one-click” upgrade process is flawed and only works on certain hosts, and these certain hosts [...]
21 Oct 2009 at 08:07 by Andy Towler
A new version of WordPress has been released. This isn’t the major, extra-improved 2.9 that all WordPress developers are waiting for, but rather a minor interim release to harden existing installations against recent attack methods.
From the WordPress site:-
The headline changes in this release are:
A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being [...]
18 Oct 2009 at 17:09 by Andy Towler
UPDATED 15 NOVEMBER 2009 – VERSION 2.1
Ever wanted to show your tweets in a widget on your WordPress sidebar (as on this site)? Now you can.
This widget used on this site is one that I developed myself, based loosely on other plugins and tutorials (including some borrowed code duly acknowledged in comments), [...]
05 Oct 2009 at 15:21 by Andy Towler
Many articles have been published about the merits (or de-merits) of using “nofollow” links on websites and blogs, especially in comment signatures. Essentially, if a link is “nofollow”, then Google and other search engines will not count it as a “backlink” to the site it links to, thus preventing the site from gaining ranking [...]
20 Sep 2009 at 16:43 by Andy Towler
One of my clients, for whom I designed and built a static HTML website back in 2008, is starting to need updates to it more frequently, as her career as a theatre set and costume designer progresses.
Following my recent emphasis on WordPress-based projects, I decided that a recent set of updates she requested was the [...]