By Jeffro on March 9, 2012
Sucuri has published more information regarding the compromising of at least 30,000 domains. Based on their research, they are ruling out the possibility that the attacks are taking advantage of a new vulnerability within the core of WordPress.
The first question is how are these sites getting hacked? On all the cases we analyzed, they either had outdated versions of WordPress, or of a plugin. We can safely rule out any new vulnerability on WordPress itself.
To stay on top of the latest malware threats on the web, you should subscribe to their RSS feed. Perhaps the more people that realize this stuff is happening on a daily basis, the more it will persuade them to keep sites, plugins, and themes updated.
Posted in News | Tagged malware, security, wordpress |
By Jeffro on March 7, 2012
Once again, I want to tell you to not blindly trust theme authors when they say their theme is SEO friendly. “SEO friendly” is just a label they put on their theme and since most of their customers don’t know what to look for to see if it’s actually true, yet know that it’s important, it helps “sell” themes.
Sounds like he’s describing me and I bet a lot of other people as well. Overall, good advice from Joost de Valk with a little bit of self promotion at the end.
Posted in News | Tagged canonical, seo, Themes |
By Jeffro on March 6, 2012
Themergency has a list of WordPress related projects to watch that are using GitHub as their source code repository instead of the traditional Subversion approach. In case you didn’t know it already, WordPress itself is also using GitHub except that it’s being synched every thirty minutes with the Subversion repository and only contains read-only access. Judging by the comments, a number of themes are also using GitHub as their repository. I wonder if this has translated into a more social experience in users contributing back to the original project which is supposedly one of the awesome benefits of using GitHub? ∞
Posted in News | Tagged code, github, links |
By Jeffro on March 5, 2012
Ryan Imel of WPCandy.com recently had the chance to sit down with John James Jacoby to discuss both BuddyPress and bbPress as well as a few other topics. The interview is about an hour long but well worth the listen if you’re at all interested in the two platforms. ∞
Posted in News | Tagged bbPress, BuddyPress, interview |
By Jeffro on March 5, 2012
In what I think is a great service to anyone who operates a website, the security service Sucuri has started to publish articles containing answers to user submitted questions. In their latest installment, they answer some general questions such as why anyone would want to hack your site, what they gain by attacking a website, and how to check if your site is infected, which is of course an advertisement for their free site scanner.
Speaking of their scanner, I checked WPTavern the other day and was relieved to see that the site came up clean. I’ve read too many horror stories from people who have had to try and save compromised websites to know that it’s nothing short of a giant pain in the rear to make sure everything is clean.
Posted in News | Tagged malware, security, sucuri |
By Jeffro on March 1, 2012
This past weekend, I gave my first ever solo talk on WordPress development, with just a hint of UI love. I’ve taught classes on web/digital media and talk to/perform in front of lots of people all the time, but this was my first ever “stand up in front of a room of geeks and go”. It was awesome. I think I kicked ass. My code got the once-over and blessings of some developers that I and many others respect very, very much. And you know one of the comments I got over and over? “It’s amazing/surprising/something-allegedly-positive-but-expressing-a-contradiction-to-perception to see a female developer.” 5
Guess what.
That’s not a helpful comment
An interesting read from an Asian, female WordPress developer and how people like her shouldn’t be viewed as an anomaly.
Posted in News | Tagged developers, women, wordpress |
By Jeffro on February 29, 2012
Related to a new project Joost de Valk is working on, he needs WordPress users to fill out a short survey that tells him which WordPress hosting company you use, which package you’re on, and what you think about them. Joost will compile this information to determine which webhostng companies support WordPress properly and will reach out to them to perform a couple of tests. Joost is specifically looking for those hosting in Europe as it appears that finding a good host in Europe is more difficult than here in the U.S. ∞
Posted in News | Tagged joost, survey, webhosting |
By Jeffro on February 28, 2012
As tweeted by MarkMcWilliams, some of the theme customization options for the TwentyTwelve theme have landed into WordPress 3.4.
Posted in News | Tagged options, Themes, wordpress |
By Jeffro on February 27, 2012
Blogger will soon contain redirects to country-code URLs or ccTLD’s for all Blogger sites except for custom domains. For example, if you’re in Australia and viewing [blogname].blogspot.com, you might be redirected to [blogname].blogspot.com.au. A ccTLD, when it appears, corresponds with the country of the reader’s current location. This causes an issue with IntenseDebate through the Blogger widget installation as different sets of comments will display depending on which ccTLD readers visit. They are strongly recommending that you move from the Blogger Widget installation to their Template installation which already addresses the necessary changes. Pay special attention to their instructions when making the move so you don’t lose any of your existing comments.
Posted in News | Tagged blogger, comments, intensedebate |
By Jeffro on February 23, 2012
It’s been awhile since we’ve had a discussion revolving around those three magic letters GPL. It looks like we’ll be talking about it again considering that somewhere around 500 plugins run the risk of being purged due to their incompatibility with GPLv2. There has been an ongoing discussion within the past 11 months regarding various licenses and what is and is not compatible with what WordPress uses. It looks like the core team has been monitoring the discussion considering Andrew Nacins comment:
The core team plans to discuss plugin directory licensing once none of us are sick or traveling. So, expect an update here in the next week or so.
The arguments have been laid out, so no need to continue to do so. Not trying to stifle discussion, but, you have all made your points.
Jane Wells also participated in the tract ticket discussion:
I would think we would want everything on wordpress.org to have consistent and compatible licensing. If we’ve moved away from that, is Matt aware of it? (I wasn’t.) He’s always said in the past that anything promoted (including being hosted) on wordpress.org needs to be 100% GPL, and said that no one should ever have to wonder what they can/can’t do with something we host, because the license would be the same/compatible.
I also think the end goal for WordPress.org would be for consistency across the site with regards to licensing. No one should have to guess or worry about which license a particular piece of code is using if it’s being hosted by WordPress.org. At the end of the day though, it looks like license consistency is easier said than done.
*Update*
Until the guidelines have been thoroughly reviewed and discussed amongst the core team, Plugins that violate the current guideline but are compatible with GPLv3 will not be de-listed.
Posted in News | Tagged gpl, licensing, Plugins, repository |
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By Jeffro on February 27, 2012
Blogger will soon contain redirects to country-code URLs or ccTLD’s for all Blogger sites except for custom domains. For example, if you’re in Australia and viewing [blogname].blogspot.com, you might be redirected to [blogname].blogspot.com.au. A ccTLD, when it appears, corresponds with the country of the reader’s current location. This causes an issue with IntenseDebate through the Blogger widget installation as different sets of comments will display depending on which ccTLD readers visit. They are strongly recommending that you move from the Blogger Widget installation to their Template installation which already addresses the necessary changes. Pay special attention to their instructions when making the move so you don’t lose any of your existing comments.
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