Life, The Universe, and WordPress
In a curious turn of events I was recently interviewed by Dane Morgan of Blogstrokes. Dane posed a lot of great questions, resulting in answers such as:
Giraffes… hmmm, I’ll make it orange.
Should you wish to check out the interview then head on over to the interview page.
Version 3.1.4 of HeadSpace2 brings with it:
In an effort to remove all invalid links and redirections from my site I’ve been paying very close attention to my access logs. Courtesy of the list that Redirection maintains I’ve noticed that my site has been under a prolonged attack.
No, there’s no panic just yet, and so far this is not something I’m worried about. The attacks appear to be part of a general ‘find any weakness in any website’ method, rather than a specific and directed attack. Let me give some details of the URLs that are being accessed:
/plugins/spamx/MTBlackList.Examine.class.php?_CONF%5bpath%5d=someURL /wp-content/plugins/myflash/myflash-button.php?wpPATH=someURL /wp-content/wp-content/plugins/wordtube/wordtube-button.php?wpPATH=someURL /wp-content/plugins/Enigma2.php?boarddir=someURL
A new design! I decided I needed a new and fresh look and the result is the still-in-progress ‘Guangzhou’ theme. My hope is that it’s both easier to navigate, as well as being lighter and more suitable for future work. Comments, as always, are welcomed.
In conjunction with the new theme I’ve made use of WP-Cache and Gravatar cache, which should result in a noticeable speed improvement. The site itself has undergone a good clean, with all invalid code being replaced, all dead-links now corrected, and the addition of new sections for software, articles, and about myself.
On top of that I’ve added a new plugin: HTML Purified. This plugin changes the default comment filter and replaces it with HTML Purifier, a very exhaustive library that checks, validates, and corrects HTML. Not that WordPress is insecure by default, but this just beefs it up a notch, and ensures that comments are both safe and XHTML valid.
Redirection 1.7.5 has been released and adds:
Version 3.1.0 of HeadSpace2 brings with it:
Audit Trail 1.0 brings with it:
Redirection 1.7.3 has been released and adds:
Version 3.0.8 of HeadSpace2 brings with it:
An update on two of my WordPress plugins: HeadSpace is now standing at version 3, and Filled In at version 1.6. Both have had extensive changes. HeadSpace now allows you to define meta data across all WordPress pages, as well as supporting Ecto. Filled In is a very powerful form management system that has had a major revamp and is now much more capable and even has the ability to add CAPTCHA images to forms.