A computer worm is currently in the wild that is attacking unpatched Wordpress blogs. Unpatched meaning blogs that have not been updated by their administrators to the latest version of the popular blogging software. The worm exploits a security vulnerability in older versions of Wordpress to create a user account, make some changes to the [...]
Create Image Thumbnails In Windows Explorer
It is not only web designers who need to create image thumbnails regularly. There are many situations where image thumbnails come in handy starting from blogging and publishing websites to PowerPoint presentations or preview images of a photo collection. Some programs and online scripts – like Wordpress for instance – create image thumbnails automatically whenever [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jun 28th, 2009
- Comments: 5
Blogging with Blogger from your desktop with BloGTK
Recently I worked on some articles about blogging from various means (from within Firefox and on the desktop). One of those applications I left out of that study was BloGTK. The reason I left it out was because it wasn’t able to use the entire feature set of the new Blogger API and it is [...]
Wordpress 2.8
A new version of the popular blogging script Wordpress has been released by the developers yesterday. Wordpress 2.8 is the latest stable release of the blogging platform and webmasters are encouraged to upgrade their blogs as soon as possible to benefit from the changes in that version. The update adds a multitude of features and [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Mar 9th, 2009
- Comments: 2
Check your sites delicious bookmark counts automatically
While looking for something completely different I found a handy little tool called Bookmarked Reporter which can parse your site (or use an XML sitemap) and create a report of the delicious bookmark count for all the sub pages. This is great for blogs with many posts, it makes everything easier to track.
Once you have [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Dec 18th, 2008
- Comments: 5
Why content is king on the internet
Working as a web developer I get a lot of requests regarding SEO and getting to the top of Google as fast as possible. While code-wise a lot can be done, this is nowhere near enough. If you want to get anywhere near good rankings you will need solid content that keeps coming regularly. Once [...]
Blogging Tips
There are three types of bloggers. Those that do it for fun, those that want to become rich and those that do it because they want to market themselves. The first group can do whatever they want and will still be happy with it. The other two groups need knowledge about blogging if they want [...]
