WordPress plugins are in many regards just like Firefox add-ons. You got a few popular ones that most webmasters have installed and then a lot of differences when it comes to the rest. If you have ever looked at one of those “top x” posts about WordPress plugins chance is that you already know the [...]

Categories: ghacks, The Web

An update for the blogging script WordPress has just been released by the development team. The update fixes a security vulnerability that was previously reported by Thomas Mackenzie on his personal blog. The vulnerability affects all WordPress installations with the version number 2.9.0 or later. Previous WordPress installations are not affected by the vulnerability (but [...]

Categories: The Web

Tags are an essential part of nearly every WordPress blog. Webmasters use tags to categorize posts. One side-effect of tagging posts in WordPress is that these tags are sometimes indexed by search engines. Visitors from those search engines will then see a page containing excerpts of the posts that have been tagged with that tag. [...]

Categories: The Web, Tools

Password theft is a common problem on the Internet these days. Attackers use numerous ways to steal login credentials from users including phishing attacks via email, brute force attacks that try to guess the password, trojans and computer viruses or keyloggers that record every keystroke of the user. The best protection against those kind of [...]

Categories: Hardware, Security, Software

A new WordPress blog uses an unoptimized url structure that uses numbers instead of the actual article titles. The so called permalinks need to be changed to switch from the number system to a system that is better readable for visitors and favored by the search engines. It is for instance possible to use urls [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

Less than three weeks after the release of the much awaited WordPress 2.9 release milestone comes WordPress 2.9.1, a release that was expected by many because of bugs that some WordPress webmasters encountered after upgrading to or installing WordPress 2.9. The most notable – and annoying bug – was that WordPress seemed to have problems [...]

Categories: Online Services

The WordPress developers have released version 2.9 of their popular blogging script WordPress which can be downloaded from the official WordPress website. Users who have configured automatic updates can also upgrade to the new version of WordPress from within their blogs. It is however recommended to backup the files and database before initiating the update. [...]

Categories: Software, The Web

The WordPress developers have just released a security update for their blogging platform WordPress which raises the version of the software to 2.8.6. It is always recommended to update to a new version of WordPress as soon as possible and especially so for a security release. This release fixes two vulnerabilities that are only relevant [...]

Categories: The Web

The WordPress developers have released version 2.8.5 of their popular blogging software. The version is considered a security upgrade and therefor mandatory for all WordPress blog owners who run their own WordPress blog (but not those running a blog at WordPress.com). The developers are calling this released a hardening release as it tightens WordPress security [...]

Categories: The Web