26May

WordPress hacked with Zend encoded script

PHP, Wordpress

This time happened on Hostgator, I found the following code in my footer.php file: 1 2 <?php @include_once(ABSPATH . "/wp-includes/wp-vars.php"); ?> <?=@get_wp_results(’f');?> This totally screwed my footer section and above that it made my website traffic go to zero. I immediately removed the code and discovered two files: wp-includes/wp-vars.php encoded with Zend which I am [...]

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31Dec

wp-admin/post-new.php redirects to blog index

Wordpress

After I upgraded the blog to wordpress v 2.9 I noticed something went wrong, both my post-new.php and edit.php pages were redirecting to the blog index with a 302 redirect (HTTP/1.x 302 Moved Temporarily). The first thing I did was to check the htaccess file from the index and from the wp-admin directory but the [...]

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10Nov

Remove WordPress version tag from header

Wordpress

Since version 2.5 WordPress inserts the version meta tag <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 2.5″ /> automatically without you having the possibility to remove it from the header file. WordPress now uses <?php wp_head(); ?> a function that if you remove you’re removing more than just the wordpress version. So the solution is to add something to [...]

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24Oct

WordPress 2.6.3 is available!

Wordpress

WordPress just launched a new version, thank god i have the automatic upgrade plugin because they launch new versions every month. I’m just a click away of the new wordpress. Hmmm lets see what this new wordpress brings to the table. late update: I’ts curious though that my other wordpress blogs think their up to [...]

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01Apr

Automatic plugin upgrade from wordpress 2.5 is neat

Wordpress

As i was saying in the title the automatic upgrade function is cool, no more manually downloading files and overwriting them, you just press “automatic upgrade” and everything is done by wordpress. For example i tried automatic upgrading for Sociable plugin, here is the result: Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sociable.2.6.2.zip Unpacking the update Deactivating the plugin [...]

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