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<?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 unable to decode. It would be great if someone could decode this so we can see the malicious code.
wp-includes/wp-version.php encoded with base_64 and decoded to :
file_put_contents(‘wp-common.php’,base64_decode($bb) )

I deleted both of these files and everything seems ok now. I was unable to find wp-common.php so I assume it wasn’t created yet.
wp-includes/wp-vars.php encoded with Zendwp-includes/wp-version.php

Downloads:
wp-vars

from the admin panel go to Tools> Upgrade > Re-install automatically , next wordpress will re-install the same version automatically. This fixed my problem and I can use the pages now.

Place this code: remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator'); right before the closing php tag ?> . Now check your source code, the wordpress version is not disclosed any more.

late update: I’ts curious though that my other wordpress blogs think their up to date

After researching a bit i made up my mind to change the permalinks structure on my Electronics Blog. I ran the blog for about 8 months with the default permalinks structure which is /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ . The reason i wanted to change the permalinks structure is pure SEO. I noticed that many other blogs are using only the /%postname%/ as permalinks structure, so i figured they must know why, and as a plus it also looks nicer, i don’t really like long URLs, they are better shorter.

But as i was thinking at making the change a problem appeared in my mind: Google has all my pages indexed with the old permalinks structure which means when someone will try to access a result page from Google they will get a “not found” page on my blog, not to mention the loss of all my back-links on the articles, this will be like killing my blog, if I’d do this my traffic will go down with about 80 %. Not a good idea indeed.

So i did a little research on Google about permalinks migration, and i found a great plugin, The Permalinks Migration Plugin. The plugin makes use of a directive named the “301 Redirect”. This redirect is acknowledged by all the search engines including Google, and what it does, is to redirect search engines and any user trying to access the old structure link to the new structure. And you wont loose a visitor, not even one.

You can download The Permalinks Migration Plugin from here. After unzipping you upload the files to your WordPress plugins directory and then you activate the plugin trough the admin panel. After you activated the plugin you need to go to Options > PermalinksMigration : and set your old permalinks structure or it should be already set. Next you have to go to Options > Permalinks and make the change to your new desired permalinks structure, i recommend the /%postname%/ as structure or /%category%/%postname%/ , apply the new settings and its done, your post will now show with the new permalinks, but every old link will be redirected to the new one. Isn’t this great ?

After seeing how easy it was to change the permalinks structure i also did it here, on this blog.

After i read what some bloggers who updated their wordpress to the beta version, have said about it, im not thinking of upgrading, not a chance. They said that the new interface its not like it should be with warm colors, actually the combination of colors is not so good. And after you’ve upgraded you cant downgrade with a simple rewrite. Another issue is that xmlrpc.php is not compatible with windows live writer, the post is published on the blog, but in windows live writer it generates errors. And it seems that the admin interface for comments is missing the AJAX interface.

I am sure I’m gonna wait before upgrading

WordPress has released a new version for testing, and if everything goes well it should become the new stable version. The new version should load faster and contain a new interface that will allow you to work faster while keeping the wordpress classic simplicity. A few of the new features are : A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars and full text feeds. We just have to wait a few days for the feedback from the testing users to be processed and once everything is ok, we should enjoy the new WordPress 2.5

EasyTube: a plugin that allows you to easily insert youtube or google videos into your articles by using a sintax.

GoogleAnalytics: this plugin inserts automatically the tracking code into every page of your blog.

AdsenseManager: this plugin allows you to easily manage your ads from a control panel, it also support other ad networks.

Maintenance Mode: this plugin proves to be really useful when you are making changes to your blog and want to tell your visitors about this in a pleasant way. The plugin adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance while logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end.

Simple Tags: in my opinion this is the perfect wordpress plugin to manage your tags. It also incorporates other functions like Related Post and a highly versatile TagCloud.

RSS Footer: this wordpress plugin allows you to add a copyright into your RSS footer.

WP-DBManager: this plugin is probably the most lifesaver from all of them. It has a function for scheduled automatic back-up of your database and many other useful functions including emailing the back-up to your address.

WP-Ban: this wordpress plugin provides you with a nice administration panel where you can ban different ip ranges or single ip-s. When the banned ip-s access the blog it will display a custom ban message.

Zap-NewWindow: Zap new windows plugin provides a nice functio: any link except from the blogs domain, will be opened in a new windows when clicked.

Subscribe to Comments: as the names states this wordpress plugin ads a litle box to the end of the comment form that users can opt for to receive email notifications from that article’s comments.

Its been a while i don’t know maybe 2 weeks, since the message with upgrade to a newer version started to appear on my plugin’s page for the Adsense Manager plugin, but i didn’t rushed into upgrading. Today though i decided to remove that message and upgrade to its latest version. Now i regret a bit i did that, because i thought everything is gonna go smoothly, but i was wrong. After copying the new files over the old ones, i accessed my blog(not this one, another blog of mine). And i had a nasty surprise, all my ads were gone, and in their spot there were this big blank spaces that messed up my layout. So i though that by uploading the old files i would just downgrade to my initial version and everything was going to be ok, but neah everything was even more messed up. PHP errors on my Manage Ads page now. At this moment i got pretty angry on this upgrade. So i uploaded again the new version, deleted all ads, and created new ones. Everything works ok now, but i had to put up like 1 hour of work for nothing, for a stupid upgrade.