When I dipped in to upgrade some plugins this evening, my dashboard kindly told me that I needed to upgrade from WordPress 2.6.2 to WordPress 2.6.3. Get the latest version here. In short, it seems that the library used to fetch the dashboards feeds, named Snoopy, has a vulnerability and this upgrade fixes that. So, [...]
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I Know How You Got Here!
Inspired by Stevo‘s post on Wonderful Search Terms and hoping to jump on the internet meme bandwagon, here are the top 20 searches for this site. Firstly, I know what the number one search term for this site is and I know it without checking. I find it fantastic that particular search term brings so [...]
How Did You Get Here?
This may seem to be a little nosy, but I have been looking at the various visitors and posters that come here and while I can probably guess in some cases, I am genuinely curious as to how my visitors come here. Now, my reason for being here is obvious – it’s my site. Some [...]
WordPress 2.6.2
Another quick heads up peeps. WordPress 2.6.2 is out and you should update ASAP – especially if you allow registrations on your blog. See the WordPress Dev Blog for details, but in short the new update fixes the SQL Column Truncation vulnerability and the weakness of mt_rand(). Apparently other PHP apps are vulnerable too – [...]
WordPress.org 2.6.1
Quick Note: WordPress 2.6.1 is out. If you are running an older version, especially if you haven’t even gone to 2.6.0 yet, you should upgrade – you’re missing out on new functionality and you may be at risk of having your site taken over. Things to remember when upgrading: deactivate your plugins first, not all [...]
CommentLuv
Anyone who has commented on any of my posts will be aware that I have the CommentLuv plugin enabled on this site. And lots of thanks to RT Cunningham of Untwisted Vortex for putting me onto this plugin. You could do a lot worse than follow his advice on building SEO for your site. For [...]