Archive For July, 2009

WP Super Cache 0.9.6.1

WP Super Cache 0.9.6.1 is now available. This release adds the following menu item to the admin page. You can now choose to not cache different types of pages on your blog. Don’t want to cache your front page? That’s easy now. The indented page types are types covered by the top type. “Archives” covers [...]

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Win a trip to Disneyland

I’ve got good news, and I’ve got great news! The good news is for spammers. The great news is for you. The good news is that in 3 simple steps you too could win a trip to Disneyland: Visit one of those sites that lists this blog as a dofollow blog (BTW – it doesn’t [...]

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WordPress MU 2.8.2

WordPress MU 2.8.2 has just been released. This is a security release with the same fix as the standalone WordPress. WordPress 2.8.2 fixes an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site. This release also [...]

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reCAPTCHA Fail

I had to refresh twice to get a string I could read and type. Captcha anti spam checks suck.

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WP Super Cache 0.9.5

WP Super Cache 0.9.5 is now available. This release fixes a number of bugs and adds a few new features. The main one being improved mobile support and improved mod_rewrite rules generation. For more, check out the shiny new changelog.

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Worldwide Photowalk on MU

For all you photographers out there, did you know the Worldwide Photowalk takes place next Saturday? It’s a good chance to meet other photographers in your area. It was a pleasant surprise when I realised their website runs on WordPress MU! I’m leading the Cork City Walk (still a few places left!) on Saturday and [...]

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Why you should limit login attempts

Some idiot at 213.155.4.184 hit all my websites over the last few days trying to login to my blogs. He fired off hundreds of automated requests probing and searching and testing my admin login. Each request had a different password. I use difficult to guess passwords but seeing the attempts was disconcerting. I went searching [...]

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Irish Blog Awards 2009 Photowalk

About time I posted these. The Blog Awards took place in Cork this year, last February, and before the big night, a good number of photographers wandered around Cork City. I posted several IBA09 photos on my photoblog already but here are a few more: BTW – if you’re in Cork next weekend, there are [...]

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WordPress MU 2.8.1

WordPress MU is a multi user or multi blog version of WordPress that is used to run sites like WordPress.com. Just a day after WordPress 2.8.1 came out and here’s WordPress MU 2.8.1. The original WordPress announcement has plenty to say about this release, but what you need to know is this is a security [...]

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How not to advertise a blogging event

Don’t search for your event topic and spam the blogs you find. At least make the effort to look up the blog author’s name and send them an email. I would have gladly plugged Kinsale Arts Week if they had been polite. Big Bad Fail.

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Holy Shmoly! is Stephen Fry proof thanks to caching by WP Super Cache