The new WordPress 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tynerhas been released with several enhanced features and addons.
1. Easily revise your photos or restore your previous editions for a certain post. This benefits multi-author blogs where you can see every change tracked by person.
2. Easily blog about a newly found stuff (a video, an audio file, an image, an interesting article, etc.) from the web with its enhanced Press This! button. Easily grab the text, images, quote or embed a video with this feature.
3. Catch more attention by adding captions for your images.
4. Preview your chosen theme first before using it to your blog.
My upcoming graduation and recent site suspension have kept me out-of-loop from the latests in blogosphere. It was only now that I learned about the latest huge hacking exploits on WordPress 2.3.3. The script (a Trojan horse) has infected over 6 thousand WordPress 2.3.3 bloggers (as of today). It creates a directory in your wp-contents folder named “1″ and creates a directory of list of “search engine-friendly” gambling, porn, and other illegal sites. Currently, solutions are yet to be formulated.
To know if you have been infected with this malware, you can check your wp-content and look if there is a directory named “1″. You can do it through FTP or through your file manager or simply check your website at http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/1/. If you are infected, you will see a list of those illegal sites.
How does the virus affect your website?
Google has flagged some of the infected sites as harmful. Unfortunately, if you were affected, it may cause significant drop to your traffic because a “this website may harm your PC” message will appear below your link warning visitors not to come to your site (take the case of BonTB who were one of the firsts to discover this exploit).
It may also affect your SERPs and PR since you are “hosting” illegal sites. You may also be suspended from your host since you will be violating their terms and conditions. Read more…
I just did the major blog revamp for this site and so glad that everything went smoothly.
WordPress Database Upgrade:
I upgraded to WordPress 2.3.3. My previous WordPress install version was 2.2.1 installed last July 2007. Ever since I experienced WordPress database error due to auto-upgrading through Fantastico, I’ve been careful in upgrading my database. So this time, I’ve taken several measures to avoid those upgrade errors.
Backed up my database. Sadly, I was one of those WordPress users who always forget to back up during upgrade.
Uninstalled the plugins and checked plugin incompatibilities before upgrade. The errors I’ve experienced during the previous upgrade were due to plugin incompatibilities. It is, thus, highly recommended to check for the plugin compatibility, do upgrades, or look for alternative plugins if there are compatibility issues.
Using magazine-style WordPress themes is the new trend in the blogging community. These themes enhances the CMS capability of WordPress.
Why is it better to choose a magazine- or newspaper-style theme?
1. It’s “pro-looking”. One of the ways to drive traffic and persuade readers is making your layout professional. Because these themes can be taking a lot of knowledge about coding, most of them are designed by professional designers.
2. You can maximize the space on your blog. You have a lot of space for advertising and other widgets.
3. It is best for multimedia. Magazine-style themes are best for video blogging and podcasting.
4. You can have featured posts highlighting a certain notable post. Read more…
- Performance improvements, including over 300 memory leak fixes, perennial problems with Firefox since the beginning and an issue that plagues it badly today
- Firefox 3 does seem quite a bit speedier than version 2.
- With its intuitive search, users can auto-scour their surfing and browsing history and bookmarks for visited URLs and even page titles, making it easier to find “lost” pages as you type.
- Bookmarking is easier to do (just one click) and organization of bookmarks is also improved.
My domain and other sites, has been hosted since its birth in the blogosphere by Ejam Hosting through its post-to-host program for FREE.
I have been satisfied with their hosting because I am getting the features of a paid host for FREE and so far, Ejam has satisfied my qualifications for a free host. Unfortunately (or fortunately), since this blog has been widely visited these past days, I have to upgrade my bandwidth limit and storage capacity.
Although I was satisfied with the hosting, my fear of losing my website was still there. Because it’s a free hosting, I was afraid of instability in the future. I’ve experienced this dilemma with my previous free hosts. AhPlace, my first host, for example, has been one of the most-trusted free hosts but due to hacker attacks, click frauds, spammers, and several other instabilities, it has to close down losing all the data of its hosted members. I still highly recommend Ejam, though. Read more…
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