Google Font API Thesis and Wordpress
July 30, 2010
So if you keep up on these things you’ll no doubt have heard that Google has released a pretty super nifty and cool new fonts directory which will effectively allow you use some very snazzy fonts in a very web safe way. This makes me pretty happy since it’s always a pain to have to ignore high quality fontography in place of web safe fonts. Here’s a bit of background on the whole... Read more »
Wordpress Desktop Client for Mac
October 15, 2009
I spend a good bit of my time writing content for my various websites. Logging into each separate Wordpress or Joomla instance can be time consuming and annoying — as good as web interfaces have become they are still no where near as responsive as a good desktop app. Being a Mac user there aren’t that many fantastic options for blogging software. I’ve tried... Read more »
MacJournal Review and Tests
October 15, 2009
I’m testing out more MacJournal Stuff and it looks like my server time was set completely improperly. Good time, had to ssh in — after digging up my cryptic passwords. Now to test the upload without scheduling issues. I’m also going to default to the most simple option for image insertion. Good ol’ drag and drop. A few things are coming to mind here as I use this: Image... Read more »
Wordpress Backup Plugins
May 14, 2009
In the last few days the Gumblar malware injection attack has been making the rounds and hopefully you’ve taken preventitive measures to ensure that you are as safe as you can be from this annoying injection attack. Just so you’re aware the reason for this attack is Blackhat SEO spammers are attempting to insert a hidden link on your site for the purposes of link... Read more »
Wordpress Exploit Gumblar .cn
May 12, 2009
Looks like there is another Wordpress exploit out there dubbed Gumblar .cn — I was actually made aware of it through a pingback from Growmap.com on their: Watch Out for Recent WordPress Gumblar PHP Exploit post. These attacks are extremely time consuming to clean up, trust me I’ve had to do it before in the past. It’s not a quick or easy thing to have to deal with at all. There... Read more »
Wordpress Security Plugins
April 23, 2009
When you use Wordpress for a corporate or business website, security always comes up as an issue and for good reason. In what has turned into an ongoing series on Wordpress Security I’m going to review a few very useful plugins which will add an additional layer of security to your Wordpress or Wordpress MU site. In addition to this article, you might find the... Read more »
Blocking Spam with Wordpress
April 7, 2009
After my last article on Cleaning your Site after a Wordpress Injection Attack I figure that it’s time to take the old “an ounce of prevention us better than a pound of a cute” (or something like that). So here is a nice easy way to enhance your Akismet spam protection and quickly and easily blacklist an offending IP. Personally I get really sick of blog spammers,... Read more »
Wordpress Injection Attack
March 3, 2009
March 4, 2009 Update: My plan has worked out very well and everything is back to normal without too much of an interruption. My request for Google site review took a total of 12 hours and it was completely handled through Google Webmaster Tools. Google spidered the entire site for about 6 hours checking every existing page on the site from Mountain View California. Around... Read more »





