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 »