My mother’s blog — Adventures in Parenting.org — was hacked today. It took a couple hours to do the research and fix the site, but I think things have mostly settled down now. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to know — without re-doing the entire site — that everything is completely clean. So comb through the site, and let me know right away if you see anything suspicious.
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Maintaining a website is a full-time job. And as a full-time student, iPhone developer, and Lab Assistant, I sometimes wonder if it’s too much. But people actually read this website, so I’ve got to keep it up for them. As ashanks04 pointed out to me, my website is down — but what do I care, I’m busy with iPhone apps 
I’m using K2 with Psychic Search, and my blog looked a bit weird for users coming from search engines. The tag specified a class that was completely messed up. It showed Related Posts along with some keywords. I was confused, thinking it was caused by one of the Related Posts plugins I had installed.
Tags: K2, Psychic Search, wordpress
WordPress doesn’t allow anyone Author level or below to post unfiltered HTML. It silently strips things like <script> tages from their posts. Extremely annoying. Fortunately, there’s a plugin called Role Manager which allows you to give certain users specific permissions, like unfiltered HTML posting. You find it here at these sites: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: plugins, role manager, wordpress
PodPress 8.8 (the latest version as of this writing) is incompatible with WordPress 2.6.
The fix is to add this line to wp-config.php -
I’m deleting a bunch of WordPress plugins from my mom’s Adventures in Parenting site because they’ve been inactive for a while.
I had a weird issue today where the Amazon code was properly added in the editor, but when we went to look at it on the post, it wasn’t there. Switching between Visual and HTML editing options would strip the code, too. The problem was the Trustworthy XHTML plugin 1.1. “Gives you control over how WordPress auto-formats XHTML in posts and pages. The administrator sets the defaults, and based on a user’s Role, that user may override the default setting for his or her own profile. By Leo Jackson.”
Tags: Amazon, bad plugins, code, html, wordpress
WordPress: Export Emails Of All Commenters
7/25/2008 in Travel by Elliot Lee | 3 comments
I managed to export the email addresses of all commenters on a WordPress blog so that I could check if they’re using Twitter. This is fairly straightforward to do:
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Tags: commenters, comments, convert, csv, emails, excel, export, notepad, twitter, wordpress