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GoDaddy sites hacked again
After the massive hacks injecting malware into shared hosted sites from several providers back in April and May, it seems they are back at work. Many sites hosted by GoDaddy are being hacked at the...
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PHP 5.3.2, WordPress and The Mystery of The Disappearing Permalinks Settings...
Mystery, Hitchcock, PHP: Sometimes "ugly" can be "beautiful" too Remember I once wrote about the choice of selfhosting your blog or not? No? Well I did. And if you choose to selfhost a blog, some of...
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How to import a Tumblr blog into WordPress
I feel like standing in front of a rail crossing, when the red lights just won’t go off. Is it worth driving to the next rail crossing, just a minute further down the road? Are the lights defective,...
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How one small plug-in can slow down your blog
Well I’ll be darned. I am never too old to learn. Over the past two weeks, I migrated seven blogs from Tumblr to WordPress, onto my VPS (Virtual Private Server) on Hostgator. Concerned about the...
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How to combine RSS feeds with Yahoo Pipes
Many bloggers use RSS feeds to check on the latest posts from different websites and blogs. Bloggers often use widgets to display RSS feeds from related blogs, or their Twitter and Delicious updates....
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How one small plug-in can slow down your site.The Drupal version
Mea Culpa! Drupal is fast, but I made it slow... Remember my rumbling about how one plug-in can make your WordPress blog slow? Well, here is a similar story about my Drupal news aggregation site....
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How I moved 350,000 blogposts from Tumblr to WordPress
Moving blogs: labour intensive, but fun! I had seven blogs on Tumblr which aggregate news. Using a technique I described earlier, they take RSS feeds from over 1,000 carefully selected websites and...
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Help! My server performance went down!
A few months ago, I migrated 7 blogs with 350,000 blogposts from Tumblr to WordPress on my VPS server. Together with some other blogs and websites, that server happily processed about 50,000 visitors...
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When things break – Yet another look inside the workshop for a self-hosted blog
You can classify blogs into categories using many different criteria. From a blog-administrator’s point of view, the main classification whether a blog is self-hosted on your own server (such as...
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How to secure WordPress timthumb.php
If you have a selfhosted WordPress blog (WordPress.org), take urgent measures to secure your site from a recently discovered vulnerability. Many WordPress themes and plug-ins use a script called...
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