Who would want to hack my website?!
It would appear that hacking doesn’t always take the “This site 0WneD by L33t Hax0rs” form, and that Wordpress sites in particular are being targetted by Spam Injection hacks.
A few weeks ago I noticed that the ads on the front page of pnotepad.org were a little odd, lots of [...]
The Akismet plug-in for Wordpress just caught 130 odd spam comments that were submitted over a relatively short period of time. That’s saved me a good bit of time in filtering the comments manually had they made it through. Having a blog is a much more pleasant experience with Akismet installed.
Update: Another 140 since this [...]
The upgrade was painless, as I’ve come to expect from WordPress - v2 is a great upgrade too. Running a WordPress blog and you’ve not upgraded yet - why not?
While we were sleeping, Wordpress 1.5 (”Strayhorn”) was released!
Announcement is here.
Amusingly, Wordpress uses a similar set of release names to Programmers Notepad - they’re all great Jazz names. Both PN and Wordpress have had Mingus releases, and the new release is Strayhorn. In Matt’s own words:
This release is named “Strayhorn” in honor of Billy Strayhorn [...]
Here is a handy hint allowing you to highlight nofollow links in firefox.
Search Engines: 1, Spammers: 0.
In an exciting bit of news for bloggers everywhere, Google and a number of other search engines are rolling out support for a new attribute for hyperlinks that tells the search engine not to follow or index that link.
Your new spam-safe links should take the form:
<a href=”somelink” rel=”nofollow”></a>
This removes the benefit [...]
My blog has been up here for approximately 8 hours, and already the first attempt at spam from a blackjack site. Unbelievable.
[update] Ironic, of course that moments later the same spamidiot (whether bot or human) attempted to post spam to this entry too!
I have decided to move my blog from the Programmers Notepad website to a separate domain. I wish to use my blog to write about more than PN so it makes sense to keep the blog elsewhere. This will be the new home for all such blogging, and I will make RSS/Atom feeds available for [...]