BurningbirdA vulnerability was discovered with WordPress 1.2.1 and 1.3a, as detailed here and in a forum thread for WordPress, here. This was caused by the fact that an important system variable, siteurl is modified in wp-login.php if the application detects that the URI used to access wp-login.php has changed from what’s stored in the database. As detailed in both of […]
Just a quick note to say that the Kitchen is still open for those who would like to post at the site. I did close it down at one point when the security problem happened a week ago, but it’s still open for writing and comments. Currently, I’m editing Frank Paynter’s long posting on Why do we Blog — […]
Cold Forged did a very nice encapsulation of spell checking as a plug-in for WordPress. I grabbed the code and incorporated it as a new option in my comments’ pages so you can spell check your comments–both the live comment, and the saved comment in the edit window. But will we have as much fun without our […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I see that none of you nominated me in any of the categories at the 2004 Weblog Awards including the technical category. Or the photoblog category. Or in the “Small Mammal” category, which I think I was last time I looked. Luckily there’s no ‘hiking weblog’ category, or you’d all be dirt […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Earlier, in response to designer demands for programmers to be more responsive to users, I wrote a post titled Open Source is Like Sex. In it I said that the users need to think about being less passive–to meet the techs half way. Of course, when the users say, “Come on […]