BurningbirdThe first changes being made to the initial snapshot of the WordPress 1.3a code is to incorporate the ‘floating cloud’ design currently being used at Burningbird into a 1.3 theme. While I’m at it, I’m also moving the default pages down into the themes directory, to minimize the number of files at the root directory […]
A 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 — […]
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. The IT Kitchen was badly hacked. I had thought I had set the user permissions up so that this couldn’t occur, but obviously not. Due to this, the Kitchen is closed, probably permanently. I found the problem that led to the unusability – the siteurl had been changed in the […]