Web Technology
WordPress Security: It’s Getting Worse, Not Better
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Do you rely on WordPress to publish a site or a portion of a site? If you do, the newly cavalier attitude of WordPress developers with respect to divulging specific security exploits that could affect thousands of individual blogs has made your reliance far more dangerous than it ever has been before. Far from a gradually improving security picture, WordPress security is getting worse — much worse.
Matt Cutts Publishing Duplicate Content on His WordPress Blog
Monday, August 6th, 2007(Or…SEO Experts Still Getting it Wrong on WordPress Duplicate Content…) Following my posts last week about the latest duplicate content vulnerability in the WordPress blogging platform, it didn’t take long for someone to point out that Matt Cutts is now officially publishing duplicate content on his blog — and so are bundles of experts in the SEO community (including many who have prognosticated extensively on curing WordPress of duplicate content issues).
Yet Another Duplicate Content Vulnerability Hits WordPress, Movable Type Blogs (Part 2)
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007In this second article about the bug in both WordPress and Movable Type which causes these blogging platforms to deliver the same content via a potentially infinite number of different URLs, I describe a temporary fix to guard your blog against the risk of showing massive quantities of duplicate content to search engines.
Yet Another Duplicate Content Vulnerability Hits WordPress, Movable Type Blogs (Part 1)
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007This isn’t the same tired old WordPress ‘vulnerability’ you’ve already heard so much about (i.e., the fact that certain WordPress permalink choices and theme designs will cough up the same article content via multiple URLs). No, this one is actually a bug in both WordPress and Movable Type, a bug which causes these blogging platforms to deliver the same content via a potentially infinite number of different URLs. If you’re not already using the fix provided here, your blog is at risk of showing massive quantities of duplicate content to search engines — enough to dilute the relevance of your real content with a flood of identical copies.
Improve Your Phplist RSS-to-Email Feature By Using Simplepie Rather Than Onyx
Monday, July 30th, 2007The phplist mailing list software includes built-in support for RSS-to-email by way of Onyx RSS, a pretty useful chunk of PHP code which is now around 5 years old. However, you can improve your RSS-to-email (and Atom-to-email) capabilities significantly by upgrading phplist to use Simplepie rather than Onyx. It’s new, it’s snazzy, and (unlike Onyx) it’s being actively developed and supported.