Wordpress lockdown
Jun 17, 2008 Blogging
I spent some time yesterday making my wordpress site safer. Don’t be intimidated; it’s not too difficult:
Wordpress Security Tips and Hacks
If you’re not hosting your own wordpress install, you’re fine.
I didn’t realize that any old person could see what plugins I’d installed so that was the first (and easiest) thing to do — add an index.html to the folder.
I’ve found Wordpress 2.5.1 to be really buggy. I’ve installed it on a whole bunch of people’s sites and some of ‘em have problems I can’t seem to fix (like Julia still can’t upload pictures, I have to save my entries to click the comments/trackback permissions before I hit publish and Kristen’s flickr plugins are all wonky). But you really have to keep up with updates because they fix some of the security issues. Just remember to back up — I say this as someone who has lost blog entries in updates. Just export your entries and save your wp-content folder and wp-config file before you do your install. That way if something goes wrong you can try a fresh install and just import your entries, themes, etc.
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Tags: wordpress, wordpress 2.5, wordpress hacks, wordpress security, wordpress updates
My feed was broken
Jun 9, 2008 Blogging
I don’t know why but it was. Luckily Momosapien gave me a heads up and I was able to fix it. Honestly, wordpress 2.5 is giving me such fits! There are some other niggly things driving me crazy but I don’t have time to fix them. In any case, there are a handful of posts that never made it to the feedreaders. Oh well, what’s a girl to do?
I go back onsite tomorrow and am thinking I should have done laundry. This work wardrobe thing could kill a person. What with the regular shaving of the legs and the need for shirts that no one has wiped her mouth on (I’m looking at you, Madison!) and now with the hot weather — sheesh! I was talking to someone about more onsite work and I said, you know, I really like working in my pajamas.
Sometimes people will say you should get dressed even if you’re telecommuting to show how professional you are even if you’re just showing your desk chair and your dog. I beg to disagree. I mean, that might be important for some people but for me? Listen, telecommuting makes me happy because I think bras are ludicrous but also must bow to convention these days when my breasts are no longer perky. So yes, when I’m leaving the house I’ll wear them, which is just one of the many reasons I don’t look for excuses to leave the house.
The neighbors behind us are trying to sell their house. They’ve already moved but we got to talk to them today. They are awfully nice neighbors so I’m a little nervous about someone else showing up there. On the other hand, I know how badly they want to sell it so I’m rooting for a buyer even though an empty house is less worrisome to me than potentially awful neighbors.
Ok, this was mostly an update to test the rss feed.
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