WordPress is notorious for buckling if a site sees a sudden spike in traffic (also known as the Digg Effect, slashdotted, fireballed etc. etc.). As a result, a number of plugins have emerged to replace the default “render-on-every-access” WordPress model with serving static files from disk (ala Drupal or Joomla). …
I think I’ve worked out most of the kinks in moving the blog to it’s new home, so I thought I would spend a little time talking about some of the challenges and ideas behind this shift. But first a little bit of history – I originally started blogging on …
One of the newer features in WordPress 2.1.x onwards is the ability to export and import almost all the content from a WordPress install using a WXR file. The file contains (to quote) “posts, comments, custom fields, pages, and categories” and if you are starting a fresh WordPress install on …
WordPress Blog » WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2 [via MetaFilter] Apparently, crackers managed to break into a WordPress server and add malicious code to the 2.1.1 build of WordPress that allows for remote PHP execution. This is probably one of the most sophisticated types of security attacks – embedding …
I have a weird problem when using BlogJet to write articles in that any post I publish using BlogJet actually queues up to be posted 8 hours later! It’s a bug in BlogJet, because 8 hours is the offset I have entered in my WordPress settings so that all my …