The folks at Automattic released a security update for WordPress today due to a very specific bug: …a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password reset and a new password would be emailed to the account owner. While this isn’t an incredibly nasty…
One of the things that is most missed in the Social Media rush to “join the conversation” is that in many cases, by offering a plethora of places to get our content, we’ve turned the tables. Our readers who used to find us now expect us to find them. Even though I write on my blog, I’ll often get the comments for that post on my Facebook page, or via FriendFeed or Twitter, or on some other blog somewhere that…
I really used to look forward to WordPress updates, probably because there were so many things that needed to be fixed. Now we’re at a point where it’s in very good shape, and, frankly, the interim releases are kind of boring. Still, it’s good to see that I can finally click on automatic update, for either plugins, or the main software itself, and it actually does the update. In other WordPress news, they have a new developers survey out for…
(Uh, Jeff, Kelly, move on, nothing to read here. Nothing of interest to you at all…really…) I had one of those moments today. Mistakes were made. Bad mistakes. The “oh crap, I’m editing on the production site, not the qa or dev server” type of mistakes that immediately have you picturing your career dissipation light suddenly burning bright. So I noticed after working on this highly important site that I’d accidently overwritten something on the live site. Yech. Luckily, as…
Josh Root, Director of Community at Photo.net is live blogging and tweeting from the floor of the PMA (Photo Marketing Association) trade show in Las Vegas. The show runs through Thursday. You can catch the his blog posts at blog.photo.net (I did the blog setup, using WordPress) and his tweet stream at http://twitter.com/photonet. In addition to new products and other show news, he’s running interviews with people like Photoshop Expert Kartin Eismann and Jodi Cobb, photographer from National Geographic. Be…
After my upgrade to 2.7.1 I found I had no visual editor. After reuploading files, etc. I finally found that I’ve got an issue with one of my plugins. Not sure which one, but obviously it’s one that interacts with the admin console. Steps to fix the problem if you have a tinymce editor in WordPress 2.7.1 that has stopped working. Refresh the page using ctl-shift-refresh (this is a “hard refresh” which will force everything to reload from the server,…
Jean-Baptiste Jun has come up with a truly useful list for WordPress developers in his article for Smashing Magazine entitled “10 Killer WordPress Hacks“. 2008 was a very good year for the WordPress community. The software was updated numerous times, leading to the recent release of version 2.7, and many new blogs dedicated to WordPress were created. Of course, tons of new hacks were discovered, which helped lots of bloggers enhance their blogs. In this article, we’ll show you…
Over the past couple weeks we’re seeing a lot of folks coming around to the view I express last year: The thing that calls it all into question for me is the number of people who are generally ex-online marketing folks now using strange titles like “Social Media User Guru” or something equally ludicrous. It reminds me of a networking group I once attended that turned out to be a room full of sales people, each hoping to sell something,…
Following Ari Herzog’s example, here are my top 10 posts of 2008. It’s a hard choice to make, but the votes are all in and I’ve got the envelope from our friends at Price Waterhouse containing the winners: Why Most Online Communities Fail… A peice that really sums up the problems we face building online communities, and the common problems that cause them to fail. The Newspaper Decline – The Side We Don’t See – A great analysis of the problems facing…
It’s out and you can get it here. Words to the wise: There are some issues with Image Handling which have not been resolved. These issues appear to be related to server setup, and not the actual code, but sites where images handling worked on 2.6.5 may find that it is broken in 2.7 – like this site. (Update: yes, image thumbnailing is working for me now – it appears it’s finicky on large size images and doens’t like some…