Delete original WP admin account for additional security
Have you recently had your WordPress installation hacked? Did the hackers fill your theme files with link spam? If so, you might have spent some time doing an upgrade and clean install of WordPress. As part of this process, you probably also changed the password you use to login to WordPress.
I had this problem a few months ago and found that changing my password was not enough. One additional step to fully secure your blog is to delete the original admin account. If you don’t, it’s probably only a matter of time before you are re-hacked.
By deleting the “admin” login, …
Issues with the Verse-O-Matic
There have been some issues with the Verse-O-Matic that have not been addressed. I’m not sure at this point if it is due to changes in WP that have not been accounted for, deprecated functions in PHP (I know there are some in the script), or if it is with MySQL. Regardless of where the issues lie, I will be releasing a fixed version to address the issues with the plugin.
However, note that this fix will be tested on and compatible with the most current version of WP (currently 2.5.1). It is important to keep up with the changes in …
Changing WordPress Posts to Pages
During the time that I was having problems with the spam injection hijack, I upgraded through a couple of versions of WordPress. During this process, I somehow “lost” all my pages. They were still there as posts, but for some reason they were not being seen as pages.
I did some searching on the issue, but really came up empty on finding an existing discussion of what I was looking for. So, I did what I usually do when confronted with a WordPress issue that I can’t find a ready fix for - lift the hood and get my hands dirty …
Site Update
Once again, I thank everyone for their patience. I believe that I have finally solved the problems with the site, but there is now much work to be done.
First, the issue I was having does not seem to be isolated. It was a spam injection hijack of my blog, and to be honest, the only reason I noticed it was the content of the AdSense ads that were showing up. It really was a bear to get rid of. I will have a single post later that covers this because the problem appears to be effecting a lot of WP …
Maintenance, Updating, Support, and other Stuff
Well, I thought I had the theme hacks licked, but of course it was rehacked. I’ve been trying to track that down before I go back and fix the theme (and really the whole blog) again. To be honest, it’s rather depressing because it is a lot of work to keep this thing going. Sometimes I feel like I’m just spinning plates - about the time I get the last plate spinning, I have to go back to respin the first ones because they’ve come to a stop.
On top of the hacks to my theme, there has been a ton …
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