Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog up to 21 January 2018
Tag: wordpress
Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog up to 24 July 2016
Fed up installing updates to WordPress sites? Stick this in a cron job somewhere, and cross your fingers (a little)….
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varnish throttling
I came across the varnish throttle module the other day – which seems quite useful – and certainly gives better control over abusive requests than using fail2ban (in that, only specific URLs/request types can be targeted and blocked with the throttle module, while fail2ban tends to trigger the blocking of any traffic from a client […]
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Cleaning up a lot of WordPress _transients
WordPress seems to like hiding a load of ‘transient’ (cacheable) stuff in it’s wp_options table. Unfortunately for one site, it seems it didn’t bother to clean up the transient stuff, leaving behind about 750,000 records… which made a WP version upgrade painful, as MySQL locks the wp_option table which causes all other page loads to […]
Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog up to 18 January 2015
Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog up to 28 December 2014
While trying to block spam posts on a forum, I noticed this gem. No doubt someone’s spam sending program has failed, just a little….
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Fail2ban filter for WordPress
With the annoying brute force wordpress hack going round, one way to protect your site(s) would be to use fail2ban, with a configuration something like (which I’ve shamelessly lifted from http://blog.somsip.com/2011/12/protecting-apache-webservers-from-wordpress-admin-login-dictionary-attacks/ ). The below seems to be working, and given it’s relative simplicity it’s obvious how you’d go about changing to protect other POST based scripts […]
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Google News Sitemap + WordPress
Annoyingly the current version of the google-news-sitemap plugin for WordPress (v1.4) doesn’t work with some silly XML namespace error reported by google. See http://wordpress.org/support/topic/364929 and effectively the ‘patch’ on the Google Support forum thing which works fine (there are two bits of the plugin which need updating – whcih correlate to the two parts mentioned […]