Tag: wordpress

  • WordPress comment spam post fail

    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….

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Good bye Drupal

    blog moved; the world didn’t end…