Tag: WORDPRESS

Hundreds of WordPress blogs, particularly those hosted by Network Solutions, have been hit with an attack that cripples the blogs and redirects visitors to a URL that loads malware. The attack has been reported by both Sucuri Security Labs and Trend Micro. It works by replacing the contents of a WordPress blog's "siteurl" field (under wp_options) with some HTML code. That field isn't supposed to ...

As time goes on, the list of extension dealbreakers for users pondering the jump from Firefox to Chrome keeps getting shorter. You may soon be able to cross off one of Firefox's most popular extensions for bloggers: Scribefire is now available as a Google Chrome extension. It's not as full-featured as its FF cousin by any stretch, but this is an alpha build. By the time it's all said and done, ...

VaultPress is a new service from Automattic, the company behind Wordpress. The service offers complete, real-time back-up for your Wordpress blogs. I said real-time, people! If you save a post revision - bam, it's backed up. If you update your template, it's backed up. It doesn't cover only posts and templates; comments are backed up too, as well as plugins and just about everything else. It ...

PubSubHubbub, the quickly-growing service that pushes out real-time updates to RSS feeds, continued its march toward ubiquity this week when uber-popular blogging platform WordPress started offering PubSub support. PubSub had already hit Tumblr, Posterous, Google's Blogger and more, but I think this is the move that finally takes it mainstream. (Well, as mainstream as anything having to do with ...

The folks at Automattic make the popular WordPress blogging software. And this week they released an app for Google Android that makes it easy to update or edit a WordPress site from your smartphone. Now, call me old fashioned, but I'm kind of a fan of physical keyboards for tasks such as writing lengthy blog posts, emails, or even instant messages. But the idea of being able to login to your ...

The team at Automattic is committed to making mobile blogging work with WordPress, and they're proving it with a new Wordpress Android app. WordPress for iPhone finally became usable with version 2, and the Android app seems to have skipped over the awkward growing pains the iPhone version went through. It already supports posting and editing on multiple accounts, as well as comment moderation. ...

Some nerd (seriously, it takes a nerd to uncover this kind of thing) has just discovered that WordPress now hosts an android.wordpress.org subdomain. It's currently a protected blog with nothing to see, but... I never thought I'd be the type to report website subdomain rumors (what next, trawling trademark repositories?) but this is one of those things that's more a matter of when rather than ...

Good news for users of the popular WordPress blogging platform: WordPress 2.9 has arrived, and it includes some major new features that make blogging easier, as well as hundreds of under-the-hood improvements to important stuff like databases and SEO. The most visible new features are a built-in image editor, a much easier way to embed video, a better plug-in updater, and a trash for your deleted ...

Popular blogging platform WordPress moved closer to version 2.9 this week with the launch of a new release candidate. WordPress 2.9 will include a number of new features including the ability to perform some basic edits to uploaded images from within the blogging client. That includes the ability to crop, rotate, and scale images. Other updates include: New Trash bin allows you to ...

Megablogging, meet microblogging. WordPress now supports posting to and reading your WordPress blogs through any Twitter client that allows custom APIs. Following a WordPress blog on Twitter means you get snippets and links to new posts, just like you'd get any other tweet. Connecting your own WordPress blog to Twitter means you can tweet and blog simultaneously. WordPress' Matt Mullenweg wrote ...

While most touch mobile devices like the iPhone render web pages surprisingly well, sometimes they are slow to load and difficult to read. Blogs, in particular, with their wide text areas tend to become difficult to read on small screens. If you run a WordPress blog, there's an option available to you called WPTouch. WPTouch is a theme package plugin that allows your blog to render a completely ...

Freebie downloads are always welcome. By a happy coincidence, Tutorial9 is offering a 25Mb download until November 26th, 2009 which contains four Wordpress themes, three Tumblr themes, and a whole slew of icons. Better still, the whole package can be used for commercial purposes. There's plenty of good quality stuff inside, from the grungy sticker icons above to the clean, simple designs WP ...

The first version of the Wordpress iPhone app showed a lot of promise as mobile blogging tool, but it was too slow and too buggy to use. It didn't know what to do with dropped connections -- all too common, when you're blogging from an AT&T iPhone -- and the UI was clunky and unintuitive. Round 2! Wordpress is back for another try at the iPhone thing, and this time they're far closer to doing ...

This summer the folks at Automattic asked users what features they'd most like to see in the next version of the popular WordPress blogging client. one of the most popular suggestions was image editing, and now it looks lke the developers are beginning to add image editing capabilities to WordPress. The image editor will be baked into WordPress 2.9 and won't require a plugin. The editing ...

Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has acquired a spiffy spellchecker called After The Deadline. It's now available on Wordpress blogs, and you can enable it in the Wordpress visual editor by clicking the ABC button with the green checkmark (If you're using a WordPress.org install, get the plugin). After the Deadline is smarter than the spellcheckers we're used to in desktop apps, because ...