Wordpress Exploit - Blogroll Hacking With Spam Links
November 15th, 2007 by Dave in Blogs and Blogging
One of my hosting clients contacted me today about an issue he was having with his Wordpress install (version 2.1.2) being hacked and over 50 spam links added to his blogrolls. The links were to a page on the Texas A&M University website :
http://csworkshops.tamu.edu/Templates/_notes/cache/accutane/index.html
The link is a re-direct to a prescription drug peddling site :
http://trustedtablets.com
Which [...]
Wordpress Hack : SEO Friendly Titles
October 7th, 2007 by Dave in Blogs and Blogging
Wordpress is the greatest blogging software ever created, however there are a few issues with a standard Wordpress install aren’t exactly the most SEO (Search Engine Optimization) friendly if you’re running Wordpress straight “out of the box”. Particularly the way Wordpress handles page titles for individual post pages. Below is an example of a [...]
Wordpress Hack : Add a Digg Button to Your Posts
July 31st, 2007 by Dave in Blogs and Blogging
I know there’s several Wordpress Plugins available to add a “Digg It” button to your Wordpress blog, but I still prefer to add hacks in my Wordpress theme to accomplish the functionality without having to bother searching for, downloading and installing a Wordpress Plugin. As a webmaster with several Wordpress blogs and several different versions, [...]
Wordpress Plugins
July 27th, 2007 by Dave in Blogs and Blogging
The one thing about Wordpress bloggers is that they’re always looking for new ways to extend thefunctionality of their blogs through Wordpress Plugins or by using Wordpress Hacks. While I generally enjoy coding hacks for my blogs, occasionally I do enjoy finding new plugins. I’ve recently been on a quest to find some plugins [...]
Wordpress Hack : Most Popular Articles
July 24th, 2007 by Dave in Blogs and Blogging
Being a software developer and programmer by trade, sometimes I find it easier to crack open my Zen Develpoment Enviornment and hack my Wordpress theme rather than search for an appropriate plugin that may or may not work. Today, I was fooling around with optimizong my blogs and wanted to add a “Most Popular Articles” [...]
MillionRSS Project
July 19th, 2007 by Dave in Blogs and Blogging
I just came across another blog directory that might be useful for your blog promotion as most of us are always appreciative of a free backlink. The MillionRSS Project’s goal is collect and organize over 1 million RSS feeds from bloggers worldwide. While it’s a quite ambitious effort, they have already collected over 146,000 feeds [...]
Wordpress Plugin - Digg IT
July 12th, 2007 by Dave in Blogs and Blogging
I’ve been searching around for a while for a really good Digg Wordpress Plugin and haven’t been having much luck finding one that works well and is easily configurable. The other day I just happened upon a nifty little plugin called "digg IT" from the design company Tuggo (http://www.tuggo.org). The plugin allows visitors to your [...]
101 Free Ways to Increase Blog Traffic
May 23rd, 2007 by Dave in Blogs and Blogging
I came across an interesting blog by a fellow named George Manty entitled “Can I Make Big Money Online” which has quite a few interesting articles related to blogging and one in particular caught my attention and I thought it might be helpful to pass it along to anyone reading this blog.
The article is [...]
Finding Free Wordpress Themes
May 22nd, 2007 by Dave in Blogs and Blogging
I’ve had quite a few bloggers on my forum asking me where to find Free Wordpress Themes. Beside the usual themes that are available at the Wordpress website, here’s a few other sites that I’ve found that offer some high quality free themes.
http://www.web2themes.com/
http://www.romow.com/blog/category/free-wordpress-themes/
http://www.themesbase.com/?category=wordpress
You should be able to find something to your liking with those three [...]
The Marketing Technology Blog by Douglas Karr
May 2nd, 2007 by Dave in Blogs and Blogging
I’d like to take this opportunity to share a link to a fellow blogger who has a fantastic blog, and a must read if you’re a blogger using [tag]Wordpress[/tag] software and interested in [tag]SEO[/tag] techniques to help promote your blog. The Marketing Technology Blog by Douglas Karr is a marketing, development, wordpress and technology [...]



