Just finished migrating my website from SQLite to MySQL. What a rush. (lol) It was actually not as bad as I thought. A lot of sed, grep and other sorcery involved; especially in transforming of SQLite statements to MySQL. Some quick...
A vulnerability reported to WordPress in July 2016 was publicly released recently and identified as CVE-2017-8259. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to a victim's WordPress account....
Security vulnerabilities are addressed in WordPress 4.7.2. An XSS and SQL injection vulnerability (wp_query()) were discovered and have been patched. Update your sites....
If the Forgot password option doesn’t work for you (which it really should), then you can change the password of your self-hosted WordPress login. Check the contents of wp-config.php for the database login. Use that login information for MySQL login. define('DB_NAME',...
I had some time at lunch to kill, so I decided to see how Malware techniques were improving in the land of WordPress and free premium theme download sites. Enter the Darknet. A simple Google search got me a theme ZIP...
A vulnerability has been discovered in the Disqus plugin for WordPress allowing for Remote Code Execution. The Disqus plugin is used on nearly 2 million WordPress blogs. Who is Vulnerable? A remote attacker could successfully execute remote code provided the following version of...
This will add a Login or Logout (depending on state) to your WordPress navigation menu. I have one on mine now; makes it easy to quickly log in/out to test things. Put the following in your child theme’s custom functions PHP...
Here is an all-in-one solution for a portable WordPress. The creator packs MySQL, PHP, Apache and WordPress together and allows you to drop this folder onto a thumbdrive or network share, etc. It’s nice and small (<30MB) and works well. WordPress...
I was annoyed by how the Top 10 plugin didn’t give me a better control of placement of the Visits/Visited string, so I got to work figuring out where to move things around. First, I found that the data is printed...