Had an idea to extract all the unique words from my blog post titles and sort and rank them by frequency. I used MySQL, sed, tr, grep, cat and a little bash script hacked together to do this. Here’s the top 10 unique words in my blog post titles. Occurrences Word 150 Windows 46 Server…
Read More Extracting unique words from all my blog post titlesA small WordPress plugin to create a BOFH excuse using a shortcode anywhere on your WordPress website shortcodes are supported. Usage The rolling stones concert down the road caused a brown out Output Example
Read More WP-BOFHI’ve been trying to learn some Python and have been tinkering with the requests module. Here is how I am able to log into a webpage, such as WordPress. import requests url = “https://techish.net/wp-login.php” redirect_to = “https://techish.net/wp-admin/” with requests.Session() as session: post = session.post(url, data={ ‘log’: ‘admin’, ‘pwd’: ‘password’, ‘redirect_to’: redirect_to }, allow_redirects=True) get =…
Read More Login to WordPress from PythonI’m testing out the development version of TwentyTwenty theme from WordPress on this site. I noted that calls to /assets/fonts/inter/Inter-upright.var.woff2 were causing some grief for Apache2 (Error 500): AH00681: Syntax error in type map, no ‘:’ in /var/www/clients/client0/web1/web/wp-content/themes/twentytwenty/assets/fonts/inter/Inter-upright.var.woff2 for header wof2 Cursory Google search indicates that Apache2 is interpreting filenames with .var.* in the name…
Read More WordPress TwentyTwenty Theme – Inter font Apache2 errorI created a WordPress plugin based on a personal dilemma I ran into with my site being stripped of backslashes. Upon post save, it converts backslashes to HTML entity ] which is what will be stored in the database. The plugin is available on GitHub at https://github.com/rjkreider/wp-preserve-backslashesHere’s the function if you want to just drop…
Read More WP Preserve BackslashesDiscovered that my most recent conversion from SQLite to MySQL seems to have screwed up my backslashes in all my posts that have backslashes. This is bad because my code snippets should not be copy & pasted and run at face value unless you verify the code! It could seriously break shit. Ugh. This is…
Read More All my backslashes are gone in WordPress. Yikes.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 commands I used: sqlite techish.db .dump > production_2018-08-23.dump.sql I found that it used quotes…
Read More WordPress SQLite to MySQL Migration CompleteA 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.
Read More WordPress Unauthorized Password Reset Vulnerability (CVE-2017-8259)A typical installation of Debian 8.x (Jessie) precedes this where I only select base system and ssh server options during operating system installation. After installation, this is a typical configuration to get me up and running. These are my notes.
Read More From Linux Install to WordPressSecurity 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.
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