The RSS specification allows you to have an element in the header of your RSS feed.  A long time ago, if you used Wordpress, you'd have to edit the wp-rss.php file and be very careful when you upgraded to new releases, or your change could be lost.

But if you use a modern version of Wordpress, you should take advantage of the do_action(' ( Read more... )

How did I miss this?  The latest update (to 2.3.3) fixes an exploit that may have been used at my own site.

For me, the update process looked like this:

1. ssh to my blog's directory.
2. svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.3

Yea!

I was doing some general cleanup around the blog. (Considering widgetizing the sidebar...) I re-validated the XHTML, and some errors came up. The following code was inserted into the content of a post. (Which is contained inside a MySQL item.)

CD and DVD films available for download at download movies site, cheap prices and fast downloading.

The ( Read more... )

How hard do I rock?  Let me give you an example.

Date:  The near future.

Scene: David's blog, a jewel of php code, with a few custom modifications to the WordPress framework.  Does anybody else have an element in their in their feed-rss.php family?  Doubtful.  Oh, how about user friendly "there's more content this way" ellipses in their ( Read more... )

I'm a big fan of Wordpress (I use its code at my own site and they host my work blog).  So although I'm very much done with flamewars, the Duncan Riley article on Matt Mullenweg's feeling about monetizing Open Source (and its thread) at TechCrunch caught my attention.

Duncan and Matt go at it in the comments.  But that's not what interests me.  It's ( Read more... )

My latest daddy blog contains a little illustrative mouse art.  It's so bad, it works.

I took the day off to do some Halloweeney stuff with the family. But I got to sneak in an hour or two to do work, which is sorely needed.

Except, well, I noticed that my blog's backend is WordPress 2.0.4, but 2.0.5 is out now. And, well, I simply have to upgrade. Security fixes and all. But I mustn't forget to merge in my personal tweaks, lest I ( Read more... )

It's time to clean up some of the automated processes at my website. I've got processes that generate Zeitgeist and referrer pages. These processes use lists (which are themselves automatically updated with "suspected new" entries) of known-good-search-engines and known-referrer-spam sites. But, eventually, I have to go in and check that the ( Read more... )