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On March 2 it was reported by wordpress (http://www.wordpress.org) that their latest update to their highly popular blogging software was compromised by a cracker.  They are urging all users who had downloaded and installed the version 2.1.1 recently to apply the updated version, 2.1.2, which contains a few minor updates and entirely verified files.

Now, there is no need to panic if you have any other version of wordpress than 2.1.1, and not even all of those version downloads were compromised - according to wordpress in their posting about the event.  To be on the safe side, though, the blogging software giant has declared that the entire 2.1.1 update is dangerous, and that when upgrading to version 2.1.2 will fix any issues caused by this malicious, quasi-successful attempt of defiling the blogging software and jeopardizing the server security of the software’s users.

You can read the entire post on the wordpress website (http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/) covering this issue.

Wordpress is almost undoubtedly the most popular blogging software that you can install on your own website. With that position at the top - there is the possibility of exploitation of a lot of vulnerabilities; especially with being an open source application. If you happen to run a website with a wordpress blog installed, you likely already know the constant havoc that comment spammers can throw at you. Smaller, less popular blogs might get a few spam comments a week: larger, more popular blogs face the relentless thrashing of blog spam each and every day. These blogs appreciate the tools that can help keep the comment spammers at bay, at least they appreciate any help that can help them combat this problem in an automated way. The net-security.org website lists 10 wordpress anti spam tools (http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=987&p=1): which you should check out if you’re having an issue with comment spam and your Wordpress blog.

I have just signed up at payperpost.com. I got involved via the Digital Pooint forums.

I recieved an offer to do 10 posts for 50usd. So I thought I would give it a whirl and see.

I will post here all about the process and how it goes for me.

Thank you wordpress. ILet me explain, I am in the middle of recovering a corrupted database in a wordpress site of mine.

 I messed up adn deleted the password for admin login. And my email is dead.

But thankfully I found this solution in the codex for being able to change password from myphpadmin.

Here is the link to the page in the codex

http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password

Here:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/community_building/3033644.htm

and here:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/community_building/3040091.htm

The akismet pluggin has proven to been great. It actually comes in the wordpress install. I understand why. Its great.

It took all of 2 minutes to get it up and running, and thats because I did not have a wordpress API. And had to create an account over at wordpress.com to get it.

It filttered all the spam I recieved last night in www.a-ing.com. Only 5, but its a new blog, so that is one problem nicely nipped in the bud.

I have a reasonable new blog (yes you guessed it, its a word press install) over at http://www.a-ing.com/. It is a web review site. It is a site that has been reconverted from a domain I bought about a month ago. The site gets about 60 visitors a day.

And I am getting this spam attack:

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So I will have a look into spam solutions. Will post my thoughts and finding here later.

To be honest I am not exactly sure why I got the domain name, but I have been using WP for about 6 months now, and I like it. I really like it.

I have used it with a couple of clients, and it is effective and efficient.

I have found that as I have gone deeper into what it can and cannot do `out of the box´ and have tunned some of the coding. I am not a programmer, but with trial and error you can pretty much do most things.

I will blog about all things wordpress and when I get the time, will start a wordpress directory. I wonder when I will find the time to do that?

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