Musings of Wired Pig

This is not my usual post on how I was able to hack Wordpress to get it to do what I wanted. This post falls under the umbrella of black hat and your blog at risk.

If you run a self hosted wordpress blog and want your site to be easily viewable by mobile devices, you NEED to check out WPTouch.
WPTouch version 1.9.2.2 brings more interactivity to your posts as well as making them browser friendly for devices using a web kit browser (iPhone, iPod Touch and Google ANdroid).
Recent additions that [...]

Its been awhile since I posted my current .htaccess file, so I thought I’d to that.

# My server has PHP4 enabled by default

# But we want to use PHP5

AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php

AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4

AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php

# My error document. When I point it to a page I get

# Unable to Locate… so pfft on that.

ErrorDocument 403 [...]

Its all about learning to love and pimp out your .htaccess file. Making it earn its keep and, hopefully, giving you more confidence that your blog isn’t goingto be overrun while your not home.

The blog has been upgraded from WordPress 2.5.1 to 2.6
You can read more about the changes in WordPress versions here.

I wanted a way to ad a Creative Commons notice at the bottom of each post and I wanted the plugin to be able to pick what license was used based on the post authors preference. That lead me, over the last few days, to create the Creative Commons Post plugin.

I have never gotten hit information for mobile web users on the blog . So I looked at my mobile site and saw that phones and such were not being counted.
The header and footer files did not have the wp_head or wp_footer commands. For good reason. But this also blocked the stats program from working. [...]

I’m not sure what else to call the recent spade of attacks my server has faced in the last few days. But I have thwarted them, for now.
Please DON’T search my site for the terms: inject, string or http or you will be bounced out.
Now, onto a summary of the suspicious activity.
I am an AVID [...]

NOTICE: Downloads Active -
Arun Kale has changed the licensing for theme distribution. As a result I am releasing TWO versions of my modified version. See the download section for details.
The Morning After, Modified (TMAM) is my modification of The Morning After WordPress Theme by The Master Plan.

TMAM allows for the use of uploaded images [...]

I am obsessive/compulsive when it comes to reading my server or blog access logs. As a result I usually spot new robots and people doing ill pretty quick. It also allows me to spot cool sites and organizations accessing my site as well.
I have been watching a few Israeli IP’s accessing my site lately. [...]