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  Dan Bernardic 10:42 pm on October 17, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Joomla!, malware cleanup, Security   

  I was working on cleaning up a Joomla! website from malware tonight briefly.

  I used http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/ to scan site, then this script: https://github.com/walkeralencar/rrnuVaccine , which is specific to a particular hack, but also read this site: http://devilsworkshop.org/tutorial/remove-evalbase64decode-malicious-code-grep-sed-commands-files-linux-server/55587/ , which speaks more generally about eval(base64_decode injections into your php files. I read the rrnuVaccine code before running it although I was fairly sure it is fine since it is publicly hosted on GitHub.

  Once I was done with that, I used the Sucuri scanner linked to above, and confirmed the site is free of malware now. I used the “Blacklisting status” tab to check that the site is only blacklisted by Google.

  Then I submitted a request to Google Webmaster tools to review my site to get it removed from the blacklist.

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    RodSalm 8:31 am on October 18, 2012 Permalink | Reply

    I had just read about Sucuri, good to know other people (who actually know what they are doing) use it.

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  RodSalm 10:10 am on October 10, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: wordpress security   

  Here’s my morning read:

  http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2012/10/09/four-malware-infections-wordpress/

  http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2010/07/01/10-useful-wordpress-security-tweaks/

  http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/10-steps-to-securing-your-wordpress-installation/

  http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/07/website-malware-removal-wordpress-tips-tricks.html

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    Dan Bernardic 10:39 am on October 10, 2012 Permalink | Reply

    Pah. Is there a reason you’re reading about that stuff?

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      Dan Bernardic 7:19 am on October 11, 2012 Permalink | Reply

      He says he is educating himself since there have been a number of failed login attempts and such.

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    Rod Salm 2:41 pm on October 11, 2012 Permalink | Reply

    Studying up. I’ve had a lot of false login attempts at one of my sites. I have a login limit through Better WP Security but wanted to know more about what I can do to make my site secure. While back, Dan did a great presentation on secure WP installs, that was my introduction (do you have a link to that presentation Dan?)

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      Dan Bernardic 8:23 pm on October 11, 2012 Permalink | Reply

      It’s here: http://wpwpg.com/winnipegwp.php

      It’s no http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/ , but it is pretty based on a pretty neat presentation framework.

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  Dan Bernardic 12:58 pm on October 7, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Plugin Favourites, Plugin Repository ( 2 ), WordPress News ( 3 ), wpmail.me ( 2 )   

  I read the latest wpmail.me newsletter release this morning. It mentions a plugin for adding a widget that lists your WordPress.org plugin favorites.

  I added it to the sidebar here, listing my favorites. I can add yours if you have a list – I looked through some of the meetup members’ profiles, no one really had favorites.

  I modified the plugin to have a widget option to add a link to profile below plugin list, so you can see the rest of my favorites. I also added a widget option to shuffle the plugins so that it does not show the same plugins every time. The plugin is developed on GitHub, so I put in a pull request.

  I see the author on the IRC channel often.

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  Dan Bernardic 1:11 am on September 23, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Developer Plugin, Free Software ( 3 ), Pull Request, Rewrite Rules Inspector   

  I made a pull request for a small bug fix on the Rewrite Rules Inspector plugin.

  Also notice the Developer plugin, if you haven’t yet.

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    Dan Bernardic 5:39 pm on September 25, 2012 Permalink | Reply

    It got accepted. Pretty sweet. This is my highest profile contribution to free software to date.

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  RodSalm 3:33 pm on September 11, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Anyone run into this issue: bad thumbnail PNG’s in an RSS feed from WordPress? When I upload a PNG as a comic on my site, the auto-generated thumbnails for the RSS feed are, well, chewed up. That is, they look like a bad photocopy. Thoughts? Here’s my feed: http://www.deathatyourdoor.com/feed/ You’d have to subscribe to see what I mean.

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    Dan Bernardic 8:03 pm on September 11, 2012 Permalink | Reply

    Hi Rod,

    Are you talking about images like this one: http://www.deathatyourdoor.com/comics-rss/2012-09-03-20120903_FairLife.png ?

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    rodsalm 8:04 pm on September 11, 2012 Permalink | Reply

    Yep. Only happens when I upload a PNG. It’s the RSS sized version.

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    cgnoto 8:35 pm on September 11, 2012 Permalink | Reply

    Looks like a channel problem with the original image.

    All that chewed up part is being knocked out as transparency it looks like.

    Question (assuming you’re using photoshop): Do you “save as web” or just “save as” and choose .png?

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    rodsalm 8:49 pm on September 11, 2012 Permalink | Reply

    Save for Web. PNG 24 with transparency.

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      cgnoto 10:45 am on September 12, 2012 Permalink | Reply

      I realize this can save a bit of space, but why the transparency?
      Personally I’d avoid it.

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        cgnoto 10:49 am on September 12, 2012 Permalink | Reply

        aah wait, I just looked at your site, I can see why you need the transparency now.

        Actually I subscribed to your feed and I’m looking a little deeper now.
        I’ll reply again soon.

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          cgnoto 11:00 am on September 12, 2012 Permalink | Reply

          Odd, I “thought” i caught it.

          it started to appear that any RGB .PNG file was workign but any grayscale or index .PNG was giving errors, but your most recent post is an index .PNG and it’s fine.

          Did you do anything different with your export settings?

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    Dan Bernardic 10:41 am on September 12, 2012 Permalink | Reply

    Hey Rod,

    Can you find a link to the original file this thumbnail was created from and post it here?

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    rodsalm 11:16 am on September 12, 2012 Permalink | Reply

    The main comic on each post is the graphic. http://www.deathatyourdoor.com/comics/2012-09-10-20120910_life_comment.png that the thumbnail versions are generated from. BUT you may be right with the RGB vs grayscale. I upgraded my photoshop back in April, rebuilt my action, so I’ll double check that the action isn’t outputing RGB PNG.

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      cgnoto 11:26 am on September 12, 2012 Permalink | Reply

      I would just look at your most recent. (which seems to have worked fine)
      and see if you can duplicate that.

      OR

      Just go Greyscale PNG with no transparencies leave the white box behind the whole comic. (This would make your copyright line clearer and easier to read.)

      On a side-note…. I think I went to high school with your wife. Is she from Brandon?

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    rodsalm 9:40 am on September 17, 2012 Permalink | Reply

    Think I have it figured out, INDEX PNG’s are the one’s getting chewed. Which is odd, since the large image the thumbnails are being generated from aren’t using the INDEX colour space. Grayscale is working fine (today’s cartoon is an example). I’ll have to see why INDEX is being generated when the image is RGB. Thanks for all the thoughts!

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      Dan Bernardic 8:38 am on September 22, 2012 Permalink | Reply

      Oh cool. I wasn’t sure whether you had figured it out.

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  Dan Bernardic 9:52 pm on September 8, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: add_post_type_support, Admin UI ( 2 ), ordering posts, query params, register_post_type   

  Just noticed you can provide ‘page-attributes’ to the ‘supports’ array when using register_post_type(), or use it with add_post_type_support(), to add a Order field to the post editing interface.

  You can then use the value in there in your query with the ‘menu_order’ option for the ‘orderby’ query param.

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    RodSalm 9:30 am on September 10, 2012 Permalink | Reply

    I signed up at your suggestion, thanks Dan. I’ll let you know what I think after a few messages.

    ­Rod Salm
    Death At Your Door, a weekly webcomic about Death trying to live a life.

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  RodSalm 1:55 pm on September 5, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: social media plugin list   

  Found this list of social media plugins for WordPress today, thought I’d share. http://www.noupe.com/wordpress/the-ultimate-collection-of-wordpress-social-network-plugins-71239.html

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  Dan Bernardic 1:41 pm on August 30, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Plugins ( 10 )   

  I was listening in on the WordPress Support team’s meeting, and heard about this: http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/wp-help-one-dot-oh/

  A plugin for setting up documentation for your site’s back-end users.

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  Dan Bernardic 10:01 am on August 30, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: WordPress News ( 3 ), wpmail.me ( 2 )   

  Anyone signed up with wpmail.me ? I just signed up this week, and today’s issue seems pretty cool.

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  Dan Bernardic 10:53 pm on August 27, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Fork, Justin Tadlock, Query Posts, Top Plugins ( 5 )   

  Working on a website which needs a list of posts in a widget area…seems like the goto plugin is Query Posts, but it does not let you define the HTML of the posts within the loop.

  I forked the code on GItHub and enabled templating using a file called content-query-posts.php in the theme. The GItHub repo is here: https://github.com/dbernar1/Query-Posts-Widget

  Anyone used a good plugin for the same functionality?

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    Alexander Trauzzi (@Omega_) 7:16 am on August 28, 2012 Permalink | Reply

    I encountered this issue on a WordPress I (reluctantly) made a while back. Seems like this level of customization doesn’t often occur to the community.

    Maybe one day they will build WordPress on symfony components

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      Dan Bernardic 7:34 am on August 28, 2012 Permalink | Reply

      Good morning Alex,

      No, it occurs all the time, but either it is available through one of the other plugins for this kind of thing, or just people don’t release their code after they make this mod usually.

      WordPress on Symfony? That’s like saying let’s rebuild the iMac with death-star space scrap!

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        Dan Bernardic 7:35 am on August 28, 2012 Permalink | Reply

        OK, fine, not _exactly_ like it, but I couldn’t come up with a better analogy!

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    rodsalm 9:02 am on August 28, 2012 Permalink | Reply

    I’d buy that iMac.