Aug - 23rd

Breaking News: Google Borks the Earth

Posted at 4:22 pm | Filed Under Google, coding, lackofmeds, nerdiness, search engines

Want to explore the entire planet from your computer? Normally all anyone wanting to do so would have to do would be to trot on over to Google Earth, download and install their application, and off globe trotting they could go. Today, unfortunately, those who do not already have the program installed are apparently out [...]

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Jun - 14th

Rackspace Hacked Clients, Check Your Databases: Wordpress “wp_optimize” Backdoor In wp_options Table

Posted at 8:16 pm | Filed Under Wordpress, blogthropology, coding, how-to, nerdiness

Just finished cleaning up a hacked client whose website is hosted on Rackspace Cloud hosting. It is the second one within the past few weeks, although the first one was actually hosting on Laughing Squid, which happens to use Rackspace Cloud. I had discovered that there were a large number of people all on the [...]

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May - 14th

GoDaddy’s Suggestion For The Cause Of Their Hacks And Their Community Blog – Can You Smell The Irony?

Posted at 3:52 pm | Filed Under Social Media, WTF, Wordpress, blogthropology, coding, customer service, lackofmeds, nerdiness, web design

Yesterday I blogged about the hacking situation with GoDaddy hosting and a customer service call I had with them concerning some evidence I had found. While it is true that as this has progressed GoDaddy has widened their scope in investigating what the underlying cause of these hacks are, initially they claimed that the issue [...]

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May - 13th

Hosting With GoDaddy? Might Want To Rethink That Decision.

Posted at 10:04 am | Filed Under WTF, Wordpress, blogthropology, coding, customer service

One of the services I offer people is cleaning their Wordpress installations of hacks and infections, mostly for those who might not have the time or technical expertise to follow my hacked Wordpress cleaning guide. Therefore when something happens that increases the number of people getting hacked, such as when a new exploit is discovered, [...]

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Mar - 18th

Test of Wordpress’s Default Slug Redirect: 301 or 302?

Posted at 10:06 am | Filed Under SEO, Wordpress, blogthropology, coding, nerdiness

Just a quick test to see if Wordpress by defaults redirects slug changes using a 301 or 302 redirect. The original url for this post is:
http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2010/03/18/test-of-wordpress-default-slug-redirect-301-or-302/
and I am going to change it to:
http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2010/03/18/wordpress-redirect-302-or-302/

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Mar - 13th

Stray Leftover Hacked Wordpress Database Entry: rzf.php

Posted at 11:27 am | Filed Under Wordpress, coding, how-to

I never use my uploads directory or Wordpress’s built in media management here on Smackdown, instead preferring to upload and manually insert the html for images myself in my posts (I know, I am weird that way), but my friend Donna has when she has guest blogged here in the past. I therefore knew that [...]

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Mar - 3rd

Don’t Think “If” You Will Get Hacked, Or Even “When” – Think In Terms Of “How Often”

Posted at 11:21 am | Filed Under Wordpress, blogthropology, coding, nerdiness

The following “guest post” was a comment left on “How To Completely Clean Your Wordpress Installation” by a gentleman named Daniel J. Dick. He makes some excellent points, and due to it’s length I decided to feature the comment in it’s own post, rather than approve it in place. Enjoy.
I think Nick sums up how [...]

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May - 15th

Is Plagiarism Ok… If It Was An Accident?

Posted at 3:19 pm | Filed Under Social Media, Wordpress, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds

Last year I wrote this handy little script named EasyWP. It makes installing Wordpress much easier for those without Fantastico or shell access, and is many times faster than having to upload all of the files individually. It’s very useful, especially if you install Wordpress on a regular basis, or if you need to do [...]

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Apr - 16th

Google Decides To Slow Down Search Results And Cloak Their New Tracking URLS

Posted at 12:09 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, web design

Today over at ReadWriteWeb Sarah Perez wrote an article on how Google was gaining ground on their share of the search market. In the article she talked about the latest buzz from Google Analytics blog having to do with changes to the way Google.com handles clicks in their serps, which were a implemented as result [...]

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Mar - 13th

Google Re-initiates Testing of AJAX SERP’s With Faulty Proposed Fix

Posted at 11:14 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds

Last month I blogged about the fact that I had noticed that Google was playing around with delivering the SERP’s via AJAX. I pointed out that due to the way that referrers work, using AJAX to generate the pages would cause all traffic coming from Google to look like it was coming from Google’s homepage [...]

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