mod_security is a well known web application firewall for Apache that is easy to setup and provides a fair amount of protection from web malware and can even provide some protection from comment spam. The benefits of mod_security have been discussed over and over again and with the recent unforeseen problems with WordPress (In case you have not heard about it, if you have not upgraded your WordPress 2.1.1 installation, you need to do it NOW), mod_security would have provided a level of security if it was installed. Since I had to install mod_security on one of my servers, the steps are fresh in my mind and worth a post. All of the steps below are assuming that you have some sort of a LAMP installation over which you have complete control. If you are on a shared host on LAMP, you will have to ask your provider to install […]
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Upgrade WordPress via Shell guides you to upgrading your existing WordPress installation to the latest one if you have shell access to your hosting account. And if you haven’t upgraded to 2.1.2 yet, then please do so immediately to ensure that your WordPress 2.1 installation doesn’t get compromised.
[Continue Reading...]FeedBurner Stats is a plugin which gives you FeedBurner Stats without redirecting your users the FeedBurner feeds. So, you keep your subscribers on your site but still get the stats. Post Templates lets you create templates for your posts so that you don’t spend time copy-pasting the same code across different posts. phpBB recent topics lists of recent phpBB threads or Topics displayed in WordPress. Pinky and the Brain displays a random Brain word in the top right corner, similar to Hello Dolly. The download link doesn’t to be working right now
[Continue Reading...]ColourFull Wall is a black minimalist theme, highly customisable, lightning fast, easy to deploy and use while supporting the vast majority of plugins out there. It is SEO optimised coming with a built-in sitemap and archives page template. More little nifty goodies are built down into it like some quick shooting stats of the blog and bookmark link in the posts. Studiengang-Verzeichnis has released three themes viz. Theme1, Blue and Clean and Red and Clean. Psalm 8 is a two column widget ready theme by Joni.
[Continue Reading...]Feedburner Feed Stats is a simple plugin that I put together with the ideas (and some of the code) from an article that I was reading yesterday for a WordPress hack of sorts. The idea is good and the code is simple. Since a lot of people like the subscriber statistics offered by Feedburner but want to continue to offer feeds directly through WordPress, if there was a way to pass on every feed request made to WordPress transparently onto Feedburner, Feedburner would be able to gather subscription data. 45n5 came up with the concept and some of the code for the WordPress hack. I took some of that code, some more code from transparent proxy scripts, added a smattering of more code on suggestions from Eric Lunt along with the plugin framework that was already built by Steve Smith and am ready to alpha test my version of the […]
[Continue Reading...]RockinPaper 3 Column is a blue and grey, clean and simple widgetized theme designed with a newspaper flair for reading and customization. RockinSoft is an elegant 2 column widgetized theme with rounded corners and soft colors. Bubbles is a two column theme available in four colors with and without adsense.
[Continue Reading...]34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Your Blog: Darren had asked the question, Why do readers unsubscribe from your blog’s feed? and he tabulated the answers in the comments. Much of the answers are unsurprising but the top two reasons are too many posts and too few posts respectively. So the answer there might be to post just enough entries to keep people coming back and just few enough to keep from overwhelming them. I have found proof of that hypothesis in that the daily updates of plugins and themes on weblogtoolscollection.com works best in single consolidated posts. Other important factors included off topic posts, partial feeds and finally good content. I love Scoble’s comment on that post. There is a lot to be said for “do what you love, put stuff up you’d love to read, and the rest will fall into place.”
[Continue Reading...]How to Start Your Own Blog takes a look at several blogging services both remote-hosted and self hosted. A good read for someone wanting to start their own blog.
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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