Just create a bookmark with the following as the link (only for Mozilla): The encoding in WP is messing things up, here is the link to the text file with the javascript bookmarklet. Once you have typed in or pasted code into a form somewhere on a <em>Mozilla page<⁄em>, clicking on this link will encode the elements on the form. The way it stands, it should encode < , >, \ and / It can be modified to encode everything in the ascii alphabet. 🙂 Have fun and let me know how it works out for you! Attribution: Original idea courtesy of ScriptyGoddess, Javascript “Textarea” hack to get around DOM selection problems courtesy of Steve Minutillo All I did was hack the code! 🙂 As per an email question from SouthernGal , I realize that I should have mentioned the way around Mozilla to actually make this a bookmarklet. So […]

The latest Blogging Survey Results are out from BlogsearchEngine.com. Take a closer look. Some of the items are not very surprising (such as 52.3% of bloggers surveyed use Google’s Blogger as their blogging platform of choice) but this information can be used very creatively by the media and PR entities to exploit this growing phenomenon.

A WP user asked about the best way to restrict access to the WP directory (on the WordPress forums) and I posted an answer without realizing that I should have explained myself further. Dougal added his own post which, I thought, was really well put and deserved a mention. He explains the intricacies of securing WordPress and in the process, explains file/directory permissions for UN*X/Linux servers as well. Good, quick, relatively complete explanation. Here is the link to the discussion.