A client had a WordPress theme that made use of timthumb.php to generate thumbnail images on the fly. If you check the documentation for the script, it tells you to set the permissions for the cache folder to “777″. This is short-hand for “all users are allowed to read, write, create and execute files in [...]
Browsing Posts in WordPress
In order to have a better idea who is visiting the company web-site and this blog, I’ve added Google Analytics to both. For this blog, I’m testing out Google Analyticator by Ronald Heft. So far, I’m impressed. It puts the required JavaScript on every page, which is the minimum that you’d expect. It also has [...]
I’ve been getting a lot of automated spam comments on my blog recently. Since the comments must be approved before they appear, this hasn’t created a problem for readers, but having to flag a dozen of them as spam every morning is a pain. A quick look through the plug-in repository for WordPress yielded this [...]
