Archive for the ‘WordPress’ Category.
29th June 2005, 10:21 am
If you’re running a [WordPress][] blog, then please go upgrade now to version 1.5.1.3. A serious security vulnerability has been found in version 1.5.1.2 “Strayhorn” which can lead to remote code execution.
Read the official announcement here.
11th June 2005, 10:04 am
The search functionality offered by [WordPress][] is — how to put it? — simple. You type some words and it makes a LIKE
query against the titles and contents of your posts. So that’s kind of slow, doing a full scan through the posts
table for each search without using any indexes at all.
What is worse is that it looks like the results are ordered by date and not relevance. So I’ve now made a little box which uses Google to search the site, which will hopefully give better results. As always, let me know what you think of this.
9th June 2005, 12:30 pm
In my continued effort to make my site faster and better I’ve enabled gzip
compression of the output produced by [WordPress][]. So if you’re on a slow link, then you should be able to download the pages faster. Of course this comes at a price for the server, which now has to work a little more to compress the pages. Please let me know if you notice a slowdown because of this.
2nd June 2005, 11:19 pm
You can now leave comments on all the pages here and not just on posts. “Pages” are [WordPress][] terminology for static things, such as my [PHP Tutorial][], and “posts” are the date-based stuff like what you’re reading now.
31st May 2005, 10:43 pm
Having just read the very interesting and throughout explaination by
Michel Fortin of his problems with the WordPress filters
when trying to get [PHP Markdown][] right, I think it’s amazing that
it works at all!
His experience together with the recent discussion started by
Denis de Bernardy about the plugin system (and specifically the
hooks offered to plugins) seems to suggest that the whole system could
use some rethinking. (And when doing so, then please document it! :-)