Tag Archive News

Byq292u

.. and we are back!

WordPress auto-updates went very wrong and crapped out the whole site.
This was not a good time to find out that the admin email wasn’t working..
I had to reset the admin user password from the database backend.
Useful learning exercise.
No worries, it’s all back now.

Byq292u

Jabweb – Passwords Reset..

I still have several websites registered, but not hosted at jabweb.
Last week, I received an e-mail stating that as part of their efforts to improve security, they had RESET ALL PASSWORDS on their system, and that I needed to e-mail them to find out what my new password(s) were.
So I tried it, and the e-mail BOUNCED.
I had used the address epcified in the e-mail.

So I tried logging in via their “client area”, and submitted a ticket. Eventually, they got back to me and asked me WHICH domains I was talking about? Surely they can work THAT out from my e-mail address?
*alarms bells start ringing*

Anyway, it turns out that I’m not affected, as my sites are not hosted with them. My colleague’s site, however, which IS hosted with them, and is LIVE, and commercial, and he’s STILL unable to access PLESK..

Surely, having reset all passwords for security reasons, it’s STUPID to send the passwords out via plain text e-mails? *alarm bells again*

It sounds (to me) like Jabweb have messed-up the passwords database, and had to hurriedly reset them. To make it look like it was intentionanal, they say it’s a “security issue”.. but to cock-up the e-mail address and then send out new e-mails containing passwords?

To say I’m concerned is one way of putting it. *air-raid sirens replace alarm bells*

Byq292u

Feedwordpress / links rss error fixed.

We had an error with epn rss feeds with feedwordpress. Nothing was Coming through.
Obvious solution was to replace the rss feeds. So we did, using the “links” manager as it’s quicker than fwp. And we got back unfiltered rss based on keywords only. It turns out that link manager chops the ends off the urls! Took a week to work that out.. had to re-enter all urls using fwp..

Posted from WordPress for Android

Byq292u

STOP SOPA / SOPA BLACKOUT

January 18th is STOP SOPA day.
This site will be participating in the SOPA blackout (18.1.2012)
The site will remain dark from 8am EST to 8pm.
For information on what this is all about, visit http://sopablackout.org/

Byq292u

Inline Keyword Advertising | Skimlinks

We are now using SKIMLINKS to monetise the content on some of our sites.
This works by creating shopping links for any keywords it finds in the content.
It’s simple to install, simply a WordPress plugin, once you have registered and been verified by Skimlinks.

The best configuration is via a custom domain, ie go.website.com, full instructions are given for doing this, but if you use PLESK, it’s in the DNS section, not the subdomains section..

Monetise YOUR website content using SKIMLINKS..