Blog Level Security

  • apoetik

    (@apoetik)


    17 years, 11 months ago

    Hey guys, quick question…I am using Yahoo to host my blog and it came with WordPress 2.3.3.

    Not sure if I want to upgrade, because we’ve got a pretty strong following now and I’m not ready yet to derail that momentum…any rate, we want to enable site level security in order to capture the email addresses for the people looking at our site.

    Does anyone have any advice on this? I already read the WordPress FAQ and it was not specific to my situation.

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  • scribblerguy

    (@scribblerguy)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    Upgrade. Moving from 2.3 to 2.5 should be painless, unless you’re using some not-so common plugin or theme.

    any rate, we want to enable site level security in order to capture the email addresses for the people looking at our site.

    Does anyone have any advice on this?

    Capture email addresses? Capture email addresses? That’s so very “black hat.” For example, spammers capture email addresses by scraping sites. So, don’t even think about it.

    I’m guessing that you read somewhere that browsers can send email addresses when requesting web pages and such. Modern browsers don’t do this and in the HTTP/1.1 spec, such stuff is opt-in anyway.

    haochi

    (@haochi)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    He probably just mean having the visitors to enter their email address, not “capturing” them in the way you described (XSS?). Maybe you are right though, I don’t read minds (yet).

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