Samboll,
Couldnt agree with you more. I knew some of the risks of using writeable php files, the trouble is word press uses so many that the risks seem to rise accordingly. Yes of course it doesnt help that wordpress is being adopted by relatively novice webmasters of which I consider myself to be one funny though when you enquire to so called professionals about help fixing the damage by a hack, seems I’m not as novice as I thought! Most havent a clue, either about making wordpress more secure, or fixing it after the fact. Having spent two days reading up on the subject, it became clear to me that I wasnt alone in these problems. It seems wordpress needs to find a polite way to either disuade those unqualified in php from using it, or at least have a better support system in place for helping fix the problems that come about as a result of those who dont have a degree in writing script from using the software. Having read the forums it seems very few people have a clue how to remedy many of these hacks.
