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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress Codex and what wikis do for meWow, the thread goes 10 minutes without a reply and then three of us chime in with the same answer in the space of a minute. What is it they say about buses…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress Codex and what wikis do for meThe codex is powered by mediawiki.
Edit: webdawg beat me to it:-)Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Poker Blog – Opinions?Dammit Coldforged, you beat me to it:-) If I wasn’t also preoccupied with installing RoR…
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Poker Blog – Opinions?It’ll be better if you try to keep test/development in a sandbox. The easiest way to do this is install WP into another directory (yoursite.com/test/ for example) and then you can play around on that.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Binary Moon – new blog in townI’ve been to your site before and the site looks as impressive now as it did then. Good job.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Security Breach in WP?Matt, I agree completely. Apologies for the wild suppositions.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Security Breach in WP?Hmmm… going to root’s blog, I just saw the install message again. Clicked refresh and it’s gone i.e. usual blog entries.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Security Breach in WP?Unfortunately Matt, I saw the same situation as described by the “hacker” on Root’s site. Navigating to Root’s blog (on one occasion only) bought up the “Are you ready to install message”.
Now, here’s what could have happened. MySQL could have incorrectly reported the results for select count(*) from wp_users (corruption in datastream, db server flakiness, incorrect retrieval of values from config file for table prefix, whatever).
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Security Breach in WP?Normally, it doesn’t make a difference. Running install.php again should have no effect as it detects if an installation is already there. However, in certain situations, something goes wrong.
An off-the-cuff hypothesis: WP temporarily is unable to connect to MySQL and hence this check fails. It assumes that it’s a fresh installation. Hence, it goes on to recreate the tables, junking the whole db.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Security Breach in WP?“Some people cannot see a fine thing without the need to desecrate it.”
This is off-topic and neither here or there, but the guy left a post where he sounded apologetic saying that it was curiosity rather than malicious intent. From my experiences (seeing the error message) and the language, I’m inclined to believe him/her.If anything, this probably makes it worse. If a blog can be junked this easily, then I’d be more worried, not less.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Security Breach in WP?A word of caution guys. When I clicked on a post on Root’s blog, I received the “click install.php to beginâ€? message the first time around.
As a safety check, I’d remove install.php from your wp-admin directory. They have no function outside of the install procedure anyways.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to extract all posts to one category and move to a new database?“Dude. You rule.”
I try but there’s this guy called Tony Blair who seems to disagree:-) Glad it worked for you.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to extract all posts to one category and move to a new database?Are you sure you need to do that? If you add the following to the top of your index.php, you can exclude all the posts from the unwanted category (where 5 is obviously the category_id that you want to exclude).
<?php query_posts('cat=-5');?>Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Portfolio, Blog, Gallery: New HotnessA wonderful design in every way. Good job!
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: DreamHost and Receiving Pingbacks“They say you can still use most things with curl (?) but I have no idea what that would entail”
It’ll mean you have to rewrite the components that use fopen to use curl instead. Only really a viable option for those who have some knowledge of php.