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If you have a WordPress blog and you still scraping your head trying to find out why you’ve been attacked by the Penguin although you did nothing wrong, it just might relate to your blog’s theme or plugins.

I recently revealed that there are much more than a few WordPress plugins, widgets and themes that injects hidden links into the page! Google clearly stating on its content guidelines for webmasters that hidden links are a violation of its guidelines which may even result a complete removal from Google index!

Some plugins’ developers insert the hidden links so they...
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Omri Shabat has put together a great article identifying one of the sources of pain stemming from the recent Google Penguin updates.  He lists a number of plugins and themes that you should definitely review to insure that your website isn’t being targeted by Google.  He also mentions a great plugin the Theme Authenticity Checker (TAC) plugin on WordPress that helps...

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More than a year ago, some bad guys on the Internet wrote a piece of malware inartfully dubbed DNSChanger. About a year ago, law enforcement tracked down the bad guys behind the malware, arrested them, and took over the servers they were using to cause Internet mayhem.

... the servers are scheduled to be shut down on July 9, 2012. When that happens, nearly half a million Internet users who are still infected could lose access to the web, email, and anything else that depends on DNS.

The DNSChanger Working Group has been working to get the word...
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About a year and a half ago, I had a client whose website would get hacked every few months.  We took security step after step to protect the site built on WordPress but it kept getting hacked.  Simple passwords was one of the original problems, but it seemed that once the hackers realized the site was there, it became...

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Interactive Writing Plugins InboundWriter and ScribeSEO WordCamp Atlanta 2012 Brett Bumeter Interactive Writing Plugin presentation

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This video is part 1 of a multi part series covering SEO Copywriting plugins and tools for writers using the WordPress content management system.

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April 23, 2012, 12:32 PM —The WordPress development team released WordPress 3.3.2 on Friday in order to address several vulnerabilities in the popular blogging platform as well as in three external libraries that are bundled with it by default.

Three media-handling libraries were updated and three native vulnerabilities were fixed in WordPress 3.3.2

The new WordPress version updates the bundled Plupload library to version 1.5.4 after its developers patched a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability last week.
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With the new security updates for WordPress, WordPress users should also pay attention to auto updates for plugins and their themes.  StudioPress just released Genesis 1.8.1 updating Genesis 1.8.0 for example.  Do upgrade your plugins along with WordPress to keep your site safe!

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By Brett Bumeter

Adobe logo CS5 Content Aware PatchMatch Technology Graphic Designers can’t wait to get their hands, mice and stylus’ on the new Adobe Photoshop...

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Blubrry PowerPress 4.0 brings the latest essential features for media creation to WordPress, including the hottest updates to the new iTunes specifications.

iTunes upgrades include:
An updated iTunes image requirement -- RGB 1400x1400 -- throughout the plugin for better cover image quality throughout.

“Feature Episode” that allow podcasters to designate a primary episode, which can be used to introduce the podcast or lead in to a new series.

An iTunes Order feature that allows a podcaster doing a series of episodes to have each listed in the desired order.
Other PowerPress 4.0 offerings include:
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My good friends at RawVoice and Blubrry have just kicked out version 4.0 of PowerPress, the podcasting plugin system for WordPress.  For any podcaster this plugin is essential and the new features in 4.0 are going to be huge as they allow people to Feature a podcast and identify the order of multiple episodes among other things.

Hat’s off to Todd and the development team at Blubrry and Raw Voice!

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More than 1,000 WordPress blogs have been modified to redirect visitors to sites serving malware, affiliate and pay-per-click redirectors, and low quality PPC search result aggregators, through the WordPress' automatic update feature.

The individuals behind the attack have discovered how to add the malicious code to the update.php file, which prompts WordPress to update. This code then injects other code in the wp-settings.PHP file, and effects the redirects.

The update.php file contains the "wp_update_core" function, which is used by the WordPress Automatic Update feature, says Sinegubko.
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For years web developers and WordPress developers will told the world and their clients if you want to keep your site secure, you need to keep it updated.  The best (easiest) way to do that  is simply to run auto updates (within reason) when they come available.

The most common WordPress updates, WordPress theme updates and WordPress plugin updates are security updates.  Someone finds a weakness,...

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Organized by Phoenix based WordPress Hosting company Page.ly, the PressNomics conference sessions are focused exclusively on the commercial economy fueled by startups and SMB's leveraging WordPress. Discussion topics will include: bootstrapping to profitability, software licensing guidelines, SaaS, interface and application design, and finance.

The open source web publishing platform WordPress supports a very successful commercial economy estimated near $1B/yr. Commercial entities of all kinds serve the market of ~72 million WordPress powered sites and blogs with custom designed themes, plugins, web hosting, and service based consulting. PressNomics is a once a year gathering of international WordPress professionals to learn,...
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PressNomics 2012 is offering early bird registrations for this WordPress Conference in Arizona organized by Page.ly.

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... those who aren't up for paying $1,299 (and up) for one of the new suites can try something a bit different: monthly installments. That's coming courtesy of Creative Cloud, an quasi-new initiative designed to harness the power of cloud-based app distribution and streaming in a way that'll make CS6 more accessible than any of the packs that came before. You can tap into CS6's amenities over your broadband connection for $74.99 per month, while those who agree to an annual subscription can get in for $49.99 per month. To be clear, that provides unbridled access to any CS6 tool:...
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I have used Adobe’s software for years and it has always been EXPENSIVE!!!!  Now with CS6, there is not a large barrier to entry.  You can get access to their software for $49 per month instead of the thousands up front.

Other benefits

  • always up to date software
  • easier design for would be app builders
  • content creators get best in class tools without having...

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By Brett Bumeter

Trying to evangelize the concept of why a company should communicate through the blog medium with anecdotes is a fool’s game.  Companies either get it or they don’t with a description like a college kid getting a business lesson out of a text book.

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