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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

Since July, I have been experiencing CPU usages on my Virtual Dedicated Server.  In July, my host InMotion Hosting, whom I have had an excellent relationship with for over 3 years, recommended that I should move to a ‘new faster server’ and they would migrate my accounts for free.

Sounded good, I asked a few questions,...

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By Brett Bumeter

I found this cool looking plugin recently that helps you optimize keywords within a WordPress Post or Page.  It doesn’t help you find keywords, but once you know the keywords that you want to emphasize with a <strong> tag for example, you can type in the word into the admin panel and the plugin will automatically place the keywords in bold for...

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By Brett Bumeter

When the automatic (push button) upgrade of plugins within WordPress first became available, it was the best thing since sliced bread or maybe even WordPress itself.

But over the last few weeks, I’ve noticed that first one then several, then almost all of my plugin upgrade attempts were failing.  It started with the xml sitemap generator plugin.  For some reason,...

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By Brett Bumeter

I have been expending a great deal of effort testing plugins that offer some form of management over nofollow links on a WordPress site.  I’m looking for something that will enable me to specifically select a page or Post by the Post ID and mark that page or post to always receive a nofollow tag whenever I link...

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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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By Brett Bumeter

Let’s say you have 50 or 100 or 1000 old blog posts on one or more sites that were sponsored articles.  You were paid up front for a short time advertorial essentially.  That was years ago and those posts haven’t brought any revenue to you since.  :(

Plus, the FTC has...

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By Brett Bumeter

I received an email today from a member of our local WordPress meetup group asking the following question:

Got a minute to clue me in on how my WordPress site got hacked?
My service provider said it was easier to do because my WP
version wasn’t updated to the recent version. What can...

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By Brett Bumeter

This weekend I had to do an ugly install of the GooseGrade plugin.  The service was very impressive at Blogworld last year, and I think it had a lot of promise.  Unfortunately, it seems to have faltered somewhere, the web management tools were difficult to manage accounts, even though the WP plugin seemed much tighter.

But then It started slowing down my site, crashing my other plugin functionality and giving...

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By Brett Bumeter

image For quite sometime I have been using a great plugin that helps me to create automatic xml plugins for Google bot and other search engines, but it was only a short time ago that...

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