If you follow technology news you'll know that there's been a very large attacking ongoing against self-hosted Wordpress blogs. While the worst of the attack may have stopped for now it's still ongoing. Our technical team released some figures that show the scale of the attack. And we're not that big a hosting provider when you compare us to the "big boys" such as GoDaddy. … [Read more...] about Dealing With WordPress Hack Attacks
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Automatically Generating Rich Snippets For Recipes
I've been blogging on and off about my experiences and progress with dieting over on my diet blog. One of the things that I've also been doing is sharing recipes for the various things I've been eating. In order to display them "sanely" I opted for a Wordpress plugin called "Easy Recipe" mainly for the display. I wasn't as concerned with the rich snippets and microformat … [Read more...] about Automatically Generating Rich Snippets For Recipes
Website Traffic And Hacks
A couple of months ago one of the sites I run was hacked via a nasty hole in a plugin that it was using. It took quite a bit of work to find the source of the issue and resolve it once and for all. Once the hole had been plugged properly the traffic levels returned to normal. But it's only when you have a reasonable amount of data that you can really see how much impact … [Read more...] about Website Traffic And Hacks
Nasty Hacks Hijack Your Site’s Traffic
Any popular content management system, be it for a blog, a website or a forum, is going to be targetted by hackers at some point. They'll try to find ways to exploit any security vulnerability that they can find. To be honest you could expand that statement and simply say "any popular software". If the hack is a defacement or similar you'll notice it pretty quickly, but … [Read more...] about Nasty Hacks Hijack Your Site’s Traffic
Technicaljobs.ie Revamped
I've been running technicaljobs.ie for the last couple of years on jobberbase. It's nice software, but it's not as feature rich as I'd like and dealing with spammy submissions is awkward. So I recently made the switch to using jobroller and gave the site a bit of a facelift. The site's now running Wordpress with Jobroller, so it also has a blog :) (Whether I'll be able to … [Read more...] about Technicaljobs.ie Revamped