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Wow! This one made me laugh! No offense to Microsoft; I still use Office 2003 Professional.
Didn’t the WordPress team just recently release v2.8.2 to fix an XSS vulnerability? Well, it seems as though a few other fixes were also made and here we have WordPress 2.8.3.
Update/upgrade your WordPress installations now because this is a security release that fixes a bunch of issues from v2.8.1.
Read more here: WordPress 2.8.3 Security Release
This is not one of my regular technical posts. I do have a sense of humour and enjoy a good laugh, especially when everything can be achieved through clean comedy. Here is a video I came across while on YouTube. Yes, it is totally random, but you will have to admit that it is funny. Enjoy!
By default, WordPress installations announce their currently installed version in the header. You will find it within a meta tag of the page’s HTML.
If you do not keep on top of WordPress updates, you can imagine that this presents a security risk. Those wishing to exploit vulnerabilities like the recent XSS vulnerability in WordPress 2.8.1 can target blogs just by looking at the header meta information. The situation gets worse if you are still using an even older version of WordPress.
Getting WordPress to stop advertising this version information requires that you add the following to your theme’s functions.php file. Remember how we removed other header elements? This WordPress hack is similar. Note that you need to do this every time you change your theme.
add_filter( 'the_generator', create_function('$a', "return null;") );
Upon logging in to one of my WordPress blogs this morning, I saw the notification to upgrade to WordPress 2.8.2. Wasn’t WordPress 2.8.1 released just a few weeks ago? Well, I’m thankful that the WordPress developers are keeping on top of security.
WordPress 2.8.2 fixes an XSS vulnerability that was found to exploit comment author URLs through the admin panel. Wow! That’s scary!
Read more about it here: WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.8.2
I found that using the built-in automatic upgrade does not always work properly and may get stuck at the “unpacking” stage. While you can try the manual upgrade, it can be a very long process. Automatic upgrading has progressed very far and can be completed within seconds. Just ensure that before you update and subsequently deactivate all of your plugins before executing the upgrade in either case. They can be re-activated after the upgrade process is complete.
I was performing a bit of optimization on one of my WordPress blogs and wanted to clean up the header. The default installation of WordPress adds quite a bit up there and this bloat can be compounded by a theme’s own customizations. After quite a bit of searching around Google, I came up with a clean solution. Here is what I did to help de-clutter my theme’s header.
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