The rest of the world is here
A few years ago, I warned everyone that “the rest of the world is coming.” Well, they’re here now. Check out these stats.
I suggest you go to the SlideShare site and view it full-screen, it’s text-heavy.
Misc
Stuff that doesn’t quite fit anywhere else.
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What WordPress needs
A plugin that
- Greps every file in your public web directory, recursively, looking for “base64” and tells you about them. The default WP install has none of these.
- Warns you on modification date of any file in the install, plus in any themes.
- Checks header and footer for unusual size changes.
- Warns you on any files added to install directories that are not something in the vanilla install — e.g., any new php files in wp-admin that aren’t part of the install.
- Warns you on any .htaccess redirects.
- Pulls out the list of administrators by querying in wp_usermeta for wp_metavalue containing %administrator% — not whatever the dashboard uses, which appears to correlate to other tables and therefore misses hacked accounts.
- Generates a table of everything in wp_options that is not a part of the vanilla WP install, so you can check it. Sure, a whole bunch of plugins will show up, but maybe you can check that manually.
Doing all this by hand is getting old. 🙂 The saga continues at the other post, which continues to get updates.
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Blog issues
Yes, it’s wonky. And it will stay wonky for a little while, there’s clearly some compromised files — spam stuff getting inserted into PHP files wrecking everything.
I have upgraded to 2.5, and everything seems to be working correctly. For now, anyway.
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RSS feed fixed
Someone finally pointed out to me that the feed has been busted for days. It’s fixed now. So you can go catch up, if you read the blog that way. Also upgraded one more version — almost to 2.5 finally. Sheesh.
I see I now have this nifty tagging feature. There’s a tag cloud over on the sidebar now, and I tagged some of the recent posts. I also installed a plugin that lets readers tag posts — it’s at the end of each post, and it lets readers suggest tags. Enough people agree, and the tag goes on the post. Spaces are allowed in the tags. So have at!
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China’s Boomtowns in National Geographic
This article on “China’s Boomtowns” is why National Geographic Magazine is so worth reading. [via BoingBoing].
