The latest bug fix increment to the current stable WordPress version is now out. WordPress 2.0.3 addresses the recent low risk security vulnerability and adds a number of other small security and bug fixes. The biggest change in this version is the introduction of nonces to protect the admin pages instead of relying on referrers which are increasing being disabled by personal firewall software. Those of you using my WordPress Version Check plugin should now see an upgrade message in your WordPress admin pages.
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Stealing content for profit.
Reviewing my referrer logs again after the recent hotlinking issues I noticed another new referrer cropping up planetwordpress.com. Taking a look at the site in question it seems to be a WordPress install aggregating the content from a lot of WordPress blogs including most of those pulled into the official and unofficial WordPress planets (planet.wordpress.org and planetwordpress.planetozh.com respectively).
The new planetwordpress.com site seems to have the sole purpose of generating money from adsense clicks based on other content which I’m sure goes against the licence I have my content under (CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0) and as such I have contacted Google to complain about the sites participation in the adsense program. Searching Google for mentions of planetwordpress.com it seems like I am not the only person to notice there content being stolen.
How not to comment spam!
I was hit by a run of attempted comment spam last night by someone obviously using a new tool they downloaded from useless-comment-spammers.com. The first attempted comment was so obviously spam it was untrue:
Author : Use Keyword Here E-mail : You@Your-email.com URI : http://www.Your-Domain.com/Your-Page.htm Comment: Personally, I never use more than a single link in the comment I post because doing so can trigger spam catchers if the user has that plugin activated, whereas a single link will not.
You would think that they at least had the spare brain cells to read the script they were attempting to spam with before starting there spam run!
Managing mime-types for the inline-uploader
Some people want to be able to extend the list of mime-types supported by the WordPress inline-uploader. There are a number of different ways in which this could be achieved ranging from adding a option to allow any file type through to a plugin which allows easy configuration of an extra list of mime-types through the administration interface.
Seeing as a hook exists (upload_mimes) to filter the list of supported mime-types it is fairly easy to knock together a simple plugin which adds a set of mime-types.
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