Following on from the WordPress developer documentation. This morning I have restored my WordPress phpxref site into functionality and added bbPress and BackPress into the mix too. The root of the site is http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/ and it is set to automattically update every 30 minutes as things change.
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WordPress developer documentation
Tonight I have restored my WordPress phpDocumentor site into functionality and added bbPress and BackPress into the mix too. The root of the site is http://phpdoc.ftwr.co.uk/ and it is set to automattically update every 30 minutes as things change.
Unplanned downtime
Due to hardware issues this site has seen some unplanned downtime of late. The server that was hosting this site (and providing smtp/imap/dns/ircbot services for ftwr.co.uk) started playing up and would randomly lockup hard. After a few days of trying to resolve these hardware issues I decided that it was time for a two pronged response – build a new server to replace the current one and start to move some of the services off onto a VPS.
I had been planning for a while to get a slicehost vps server to move all the web properties onto so as to have more bandwidth available for visitors – this site was shifting 5G of traffic a month up my adsl connection on it’s own!
Hopefully all of this site should be running fine now I have got apache2/mysql tuned to run in the limited environment of my 256M slice and wp-super-cache up and running.
Please let me know if anything is broken!
Pwnie’s 2008
WordPress seems to have had the dubious pleasure of been nominated for the 2008 Pwnie Awards in the “Mass 0wnage” category:
It seems like hardly a week goes by without a new vulnerability in WordPress or one of its many plugins. Many of them are actively being exploited to own popular WordPress blogs and use them to serve spam or client-side exploits to unsuspecting visitors. The popularity of WordPress combined with the abysmal security practices of WordPress plugin developers places the entire Internet at risk and is worthy of a nomination.
To be fair many of the vulnerabities that are reported are within plugin code rather than the core. For more information on the CVEs reported for WordPress and WordPress plugins this year you can head over to the codex.