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Delete Users with No Roles

DKidd — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:29:19 +0000

I am working on a plugin for WordPress that will allow me to delete the users that get created by spammers and such. You can tell they are spam accounts because they have no roles associated with them. If they were created the proper way they would have a role associated with their account. So I will play with the creation of a plugin to delete those users.

WordPress 2.9.1

DKidd — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:48:30 +0000

So I have just updated this site to version 2.9.1, and it is working quite well. I have just noticed the coolest thing.. I think it was implemented in WordPress 2.9, but either way, if you put a url in your post is like a link for a video from Flickr or something. Just putting this url in your post, with nothing else special, will embed the video straight in the post.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkidd/4256016317/

Even though the URL is for the page that the image or in this case video is on, WordPress is smart enough to embed the video for us right into wordpress. We could put the embed code around the URL and it will do the same thing, but with the embed tag in wordpress we can make the video/picture a particular size. so like this is an embed width=200

Worm running around attacking WordPress Sites Everywhere

DKidd — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:21:36 +0000

So I was doing some reading today and noticed that there is a worm out attacking wordpress sites. It appears that Version 2.8.4 is not vulnerable, so was the version before but I would go around and check your WordPress if you are using wordpress and make sure that you are atleast 2.8.3 but I think 2.8.4 would be even better. And check your friends sites too make sure they have upgraded…

This article explains this problem more, and will give you more information in you are interested.

Hosting provider

DKidd — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:35:00 +0000

I have now entered into the world of being a hosting provider. I have been hosting several sites for a while, but just recently decided that I should start doing my own hosting. So I am still working out some of the kinks, and will start adding some new pages here in the next few days talking about my hosting opportunities, and how I can serve the people who want me to host their site for them. But I just wanted to put this note out there letting people know that I now can provide hosting.

openIDs

DKidd — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:04:42 +0000

I was over using Plaxo this morning, I got an email about someone joinging Plaxo or something like that.

Any way, while I was there I noticed that Plaxo now accepted openIDs. Which got me thinking that I have always wanted to have my own openID server. Well, while I was looking how to setup my own openID server, I noticed that google was now an openID site, so when I signup to sites that use openID, I can use google as the openID site. So I decided to add an openid login to my sites, so I added an openID plugin. So if you need to login to this site, you can now do so using openID.