Wordpress

We’ve all seen hacked Wordpress blogs. Right? Most SEO’s and techies in our beloved industy certainly have, but Wordpress blog hacking is a relatively unknown subject to the less tech savvy blogger and, unbeknownst to them, their cherished weblogs are linking out to some pretty disgusting parts of the Internet…

About a year ago, I was looking at some rankings for the keyphrase “airline tickets”. Kicking around page 2 in Google.com, I saw a result that instantly stood out as anomalous. Looking at the backlinks, it was pretty clear that an entire legion of Wordpress blogs had been hacked to link out to a spam site. One of those Wordpress blogs belonged to Rob Da Bank, a DJ who I (sort of) worship, so I contacted him:

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This evening I’ve been playing with the WP-cache plugin. If you install it and find this error:

Then all you have to do is browse to the wp-cache config file which you should find in the /wp-content/ directory.

Take a copy of the file and open it to edit as follows:

Done. Of course you could try the WP-super-cache plugin, which is an improvement over this one – but brings a new set of potential problems. On first install my entire site started delivering blank HTML. Be careful

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How to display latest posts from a specific category without a plugin in Wordpress

I’ve just made an addition to my side bar that displays all of the latest items added to my SEO jobs category. It’s a few, simple lines of code and doesn’t nessecary warrant an entire plugin! Here’s how to do it – just insert the code below, and change the category=1 argument to the category number of your choice:

<ul>
<?php
global $post;
$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=5&offset=1&category=1');
foreach($myposts as $post) :
?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

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