Boring Site Note: Just Upgraded to WordPress 2.3.3
I did so after reading this scary post from Doc. So if you notice any wacky behaviour around here, please leave a comment or send me an email.
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March 28th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Hmm, your sidebar looks weird for me, but other than that seems ok. 2.3.3 was really stable for me. I’ve had issues with the beta of 2.5 though, but that’s to be expected.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Duane: Thanks for that–could you please send me a screenshot (darren at darrenbarefoot dot com)?
March 28th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Note that if you don’t want to do the whole upgrade rigamarole and want to fix the problem fast, you can download and replace only the xmlrpc.php file. I’ve done it on several WP blogs and none have been compromised:
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/02/wordpress-233/
March 28th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Hello
for that–could you please send me a screenshot
March 28th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
A few months ago my partner Tyler noticed a string of spam links in his source code. He changed his password and deleted the spam.
A few weeks ago Tyler noticed that when you searched his name in Google, his own website wouldn’t come up, like it used to. He didn’t see the link farm until last night when he looked at it with some Google tool I can’t remember what it’s called. And it’s on my site too. If you search my name, my websites don’t come up. Because of the hidden links, our sites have been removed from search results by Google.
Grr…
March 28th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Julie, I’m curious if you had registration enabled or not? The WP codex says that the security flaw was only if you have registration enabled…
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/02/wordpress-233/
March 31st, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Actually, I found out that Dreamhost was hacked and 3,500 ftp passwords were obtained, so apparently that was the problem.
http://simonwillison.net/2007/Jun/6/dreamhost/
April 4th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Nice. Good to see you last night. We actually do releases so that I can bug you about upgrading. So consider yourself bugged to upgrade to 2.5. And as always, if you need a hand just let me know.