Security Alert – WordPress 2.85 and below

- Release date: November 11th, 2009 – Discovered by: Dawid Golunski – Severity: Moderately High Problem: WordPress  versions 2.85 and below allow unrestricted file uploads and arbitrary PHP code execution. Impact: It is possible for a hacker to upload scripts that can be run on the server, view website source code which could allow them [...]

Word Press as a CMS (Part 1)

Investigating using WordPress as both a CMS and Blog When I was first told that one could use WordPress as a CMS I was thinking inside a very small confining box and thought, “why in the world would anyone ever want to do that?” The basis for this thought was totally from a narrow minded [...]

WordPress as a CMS? Maybe, maybe not. (Intro)

Sitting on a Fence Overview – Many web designers are looking at or currently using WordPress as a Content Management system for their clients. As with any technology there are trade-offs that must be considered. In order to explore this more fully we decided to implement a new site devoted to our Linux Virtual Servers [...]

Marketing your site for fun and profit – getting started

In order to market a website you need to start with a website. We picked Spicy Mama as our test website as while has been around for a while, it received very few hits as the owner was going to school and never had time for it so she did zero to promote the site. [...]

Marketing your site for fun and profit

We decided to setup this blog as a way to show our customers how to promote their sites in conjunction with Google, Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites and methods. We are going to use a real live customer site, Spicy Mama, as an example to let you know how it works in the [...]