Category Archives: wordpress

Spinn3r Weblog Hosting Breakdown 1

I bumped into Toni Schneider today at Crossroads and was reminded that we haven’t yet published our CMS breakdown. We’re going to be publishing live these on spinn3r.com …. This is based on raw posts per hour, with spam removed. Statistics can tend to give you a limited perspective of what’s under the cover. For [...]

Categories: web2.0,wordpress

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August 13, 2008 – 7:46 pm
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More on the WordPress Blog Spam Cancer 0

Technorati published more information on the wordpress blog spam cancer that’s spreading around the Internet. If you’re running a version of WordPress less than 2.5 you need to stop what you’re doing NOW and upgrade! Don’t wait until your blog is compromised. The blogosphere has had its share of maladies before. Comment spam, trackback spam, [...]

Categories: google,spam,wordpress

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April 8, 2008 – 1:41 pm
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Anyone Want to Help Fix these Compromised WordPress Blogs? 8

OK gang. I need help. I’m SLAMMED with work but I’d really like to find SOME way to alert these bloggers who have had their blogs compromised by this Trojan/Worm. These people are going to be REALLY harmed by this since Google’s probably just going to zero out their pagerank for a while. I need [...]

Categories: wordpress

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March 29, 2008 – 7:25 pm
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More Compromised WordPress Blogs 0

Hopefully, this large WordPress 2.5 release will cause a few people to upgrade. We just found another 200 or so sites that have been compromised today. Not fun.

Categories: startups,web2.0,wordpress

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March 29, 2008 – 7:19 pm
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More Trojan/Zombie/Botnet WordPress Spam Blogs 3

The zombie/trojan spam blogs are at it again tonight. I just caught another 5k stories published to Tailrank because of this recent blog spam torrent. There is clearly some unknown vulnerability that he must be exploiting. I’ve only done sample based auditing of about 20% of the links and they’re nearly 100% WordPress blogs ranging [...]

Categories: spam,wordpress

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March 26, 2008 – 10:07 pm
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Reliable CMS Generator Detection 4

I’ve been planing around with microformat and nanoformat[1] parsing today using real world HTML. One feature I’d like is the ability to reliably detect the CMS version a website is running. For example, the Moveable Type site is running some version of Moveable Type (probably not Typepad) but which version? They’ve stripped the generator meta [...]

Categories: sixapart,startups,typepad,web2.0,wordpress

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January 8, 2008 – 8:41 pm
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Akismet Comment Storm 1

I’m currently getting HIT with a comment storm on WordPress. I don’t think Akismet is handling one word comments and doesn’t realize that the comment should be added to /dev/null About 50 comments in the last 72 hours. Not too bad but kind of annoying. Update: OK. This is becoming a problem. I’ve already had [...]

Categories: wordpress

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July 9, 2007 – 10:57 am
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Small Bug with WordPress Content Importing 3

One bug which can have a negative SEO impact on Typepad migrations. Older URLs return 302 not HTTP 301. For example fetching this: http://www.feedblog.org/2007/04/slack_and_mysql.html returns a 302 redirect to: http://feedblog.org/2007/04/27/slack-and-mysql/ It should return a 301 ….

Categories: wordpress

Published:
May 27, 2007 – 4:51 pm
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Blog CMS Generator Breakdown 7

We enabled a feature in our crawler to record the ‘generator’ meta tag to get a rough idea of real world CMS deployment. This is based on a sample of 50k weblogs with generators. This isn’t across our entire weblog index as the crawler is still executing. There’s one major disclaimer here. A good percentage [...]

Categories: sixapart,wordpress

Published:
February 8, 2007 – 12:33 pm
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An Open Definition of Blogs 1

Scoble puts forth his definition of blogs which I find far too narrow…. If you’re a blog you apparently have to send pings:I would go as far as saying that a site that does not ping a pingserver, like weblogs.com, is NOT a blog (private Web sites don’t ping weblogs.com and are NOT discoverable by search engines).That’s not a very healthy requirement.

Categories: blog,blogger,blogs,memetrackers,search,syndicate,syndication,web2.0,weblog,Weblogs,wordpress

Published:
August 21, 2006 – 1:01 pm
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