This past weekend I had the privilege attending and speaking at Wordcamp Fayetteville 2012, it was an incredible conference (as always), and I wanted to share a few thoughts about the Conference and the weekend while they were still fresh on my mind. First off, kudos to the #WCFay team, they did an awesome job […]
Possible Solution / Fix for WordPress Plugin / Theme Auto Update
Have you ever wondered why plugins/themes fail to update OR you receive a yellow FTP warning on some installations and not on others? I’ve asked several developers from within the wordpress community this question before and no one really has an answer for me. Typically the sites that I have that won’t auto-update are housed […]
Removing WordPress Pharma Hack
Pleth, LLC, and probably one of the sharpest guys I know, and we toiled over this thing daily for about a week or so until we finally eradicated it from all of our WordPress installations. For the benefit of all of you that are still wrestling w/ this hack, here’s exactly how we removed it… […]
Securing wp-config.php
For the past week or so, our server admin, Matt Critcher, and I have been battling the “pharma-hack” in several WordPress installations, this website included. Long story short, we still haven’t been able to completely eradicate this exploit but I feel like we are getting a lot closer. This afternoon Matt advised that I go […]
The WordPress Pharma Hack
Today I received an alert that one of our websites was reported by Google as being the victim of hacking and was being flagged as possibly dangerous in their search results. This immediately caught me off guard because our server admin, Matt Critcher, is one of the best in the business and nothing gets past […]
I’m Speaking at Wordcamp…
I will be presenting on the business track during WordCamp Fayetteville 2011 on July 30, 2011 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The topic of my session will be WordPress profitability for Agencies / Development firms. I attended last years WordCamp along w/ Keith Crawford and we had a blast. You can checkout the tentative list of speakers […]