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Comment on Guarding WordPress Against Hacker URL Requests by Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:56:01 +0000

Thanks John
Much appreciated.

Comment on Guarding WordPress Against Hacker URL Requests by John Hoff

John Hoff — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:50:28 +0000

@Keith – yep, you’re good to go to deactivate and delete the version you have and then upload and activate the latest version plugin.

Hint: To find it easily, go to Plugins -> Add New in your blog’s sidebar and search for BBQ.

That should bring it up quick.

Comment on Guarding WordPress Against Hacker URL Requests by Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:42:41 +0000

John
When I created the plugin as shown above, I didn’t call it “Block Bad Queries”

I’m guessing that this plugin does not create any database tables so I can simply delete the one I created and upload Jeff’s.

Comment on Guarding WordPress Against Hacker URL Requests by John Hoff

John Hoff — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:30:02 +0000

Hi Keith… yep it is and I definitely gave him full credit for the plugin in the post above and also in WordPress Defender.

I made sure to ask him if first if I could include it in WordPress Defender.

Yeah Anysia (above) mentioned it, too. After this comment I’ll log in and update the post.

Thanks for spotting it.

Comment on Guarding WordPress Against Hacker URL Requests by Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:30:46 +0000

Hi
Just looked at Wordpress plugins repository – presumably the plugin is the “Block Bad Queries (BBQ)” by Jeff Starr.

Comment on Guarding WordPress Against Hacker URL Requests by John Hoff

John Hoff — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:44:03 +0000

Hi Anysia. Thanks for purchasing the ebook, I hope you like it.

Thanks for the update on the plugin. I added Jeff’s plugin to the ebook at the last minute. He wrote the plugin and I emailed him asking if it was ok to put it in the book. Good to know it’s now available for everyone in the plugin repository. It’s a great (and simple) plugin.

Comment on Guarding WordPress Against Hacker URL Requests by Anysia (Booklorn on Twitter)

Anysia (Booklorn on Twitter) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:55:33 +0000

This is now available as a plugin at Wordpress.org, FYI. Came here from your ebook, went through all this, only to have WordPress immediately tell me that the plugin was out of date and to download the new version from WP.org.

Comment on How To Decrease The Load Time Of Your WordPress Blog Using gzip by John Hoff

John Hoff — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:29:00 +0000

Hi Keith. Hey thanks for the tool and the mention about the avatar.

Yeah I went with sepia tone, why not, right?

That picture is actually a picture of me holding my 2nd born on his first day in this world. Somehow I didn’t think the picture of a newborn though was what I should put in my avatar. But I think about it every time I see it.

Also, thanks for the mention on your blog. I appreciate that.

Comment on How To Decrease The Load Time Of Your WordPress Blog Using gzip by Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:48:27 +0000

Sorry for second comment John.

Meant to say…. like the new Avatar.
Shades of sepia?

Comment on How To Decrease The Load Time Of Your WordPress Blog Using gzip by Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:46:37 +0000

Hi John
Came across an article at “Wordpress How To Spotter” that gives details of a tool that checks if your host supports gzip.

Link to full article is

http://www.howtospoter.com/web-20/wordpress/3-webmaster-tools-to-improve-blog-performance

The tool is the first one that is discussed.

Hope people find it useful