I’ve got a little bored of the theme on pilkster.com now so I’m preparing to release it (for free of course) to the public. I don’t really like to run ads on my personal blog, but this theme was originally designed with Google’s AdSense and other advertising networks in mind, in fact it was created for TechPuddle.com, an advertising supported tech blog.
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First time I’ve visited my blog in a while, and I’ve discovered a problem with my site’s security. If you view this post you can see that there is a strange vertical black line at the bottom of the post.
Editing the post shows that it is actually an iframe.
I’m not sure if this is a problem with the security of my server, or a WordPress problem. My feeling is that it might be a WordPress security problem as nothing more sinister has shown itself yet.
I’m going to leave it there for now so that SEOidiot can have a look (I know he loves this kind of stuff). You might think I’ve gone daft publicly exposing a security flaw on my server… I can tell you I’m not daft enough to have my personal blog on a server with anything that matters too much, and I have backups.
If you have seen this before please leave a comment. I’m just hoping now that it isn’t some kind of secret project that I have forgotten about…
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Watchout WordPress users, the BlackHats are coming!!
As you may or may not know I have several friends who are involved in BlackHat SEO and they have been showing particular interest in the progress of Themey, my WordPress theme site. I had a little think about the potential for WP in the blackhat arena, and the things that can be done with it are very worrysome. The potential includes (but is in no way limited to):
- Using your domain, server and IP address to send bulk email.
- Using your server and IP address to spam other bloggers with comment and trackback spam promoting their latest PPC campaign (Pills, Porn and Casino).
- Using your site to pass PageRank (PR) to their PPC site.
If you are interested in the way that spammers could use your site for evil you can find more details (including an example site showing a method of user-agent based PR spam) in my Security Vulnerability post at Themey.
My latest Wordpress theme auction is for Apples, I really like this theme & would love to use it myself…
Thanks go to AmCy of DP who won the auction for Hong Kong 
Another day, another Wordpress theme. ‘Flowers‘ went for BIN in 24 hours too, this time the sponsor was Health and Beauty (thanks!).
I’m having a third (and possibly final) theme sponsorship auction for the awesome ‘Hong Kong‘ theme. See the auction here.