Patrick Coombe
Since the dawn of modern web browsers the favicon has been used as a mini-icon to represent the brand of your website in your browsers title bar. Over the last few years, the favicon has grown up. We have icons, favicons, shortcut-icons, apple touch icons and many more. These icons have various default settings in quality and size. Today [...]
I don't know why, but I keep seeing this on many different servers, with various different profiles. Over the past year, I've seen this problem randomly happen to at least 10 different websites. One day everything is fine, then an update happens to WordPress, PHP or Apache and poof, WordPress wp-admin spits out a 403 forbidden error. To keep [...]
How to make WordPress play nice with SVG. This is the first post in a "thinking out loud" series that I am doing. You might encounter this post half way finished or barely even started. It is basically meant as a testing ground for me to learn a new technology. If you run across it unfinished, just know [...]
This problem has been persistent and a real pain in the neck for the last few years. I first ran across this example when implementing schema (itemprop, etc) within my code. I would be hacking away in WordPress HTML editor (text tab) for hours upon end. At some point I would switch to the visual editor (visual tab) and [...]
How many times have you heard "WordPress is only for small bloggers" or "you can't use WordPress for a business or enterprise site." Personally I've heard it one too many times. I scraped a number of lists including Alexa top 5000, Fortune 5000 and a few others I have lying around. I ran it through a blog analyzer and [...]
Network security has always been a hobby of mine. I've always been interested in vulnerability scanning, pen testing, hacking and the likes. Last year when our website got hacked I actually got a little excited because I got to figure out how it was done and how to fix it (it was a WordPress SQL injection as a result [...]
WordPress is probably the most popular website framework on the planet Earth. In the security community it is also known as one of the most exploitable frameworks for a number of reasons. There are pretty much 2 main types of WordPress attacks that I've been seeing these days, nothing new: Brute forcing wp-admin via dictionary attack. Injecting code /payload [...]