September 21, 2011 By 1 Comment

Troj/PHPShll-B malware in WordPress wp-config.php file!

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Suspicious codes found in WordPress wp-config.php file

A Sophos Senior Threat Researcher, Paul O Baccas found a malware codename, Troj/PHPShll-B in a WordPress wp-config.php file that was installed in one of their IT department friend’s website.

This malware was first detected by SophosLabs automated systems as Mal/Badsrc-C from the downloaded index.html file.

Further analysis, Paul saw a suspicious piece of code written in base64 string format in the wp-config.php file. When translated, the code will only be served if the User-Agent is Internet Explorer.

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April 10, 2011 By 19 Comments

VaultPress Review – Ultimate WordPress Backup Solution

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VaultPress – A WordPress backup solution by Automattic

I received my VaultPress Golden Ticket a few weeks ago. I thought the ticket has no expiration date but I was wrong. Nearly to its expiration date which was yesterday, I decided to use and install VaultPress in one of my blogs.

And here is my VaultPress review…

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February 13, 2011 By 3 Comments

Genesis Framework – What’s your opinion?

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Genesis Framework by Studiopress

It’s been 3 years since the last time I changed CypherHackz.Net theme layout on 26 October 2007. This theme, CypherFS DarkSide was designed and coded by myself. And I think it is time to have a fresh look of CypherHackz.Net and use Genesis as the framework.

Why Genesis? Well mostly because I see there are some of the popular bloggers are using Genesis framework, like Problogger and CopyBlogger. I am not sure why these guy use Genesis but there might be a reason in behind.

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January 3, 2011 By 5 Comments

Automatic Update Copyright Year in WordPress Footer

It is new year guys. Have you update the copyright year in your WordPress footer? Make sure it is year 2011 and not 2010. :-P

Here is a tip that you can use to automatically update the copyright year. Open up your footer.php theme file, and add this line:

<p>Copyright &copy; 2005 – <?php echo date(‘Y’); ?> yoursitename.com</p>

The PHP date(‘Y’); function will display the current year so you don’t have to manually update the copyright year every year. ;)

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January 1, 2011 By 19 Comments

W3 Total Cache – Best WordPress Cache Plugin

*** Happy New Year 2011 to all my readers… ;) ***

Previously, I was using WP Super Cache plugin to cache my blogs. Unfortunately, the plugin had made my blog vulnerable and a hacker was successfully infiltrated into my server through the cache folder created by the plugin. All my index files have been replaced with the hacker message. Since the incident, I have stopped using WP Super Cache.

Right now, I’m using another WordPress cache plugin called, W3 Total Cache. This plugin is the fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin. Various of popular blogs have using it such as mashable.com, pearsonified.com, lockergnome.com and others.

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January 5, 2010 By 3 Comments

WordPress 2.9.1 Released

After three weeks the release of WordPress 2.9, the patch version WordPress 2.9.1 has come out to fix 24 bugs found in WordPress 2.9.

As some of you may already notice, one of the bugs has affected the scheduled post feature where by the scheduling posts were not working and this was really annoying.

Like for myself, I use this feature almost of the time. But when this bug came in, I had to post my articles manually during recent New Year’s Eve even though at that time I want to hang-out with my friends.

If you are using WordPress, I really recommend you to upgrade your WordPress to version 2.9.1 either by downloading it from WordPress download page, or automatically upgrade from the notification link on your Admin Dashboard.

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December 19, 2009 By 3 Comments

WordPress 2.9 “Carmen” Released

A new version of WordPress 2.9 has been released. The codename for the release is “Carmen” in honour of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae. You can either upgrade directly from your Dashboard or download it from WordPress website.

What’s new? Yes, of course that is what you want to know right? Well, there is a Trash where we can restore back deleted comments or posts. Probably if you accidentally deleted a comment, you can restore it back by using Trash.

Another interesting new feature is the Image Editor. Although I surely will not use it much but now you can crop, edit, rotate, flip and scale the images directly from the web.

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January 23, 2009 By 1 Comment

An XSLT stylesheet does not have an XML mimetype

Today, I found out that my sitemap.xml file got problem. It showed me this error message when I tried to view it.

Error loading stylesheet: An XSLT stylesheet does not have an XML mimetype

http://www.cypherhackz.net/wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.xsl

I think the problem come from the recently Google Sitemap Generator plugin upgrade.

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January 15, 2009 By 4 Comments

Successfully Upgraded to WordPress 2.7

Phew! In about 10 minutes, I have successfully upgraded all my 7 blogs to the latest WordPress version 2.7 , codename Coltrane.

It will be very crazy if I use FTP to upload the files one by one because there are many files need to be uploaded to the server. Especially when I have many blogs need to be updated. So I used SSH access to extract the WordPress .ZIP file and copy all the latest version files from one temporary folder to my blog folders. It is a lot easier and save a lot of time.

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March 7, 2008 By 14 Comments

Free WordPress SEO Tips

Informations should be free! I love freebies and I know many of you are also like something that is free. Especially girls… (Want to say something, girls?) :D

Well today, I want to talk about free WordPress SEO tips. Every bloggers who want to get huge traffics from search engines must know how to optimize their website to be search engines friendly. By doing so, your website will get rank better in the search engine results and you will get more traffics to your website.

Guys, I don’t want to say too much and don’t want to take your time to read my boring words. Lets get straight to the point. Carrie Hill and Mary Bowling have taken their time to write an ebook which covers about WordPress SEO. I recommend you to get a free copy of this ebook now and implement the tips to your WordPress blog.

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