Apparently the WordPress search redirect hack that I reported on the other day is fairly widespread. Moreover, it’s been taking down sites running WordPress installs as late as ver. 2.5.1, so it appears that upgrading won’t necessarily protect you.
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After yesterday’s excitement with one of my WordPress installs getting hacked, I though I’d point out an interesting article on securing WordPress: Hardening WordPress I haven’t read it closely yet, but it looks quite useful.
Something scary happened today over at one of my other sites. Around 3:30 EDT, I noticed that traffic to the site was running way below normal. Upon further investigation, I realized that my search engine traffic had all but dried up. Thinking I had been banned by Google, I dug deeper.
This is a quick note to WordPress users our there… I have always felt that you should never rely on a plugin to do something that can just as easily be done by hand, especially when it comes to content creation.