Professional Independent Web Development
Today I’m announcing the launch of a new blog: Fascinating Names. A while ago I was reading about a street with a strange name and thought that a blog that had some of the stories behind that kind of name would be a pretty interesting read, so a couple of weeks ago I snapped up fascinatingnames.com, bought the Neutica+ WordPress theme, and got to work. I’ll be posting a new name over there every day or two, so check it out, subscribe, follow @fascinames on twitter, and enjoy.
A couple of weeks ago an article about hacked WordPress sites came up in my WordPress admin dashboard. I hadn’t been paying attention to all of the noise that was apparently going on about hacked blogs, but this article got my attention, and I read it. I learned a lot about how to see if my blog was hacked, but a lot of it consisted of searching for strings in all of my wordpress files, which would involve downloading them all to my computer. What a pain in the ass.
Well, that was two and a half weeks ago. Times have changed. Donncha has come out with the WordPress Exploit Scanner, (currently version 0.1). It does the work for you! Download it and check your wordpress blog. I did, (and I came up clean).