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Silence is Golden Guard WordPress plugin v. 1.5 update

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

Silence is golden guard plugin is updated

SIG GUARD Updated

Next update v.1.5 is available for Silence is Golden Guard WordPress plugin. With the help of plugin users incompatibility with WP Super Cache plugin was discovered and fixed. The problem was that blog with WP Super Cache plugin active becomes unavailable after activating of SIG plugin. Analysis showed that index.php file with redirection directive in the wp-super-cache/plugins directory results in the endless redirection loop which block the blog front-end and admin back-end access. From version 1.5 SIG plugin checks if WP Super Cache is active and create then empty index.php file for the wp-super-cache/plugins directory without redirection directive. The incompatibility issue is resolved this way.
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User Role Editor WordPress plugin

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

User Role Editor

User Role Editor

User Role Editor WordPress plugin allows you to change standard WordPress user roles capabilities with easiness of a few mouse clicks. Just turn on check boxes of capabilities you wish to add to the selected role and click “Update” button to save your changes. That’s done. In case you made some unneccessary change you always have the “Reset” button to restore roles state from the automatically made backup copy. Add and tune your own custom roles whiche you can assign to the users then. Delete self-made roles. Change defaul user role.
Why it could be necessary? Let’s suppose you wish that your multi-authored blog contributors upload their own graphics to use in their posts. WordPress “contributor” role has no such capability by default. In such situation you have needed to change user role capabilities manually using SQL client as I described at “How to change wordpress user role capabilities” post, if you have enough knowledge in that field. But what to do if you have not?
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Silence is Golden Guard WordPress plugin

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Silence is Golden Guard

Silence is Golden Guard

Silence is golden guard WordPress plugin prevents your blog directories from listing if visitor types just directory name as the URL,
e.g. http://yourdomain/wp-content/plugins/
Did you see small 30 bytes only index.php files in the folders of WordPress installation? If you don’t know for what reason those files included into WordPress package please read this post “Silence is Golden”.
This plugin can scan your WordPress blog installation subdirectories for the presence of such dummy index.php files and create it if index.php file doesn’t exist in the directory. As the second line of defence against directory listing plugin can add special “-Indexes” option into Apache Web Server .htaccess file placed at the WordPress root directory.
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Delete Default Post WordPress plugin or Where do We go

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Where do We go?

Where do We go?

Where do we go? It was the first question I asked myself when I discovered “Delete default post” WordPress plugin in the repository. Plugin makes exactly that is declared in its title – deletes the ‘Welcome to WordPress’ post and correspondent dummy “Hi, this is a comment” comment which every WordPress blog has just after fresh installation. The question is “What should the author of this plugin think about its potential users to propose them such functionality?”.
If user can install and activate plugin he/she definitely can to delete unneeded post or comment using WordPress built-in functionality. Post and comment has hint about such possibility too. If blogger can’t delete unneeded post or comment –
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MyEasyBackup plugin security update

Monday, March 1st, 2010

WordPress plugin security fix

WordPress plugin security fix

I’m glad to inform you that the MyEasyBackup WordPress plugin security issue I reported yesterday for 0.0.2 version is fixed with 0.0.3 version. It is perfect. Wonderfully! Thanks to Ugo Grandolini aka “camaleo” for so fast reaction and reliable security update.

MyEasyBackup WordPress plugin is useful for those who wish to get blog backup copies on a regular base and doesn’t familiar with tar, gzip, mysqldump, linux shell, etc. or just doesn’t have SSH access to his/her blog. User friendly interface lets you make full blog backup really easy. So “MyEasyBackup” confirms its name by its functionality.

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MyEasyBackup plugin breaks WordPress security

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

WP breaked by plugin

WP breaked by plugin

MyEasyBackup WordPress plugin can make your life easier simplifying WordPress files and MySQL data backup operation. But be aware when installing its version 0.0.2 as this version simplifies the life to the intruders also. It is a new, just published plugin. WordPress.org Stats page shows 280 downloads already at the moment I write this post. This plugin can become popular. But plugin author Ugo Grandolini needs to make security fix to his code ASAP as plugin gives access to the critical blog data to any curious intruder. Do you wish to check it yourself?
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IP Logger WordPress plugin review

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

IP Logger Review

IP Logger Review

Plugin Name:IP Logger v.2.8
Date of review: 24th January 2010
Rating: 3.0
Author profile: M. Retzlaff
WordPress plugin directory link: IP Logger

“IP Logger” WordPress plugin tracks records about every visitor of your site in the separate MySQL table in your WordPress blog database. Visitor’s information has a lot of data including IP-address, user agent, country code, country name, city, etc… Convenient graphical visual presentation for that data is available via admin dashboard widget. Data can be exported into CSV or XML format. Plugin offers undesirable visitors blocking feature also.

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