During last few weeks we’ve found that a few of our client’s sites are infected with malicious javascript code, which appeared to be the result of a virus work. The virus behaviour is similar to so-known Gumblar virus. Here is a short summary of what this virus does:
With this article we continue to share our experience of implementation the websites with free popular engines like WordPress , Drupal , Joomla etc. After delivering hundreds of such projects to the clients we collected number of tips/solutions which we think may be useful for other developers or clients. If you are interested in solutions to some problems you faced with please feel free to contact us - we’ll try to cover them as well.
If you ever tried to develop the WordPress sites you most probably faced with the problem we are describing. When you develop a WordPress site there is 99,9% chance that after development you need to move it from one server to another and even not just once. At the first glance there are no issues for more or less experienced developer - you … read more
Wordpress has already become a very popular free blog engine mostly thanks to the extensibility with the help of plug-ins. Since version 2.1 famous Wordpress Widgets were integrated. This mechanism allows to manage blocks in sidebar. In more difficult sites which are built with WP often there is a need of using different sidebars on different pages. Here come troubles with using widgets. The majority of widgets can be added only once. You can easily find articles on how to create widgets in the Internet. The main article is on Wordpress codex site (read wordpress widgets API article).
The article ends on section “Widgets - One or many ” with such words: “… Wordpress is doing the work for you to instantiate your Widget multiple times if you follow some rules.”. Actually in this article we want to describe these rules, because we can’t find them … read more