Fervens design screenshot

The theme is by a loyal Smashing Magazine reader, Elena Gafita, and the design is by far one of the most beautiful I have yet seen.

Grab your own copy here: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/05/fervens-a-free-wordpress-theme/

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New design, once again

The site is now running stable, and it is a pleasure to work with the new version of Wordpress, I have yet to experience all the updates, but I am eager to play around with it.

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Short downtime experienced - Wordpress 2.6

The plugin is very easy to install, and it immediately helps you to browse the site much easier.

The plugin is free, as most Wordpress plugins, and it will help all your users have a better experience if they browse your site via their iPhone.

I have been looking for a plugin for this for quite some time, and was thinking about putting one up myself, but that would have required a lot more research and time than I have at the moment.

Try browsing the site via your iPhone, and feel free to leave comments and observations on your experience, is there room for improvement? If so, where?

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iPhone friendly version of tutorialvine.com

I will give a more detailed review later on of the plugin, but for now, I can tell you the current prices for advertising here on tutorialvine.com

Text links:

• Homepage: $3 for 30 days
• Sitewide: $5 for 30 days

Purchase here

Banners (125×125 pixels):

• Sitewide: $5 for 30 days

Purchase here

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New advertising opportunities

After a bit of conversation back and forth with bluehost they helped me locate where the culprit was located and reinstated my access, so I could delete the offending script and clean up in general on the site.

I am still worried that there are open areas on one of my accounts, but I have been cleaning up as best I can, and will continue to do so.

Bluehost.com was very helpful in getting my account reinstated, and I am very happy for their assistance. I am reminded of the proverb of “a friend in need, is a friend indeed”. Kudos to Bluehost. If you are looking for a new hosting provider, I can give them my thumbs up.

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Hacked again and account suspended!

I was not focused when I transferred the site, and did not notice that I was importing the previous site data to the wrong database. It took me a while to recognize.

I made the decision to use the great Wordpress theme, The Morning After, which I use on my own personal blog as well.  I really like it, and hope you do too

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Sorry for the downtime

Alright, not really what I wanted to happen on a Monday evening.

I came home, and just before I started to make dinner, I went to check my mail, in there was a mail from an advertiser that an ad was not showing, and naturally I went to the site to check.

Lo and behold, my site was hacked, and the hacker installed the c99madshell v. 2.0 on my domain.

Searching for information I found only vague information, and never really found out how the ‚Ǩ#”%”‚Ǩ# hacker came in.

I started by updating my Wordpress installation to the latest version, and then went hunting. I found the script in my themes folder, where it replaced one the .php files.

The only information I found that gave any clue to where to look was here: http://www.devside.net/blog/smf-exploit-like-phpbb-hack

I included below screenshot, which is from the same blog-entry (credit where credit is due) since I focused on removing the hack instead of documenting it. I hope the owner does not take offence.

Removing it was fairly easy once I knew where to look, but I had to have a serious look around to see where it was hidden.

So, what did I learn from this? To backup, backup often, and to always update my Wordpress installations.

Have you had a visit?

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A hacker came by with c99madshell v. 2.0 madnet edition