Ready to release your website? Think again!
So your application / blog / service is ready for release! But, are you sure you didn’t forget important features? In many cases the joy of creativity creates the need to share and show off our creation to overlap our viability senses losing sight of the obvious.
For the reason above, we have compiled a checklist to be applied before a new project release. Here it is, featuring a explanation of necessity for each item Read more…
How to set the default Featured Image and Description when sharing your posts on Facebook
When sharing a link on Facebook, its service tries to parse the linked page and extract as much information as possible from it. Facebook tries to extract the title, a short description and an image from the linked page. While this information may be extracted by the standard meta-information means of the page like page title and meta-description, the author may recommend the default values to the users sharing the link.
For the Facebook service to extract the relevant meta-information recommended by the author, it uses another meta-information protocol, named Open Graph Protocol (OG). One may view this protocol as just another meta-information protocol for web pages. While the new version of Open Graph Protocol, which changes everything, is still in beta, there will be backwards compatibility with the current version. Read more…
How to make your WordPress Featured Image appear in your RSS Feed
After experiencing social media and how web sharing works, I understood that images are very important for the promotion of blog posts. Having been using WordPress for quite some time, I’ve seen that Featured Images are a great way to make an image appear differently on the main page and inside the post page and by using thumbnails you can have both worlds; beautiful and small thumbnails on the main page and a full image inside the post.
One problem that this has created though, is that WordPress by default does not show the Featured Post image inside your blog’s RSS feed. By adding Read more…
Solve the FeedBurner API Zero Subscriber Problem with Caching
Feedburner returns zero subscribers? This can’t be true!
Well, you ‘re right, this isn’t true; probably due to high load, the FeedBurner web service returning the current RSS circulation (subscribers) response is zero. This seems to happen every day for 4-5 hours.
I decided to deal with this while solving the caching problem at the same time; the idea is simple: cache the FeedBurner circulation response if it is not 0, and always show the cached result. Read more…
TimThumb Vulnerability in a Nutshell
The TimThumb image resizing utility has been found vulnerable by allowing the remote execution of arbitrary code. TimThumb is widely used by many WordPress themes, both commercial and free, and this vulnerability is expected to have a great impact, since the script name returns 84 million results on Google searches alone.
TimThumb was created by Ben Gillbanks, who, after discovering the vulnerability – and after Matt Mullenweg (WordPress founder) suggested it – joined forces with Mark Maunder (WordThumb author). They created TimThumb 2, a complete rewrite of the original code, having security in mind, whilst adding the extra features WordThumb already had. It is now highly advisable to upgrade to the newer version. Authors claim that, although a rewrite, it is fully backwards compatible. Read more…
