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HTTP_COOKIE was the only one I was really worried about.

I guess you can close the ticket now https://dev.wp-plugins.org/ticket/314

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Good work whooami ??

I’m not a tinfoilhat wearer, just think session cookies shouldn’t be treated lightly.

Matt, the issue is session cookies. Not just for wordpress but for your whole domain. They allow you ( akismet ) to log in to the wordpress install, and possibly other cmses running on your domain.

I’m just not sure if it’s on purpose or not?

No, actually the codex says “Instructions on this page apply only to bugs in the WordPress core, and do not apply to bugs in plugins.”

It’s not a security problem if you trust matt/akismet – they are the only ones with access to the session cookies.

Also it’s a 3rd party plugin issue, not a wordpress issue per se. It’s just that this plugin is included by default and users of wordpress should be aware about this 3rd party service and it’s security and privacy implications.

I have submitted a bug to the plugin author, but I posted here as a warning about using the plugin, not as a bug or security report.

macmanx this was already reported publicly almost a month ago.
https://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/spam-stopper/2005-October/000223.html

For those that missed it, Matt responded in this thread: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic.php?id=23657

@philpeeps The topic was LOCKED so no one could respond.

Google looks like it HAS banned wordpress. PageRank 0 on the toolbar, and when you search for wordpress you don’t get the homepage. And when you search for www.ads-software.com you get “Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.ads-software.com”.

BTW, for those linking to wordpress, be aware of this google webmaster guideline :

In particular, avoid links to web spammers or “bad neighborhoods” on the web as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.

I have written software to do this for bBlog. Not to difficult but I don’t think you’ll find a free program to do this as most people wanting to do multi hosting are doing it for money.

The main thing is to get the software running off one set of files. So hacking the config.php, to check which domain it is for and then getting the config for that domain out of the database.

If you only support php templates, then people who don’t already know php will have to learn it.
And the same goes with smarty. But I think that the smarty syntax is easier to learn than the php syntax for beginners who don’t know either.
But Smarty only comes into it’s own when you use it to it’s full potential. that is smarty based plugins , caching and functions. Example: Putting {getlinks cat=’blogs_i_red’} will get a list of links of the blogs you read and put them into your template. Also stuff like {$post.datetime|date_format:since} will output the post’s date and format using the ‘since’ style ( 3 hours ago etc)
It means the templates tell the program what to display, not the other way round, making the program more efficent by not doing stuff that’s not shown in the templates.
But to have something like that requires a modularized OO core . I did consider adding smarty to wordpress but I thought it would have been quicker to write a blogging app from scratch (bBlog) and that way I could take full advantage of Smarty. Just becasue I love smarty so much.

RSS/ATOM is for syndication, and doesn’t take into account different features of blogs.
For example to change from MT to wordpress you will want all the sections, the users, the comments, the trackbacks all in one file.

You don’t need real directories. If mod rewrite doesn’t work, does this : ?
Create a file called ‘archives’ and put in it
<?
echo $_SERVER[‘PATH_INFO’];
?>
in .htaccess put :
<Files archives>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>
Now, when you go https://www.youryoursite.com/archives/2003/04/21 you should see something like /2003/04/21
Basicly, you can then include index.php into that file after setting some paramaters. ( this is how bblog does it, and how i’ve always done it rather than mod rewrite. I’m not sure which is more compatible in terms of hosts supporting it .. the Files directive or mod rewrite.

Just be cause you’re paranoid, don’t mean the’re not after you.

Unless someone has added adsense code to CVS (Very Unlikely) you’ve got scumware.
Try using a scumware remover.

hmm .
Maybe
if(!function_exists(“make_clickable”)) {
function make_clickable($text) {
. …
}
}
in the wordpress code