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Attack on Wordpress – “http://www.indesignstudioinfo.com/ls.php”

Steven Gun — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:28:42 +0000

Some of my blogs have suffered the “http://www . indesignstudioinfo . com / ls.php” attack.
What this attack did to my blogs was to add base64 encripted code to one or more .php files on my host.

After searching for a few hours, I found out that this encripted code adds a redirect to some trojan infected websites.

More findings:

It seems that GoDaddy hosted sites have experienced this attack more often than others.
Not only Wordpress installations have this problem but also other .php based websites – Joomla sites were also reported as infected.

The solution to “http : // www . indesignstudioinfo . com / ls . php” Wordpress attack was very easy… after finding it.

I think that Sucuri, the developer of the clean-up script deserves at least a link, so here it is:
http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/05/simple-cleanup-solution-for-the-latest-wordpress-hack.html

Please visit his site for full instructions on the clean-up process. It only takes a few minutes to get rid of those nasty redirects.

Thanks Sucuri!

How to integrate your Twitter tweets in your Wordpress theme

Steven Gun — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:31:09 +0000

I have been doing a lot of searching for a way to integrate Twitter tweets in my themes without the help of any plugin. If you are reading this, I suppose you are looking for the same thing. Here it is how:

Step 1. Where ever you want your tweets listed (sidebar.php, single.php, footer.php) insert these 2 lines of code:

1 2	include_once(ABSPATH.WPINC.'/rss.php'); wp_rss('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/48605233.rss', 3); ?>

The first line calls the Wordpress built-in RSS functions.
The second line prints your feed. The first parameter is the feed URL and the second one is the number of feed items to list.

Step 2. Go to you Twitter profile http://twitter.com/yourprofile and in the sidebar search for “RSS feed of YourUserName’s tweets”. Right click and copy the link. The link should be something like: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/87299070.rss. The number is your Twitter Feed ID number.

Step 3. In the code above replace the URL with the URL you have copied from Twitter.

Save your work and enjoy!

Reference:http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/02/10-useful-rss-hacks-for-wordpress/

Add Thumbnails to the WP-Postviews Plugin

Steven Gun — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:13:13 +0000

What choices do you have for listing most viewed posts?

The first one that comes to my mind is WP-Postviews plugin by Lester Chan. I am using it on many of my Wordpress powered websites, including TNT Base.

You can find it here: http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-postviews.html

Everything works great with Lester’s plugin, it does what is supposed to, but I needed a little bit more. I wanted to show thumbnails of the most viewed posts. All those of you runing photoblogs should know what I am talking about.

So, after hours of searching and even a short talk to Lester, I have come up with my way of doing it.

Here is my solution:

Basically what we need to do is

To create a function that lists the thumbnail of a post
To integrate this function into Lesters great plugin

I have found this function here: http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-get-the-first-image-from-the-post-and-display-it

The function to list thumbnails of the first image in a post goes like this:

function catch_that_image() {
  global $post, $posts;
  $first_img = '';
  ob_start();
  ob_end_clean();
  $output = preg_match_all('//i', $post->post_content, $matches);
  $first_img = $matches [1] [0];
  if(empty($first_img)){ //Defines a default image
    $first_img = "/images/default.jpg";
  }
  return $first_img;
}

This must be in the functions.php file inside your theme.
Now, you can list on the home page or anywhere else in your theme the thumbnail of the image in a post by inserting

1	echo catch_that_image() ;?>" style="width:100px; height:auto;" alt="" />

In order to have this integrated with WP-Postviews plugin you must edit wp-postviews.php which is in the /wp-content/plugins/wp-postviews/ folder of your blog.
In my example we will list the thumbnails for the most viewed posts by category, but you can do it for any of the functions in the same way.
So, in the wp-postviews.php find this line
### Function: Display Most Viewed Page/Post By Category ID
Under this line there must be many $temp rows. Add the following row:

1	$temp = str_replace("%THUMBNAIL%", catch_that_image(), $temp);

At this point you have finished coding.
Now, go back to your Dashboard settings for WP-Postviews and in the Template for Most Viewed Posts by Category use the newly created “%THUMBNAIL%”.
REMEMBER: thumbnail is a link so use it like

1	<img src="%THUMBNAIL" alt="" />

Hope it helps and I am right here to answer future questions on this topic. Until then, please leave a comment if you can improve my method or if you know a better one and don’t forget to subscribe to my RSS if you find this topic interesting.