I have domains, and specifically WordPress sites, on several different servers. Most of the time when I update plugins, its a simple click and the plugin updates automatically. However, on some domains the update process halts to ask for FTP server information including the server name, login username, and password. I have to type this…

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A few days ago I talked about an error with the TimThumb.php script that did not allow it to display thumbnails properly because of a permissions issue. I just learned today that the entire PHP script has some vulnerabilities. For this reason, if you are using TimThumb.php in WordPress or any other platform like Drupal,…

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Nowadays it seems pretty routine to upgrade WordPress. Go into your WP-Admin control panel, click on upgrade WordPress Automatically and everything is downloaded, installed and upgraded without any issues…Most of the time. I tried to upgrade a WordPress site the other day, though, and was met by the following error after the upgrade failed. Fatal…

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