exploring Social Media Marketing so YOU don't have to 2012-01-13T21:00:44Z http://hartsook.com/feed/atom/ WordPress http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gifTheHartsookLetterhttp://feedburner.google.com Pieter Hartsook http://hartsook.com/blog http://hartsook.com/?p=674 2012-01-13T21:00:41Z 2011-09-20T02:21:38Z

<p>I just pasted the URL of a Picasa album below :picasaweb.google.com/107310476656218787840/PieterSUkulele</p> <p> Using the raw URL doesn&#8217;t work but making it a link will take you to the album at Picasa</p> <p>You have to use the Photonic &#8220;shortcode&#8221; to make it work. The general shortcode format is:</p> <p>[bracket]gallery type=&#8217;picasa&#8217; user_id=&#8217;abc&#8217; album=&#8217;ablum_name&#8217;[closebracket]</p> <p>So I&#8217;m going to use</p> <p>[bracket]gallery type=&#8217;picasa&#8217; user_id=&#8217;107310476656218787840&#8242; album=&#8217;PieterSUkulele&#8217;[closebracket]</p> <p>&#8230;</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHartsookLetter/~4/00C7uBNg2tI" height="1" width="1"/>

0 http://hartsook.com/2011/testing-a-new-picasa-and-flicker-plugin-for-wordpress-photonic/ Pieter Hartsook http://hartsook.com/blog http://hartsook.com/?p=658 2012-01-13T21:00:41Z 2011-09-08T07:13:41Z

<p>There is a great post on the background of this problem by Mark Maunder that I recommend you read to understand the severity of the issue:</p> <h2><a href="http://markmaunder.com/2011/08/02/technical-details-and-scripts-of-the-wordpress-timthumb-php-hack/" target="_blank">Technical details and scripts of the WordPress TimThumb.php hack</a></h2> <p> but even better Mark has written a WordPress plugin that you can install. It will find any vulnerable copies of timthumb.php and allow you to update them to a secure version. The plugin is called <strong>Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner </strong>and is available from the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/timthumb-vulnerability-scanner/?compatibility%5Bversion%5D=3.2.1&#38;compatibility%5Btopic_version%5D=1.3&#38;compatibility%5Bcompatible%5D=1" target="_blank">WordPress.org plugin directory</a>.</p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">This vulnerability is now widely know and websites are being hacked. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>This is a serious issue, you DO </strong></span>&#8230;</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHartsookLetter/~4/yr5gmGRwYTQ" height="1" width="1"/>

0 http://hartsook.com/2011/timthumb-security-risk-and-solution/ Pieter Hartsook http://hartsook.com/blog http://hartsook.com/?p=644 2012-01-13T21:00:41Z 2011-07-28T20:13:10Z

<p>The best free backup plugin, the one I&#8217;ve been using on my site and recommend and install for my clients is <strong><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/" target="_blank">BackWPup</a></strong>.  It backs up your database and your files too. And it can automatically create and send the backups to Dropbox, Amazon S3, and other cloud-based storage spaces.</p> <p>The problem is that in the upgrade to WordPress 3.2 and the corresponding upgrade to the plugin (2.0), the plugin has broken! The developer is working on a fix and has a development version in the works, but my testing of that version finds it&#8217;s <em>still</em> broken.</p> <p>What to do? Well &#8230;</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHartsookLetter/~4/0TQgb74BuiA" height="1" width="1"/>

1 http://hartsook.com/2011/wordpress-backwpup-backup-plugin-is-broken/ Pieter Hartsook http://hartsook.com/blog http://hartsook.com/?page_id=615 2011-07-19T22:33:00Z 2011-07-09T22:29:52Z

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0 http://hartsook.com/meta-page-with-association/ Pieter Hartsook http://hartsook.com/blog http://hartsook.com/?page_id=613 2011-07-09T22:35:17Z 2011-07-09T22:28:34Z

<p>test of Watch Out category on a page&#8230;</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHartsookLetter/~4/w51cla5s3pM" height="1" width="1"/>

0 http://hartsook.com/page-with-a-category/ Pieter Hartsook http://hartsook.com/blog http://hartsook.com/?p=586 2012-01-13T21:00:42Z 2011-06-27T21:44:44Z

<p>I thought I&#8217;d try out the upcoming version of WordPress since it&#8217;s now already rolled out on wordpress.com. I want to see what plugins and themes break before I recommend upgrading to my clients.</p> <p>So far everything seems to be working with <del>RC2</del>, <del>RC3</del> 3.2 (with one exception&#8230;.*)</p> <p>* BackWPup plugin is currently busted, but there is an interim workaround patch for a previous version that works with WP 3.2.&#8230;</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHartsookLetter/~4/rRtIZJov_x4" height="1" width="1"/>

0 http://hartsook.com/2011/testing-wordpress-3-2-release-candidates/ Pieter Hartsook http://hartsook.com/blog http://hartsook.com/?p=564 2012-01-13T21:00:42Z 2011-02-23T20:08:43Z

<p>I use the Hartsook Letter blog as a testbed for WordPress themes, tools, plugins, and extensions. I need to see how these work and ferret out potential interactions among the various extensions before I recommend them for a client&#8217;s site.</p> <p><a href="http://hartsook.com/wp-content/uploads/wordpressLogo.jpg" rel="lightbox[564]" title="wordpressLogo"></a>So when WordPress 3.1 was released today I hit the auto-update button to see what would happen (of course I had backed up my database and files first). <em>This is NOT something I would recommend that <span style="text-decoration: underline;">you</span> do right away!</em></p> <p>The results &#8212; at first blush everything still seems to be working&#8230;</p> <p>That&#8217;s good news. But it&#8217;s going to take &#8230;</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHartsookLetter/~4/m7KJVivHdkc" height="1" width="1"/>

0 http://hartsook.com/2011/i-have-56-plugins-and-just-upgraded-to-wordpress-3-1/ Pieter Hartsook http://hartsook.com/blog http://hartsook.com 2011-04-03T05:14:31Z 2011-01-11T09:07:18Z

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0 http://hartsook.com/portfolio/ Pieter Hartsook http://hartsook.com/blog http://hartsook.com/?p=477 2012-01-13T21:00:42Z 2010-12-10T20:27:57Z

This presentation just won 3rd prize on the "Worlds Best Presentation Contest 2010" at SlideShare. It's worth the look. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHartsookLetter/~4/ZgEjTTgqOYc" height="1" width="1"/>

0 http://hartsook.com/2010/prize-winning-slide-show-on-social-media-for-business/ Pieter Hartsook http://hartsook.com/blog http://hartsook.com/?p=450 2012-01-13T21:00:43Z 2010-12-06T23:10:24Z

<p>I first became aware of the <strong>Referrer Spam</strong> problem after installing and using the WordPress plugin <a href="http://hartsook.com/?p=256">Stat Surfer</a>. One of Stat Surfer&#8217;s statistics categories is Top Referrers. I noticed on a business-client&#8217;s site they were getting referral traffic from porn sites and other unlikely sites. Looking into why this was happening surfaced what apparently is a widespread abuse by spammers that tie up YOUR site resources and help boost search engine rankings for the spam sites.</p> <div style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"></div> <p>There are several ways to address the issue, most are relatively technical, requiring you modify code files, maintain keyword and site block-lists, etc., &#8230;</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHartsookLetter/~4/OvqijhvW5xY" height="1" width="1"/>

0 http://hartsook.com/2010/referrer-spam-can-you-do-about-it/