Migrating from Jekyll to WordPress

Funnily enough, there aren’t all that many resources for people who’re moving from Jekyll to WordPress. I took some advice from a post by Fabrizio Regini, but had to modify it a bit, so here’s what I figured out… My starting point was a Jekyll-based site stored on github. Comments were stored using Disqus. As …

Vulnerable

One of my sites got hacked. How? My spouse tried out a number of WordPress themes while setting up their blog a year or two ago. One of them contained something called timthumb.php, which just this August was found to have a great big security vulnerability. Someone exploited this vulnerability, probably by scanning for every …

del.icio.us widget

I couldn’t find a WordPress widget that produced output similar to del.icio.us’s linkrolls script. (You can just put their script into a Text widget, but its output doesn’t always mesh well with WordPress themes – it hardcodes h2s, and so forth.) The Automattic example widget came close, but was a bit lacking on the customization …

Three gigabytes free…ish

WordPress.com announced yesterday that all users get three gigabytes of upload space for free. This is a teensy upgrade from 50MB. This seems to be primarily for psychological reasons, because there’s a big fat * after the upgrade. The footnote is that Mr. Mullenweg mentions in this post that “[y]ou still need a space upgrade …