Fake Wordpress site releasing backdoored code

Don’t mistype “wordpress.org” because you could end up downloading compromised code. Some hackers have set up www.wordpresz.org. The code sends cookie contents to a hacked program hosted on wordpresz.org and could expose passwords and other identifying information.

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Best Adsense ad units and Places

Earning money is the first target for most of the bloggers online. Nothing wrong in that, usually everyone will try Adsense first. When it comes to results you might found that the blog with less traffic than yours will get more $ into their bags.

That all depends on the tricks they are using in choosing the ad unit and choosing the right place to display them. Here today i will share some of the tips covering which ad units to select? and where to place them?

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10 Grate Corporate Revolution2 Themes for Free

Brian Gardner released the open source themes set Revolution2, A successor to Revolution1. He released it a day before than the expected, As per the plan he announced the release expected on Nov 1st,2008.At the moment, the suite contains 10 themes ready and expected 4 more to be added to it. Following links will take you to demos & downloads of the each themes:

Revolution Code Blue (Demo & Download)

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Great WordPress plug-in to make RSS signatures

Sig2feed is a great WordPress plug-in to make signature or put an text/image advertisement under your feeds. Sig2feed’s primary goal is to provide a simple administration interface to allow the addition of a custom tagline, signature or © copyright message to the WordPress generated RSS feeds. You can add any kind of message, tag, or even images — as long as it can be displayed in an RSS feed, it’s up to you.

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WordPress 2.6.3 Is Out

Today WordPress released yet another patch to WordPress 2.6.2 and called as 2.6.3.Just to overcome a low risk vulnerability of 2.6.2 WordPress dev team added two security fixes to it. You can download a full version of 2.6.3 or just copy them over your 2.6.2 installation.

Patches are here for download:

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$1500+ Contest @ Blogging Tips by Kevin

It’s been a very long time since we had a competition at Blogging Tips. Not wanting to do it half assed I decided to make it a 7 week long competition where $1,000 in cash will be dished out to 50 bloggers and over $500 in prizes will be up for grabs. Some blogging friends have also kindly donated some prizes to the competition so every wednesday a question or challenge will be posed and a prize will be given to the winner(s).

Cash Prizes - Competition Ends 12pm ET

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20 Free Corporate WordPress Themes

These are the 20 Great corporate WordPress themes I came across at Blogsessive.Good collection by Blogsessive. All the themes and downloads are from the respective owner sites and subject to their copyrights. Please visit their authors’ sites, available at the “Info & Download” link, to learn more about each of these themes.
20 Free Corporate WordPress Themes are here
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What are Trackbacks and Pingbacks ?

I am dam sure that most of the new Bloggers doesn’t know what are Trackbacks and Pingbacks. They see these words often in blogging but never think of it. These are very important to know as a fresh Blogger. Even these will help in promoting your blogs. So let me take this opportunity to explain you a little bit on those. I don’t want to explain in my own words, so just presenting the modified content from WordPress itself.

Trackbacks: In a nutshell, TrackBack was designed to provide a method of notification between websites: it is a method of person A saying to person B, “This is something you may be interested in.” To do that, person A sends a TrackBack ping to person B.
A better explanation is this:
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25 Great WordPress Plugins!

After writing Must install wordpress plug-ins for your new blog! Article, I was searching for some more useful plugins. Those are here for you. Gathered from different sources.
25 Great WordPress Plugins!
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Top 10 Tips for New Bloggers

While browsing for some good tips to teach new Bloggers, I came across a wonderful article at Wired by Jorn Barger. Barger, a most experienced Blogger explained his learning’s gained in his 10Yrs Blogging experience. Here is a list of top 10 tips for new Bloggers:

1. A true weblog is a log of all the URLs you want to save or share. (So del.icio.us is actually better for blogging than blogger.com.)
2. You can certainly include links to your original thoughts, posted elsewhere … but if you have more original posts than links, you probably need to learn some humility.
3. If you spend a little time searching before you post, you can probably find your idea well articulated elsewhere already.
4. Being truly yourself is always hipper than suppressing a link just because it’s not trendy enough. Your readers need to get to know you.
5. You can always improve on the author’s own page title, when describing a link. (At least make sure your description is full enough that readers will recognize any pages they’ve already visited, without having to visit them again.)
6. Always include some adjective describing your own reaction to the linked page (great, useful, imaginative, clever, etc.)
7. Credit the source that led you to it, so your readers have the option of “moving upstream.”
   Warn about “gotchas” — weird formatting, multipage stories, extra-long files, etc. Don’t camouflage the main link among unneeded (or poorly labeled) auxiliary links.
8. Pick some favorite authors or celebrities and create a Google News feed that tracks new mentions of them, so other fans can follow them via your weblog.
9. Re-post your favorite links from time to time, for people who missed them the first time.
10. So make use of these tips to get success.

Thanks to Wired and Jorn Barger. Happy Blogging!

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