WordPress Attacks

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The ContentRobot team has been monitoring the ongoing brute-force attacks against WordPress sites, which has been escalating in recent weeks. One or more illegal botnets are being used to attack WordPress sites by trying as many username and password combinations as possible in order to find valid login credentials. They are being relentless and can … Read More

2009 is just about done …

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Today is New Year’s eve, wow! Where has the time gone? The ContentRobot team launched WeFixWP about 14 months ago and since then we’ve been able to fix, migrate, upgrade many WordPress bloggers throughout the world. Some of the more interesting bloggers we helped in 2009 were: TV bloggers  Give Me My Remote and theTVaddict … Read More

Meet WeFixWP at BlogWorld Expo #bwe09

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WeFixWP is getting ready to head to Las Vegas for the biggest conference in our industry: BlogWorld Expo. We are excited catch up with old friends, clients, and colleagues! There are so many good sessions to attend, the show floor looks packed with great companies, and (of course) the parties are legendary. If that wasn’t … Read More

Just in time … WordPress 2.8.1 arrives

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Today WordPress announced the launch of its latest version: 2.8.1. The WeFixWP team couldn’t be more happy! While we have had the pleasure of helping a bunch of new clients who blindly pressed that “Update to 2.8” button, many people were often caught unaware of what an automatic upgrade can do to production blogs. We … Read More

Meet the WeFixWP Team at SXSW Interactive

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Our travel plans are complete – WeFixWP will be at this year’s SXSW! This conference: … celebrates the creativity and passion behind the coolest new media technologies. In addition to panel sessions that cover everything from web design to bootstrapping to social networks, attendees make new business connections at the three-day Trade Show & Exhibition … Read More

WordPress 2.7 and Auto Updates

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WordPress 2.7 or “Coltrane” was released last night. Here are some of the features you can look forward to: A new interface that allows you to do things faster with fewer clicks. A drag-and-drop dashboard that allows you to arrange the things that are most important to you (actually everything is pretty customizable now). Install … Read More

What Happened to My Blog's Sidebars in IE?

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The WeFixWP team has been fielding a lot of questions this week about missing sidebars when viewing the blog in Internet Explorer. If your blog looked OK one day and a mess the next, the fix can be actually pretty simple. Here’s what check for first: Review some of your recent posts by Manage > … Read More

WordPress 2.6.5 is available

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Yesterday, the WordPress team announced their newest software release: 2.6.5. According to Ryan Boren … WordPress 2.6.5 is immediately available and fixes one security problem and three bugs. We recommend everyone upgrade to this release. The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on … Read More