Deploying WordPress: Syncing Files in a Multi-Server Installation
Recently, some of my company’s WordPress sites have become so popular that I chose to migrate them onto a multiple-webserver deployment system in order to keep up with the traffic. I encountered some...
View ArticleWordPress: Format wp_head() Output as HTML 4.01 Transitional
While I’m perhaps no longer as much of a purist as I used to be, whenever I’m tasked with writing HTML, I usually go to great lengths to make sure that it is valid. For academic reasons beyond the...
View ArticleIntroducing “Foresight”– A WordPress Security Plugin
I recently published a new plugin to the WordPress.org Plugins Directory. I call it Foresight. It is available for download here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/foresight/ Foresight is a simple...
View ArticleVideo: Deploying WordPress on Multiple Load-Balanced Servers on Amazon EC2
I gave this brief talk about deploying a high-traffic WordPress site on EC2 in Fall 2011 at the Gainesville Hackerspace. The content discussed here can be considered a follow-up to my post on solving a...
View ArticleA Payload Dump from a Malfunctioning WordPress Spam Bot
I just stumbled onto this comment in a client’s WordPress database, and thought it was kind of interesting. It looks like a spam bot malfunctioned such that it output all of (or at least, a large...
View ArticleMaking WordPress Domain-agnostic
I like WordPress a lot. It’s one of my favorite open-source projects, and I use it often for both my professional and personal projects. It’s been my go-to web development framework for a number of...
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