I just pasted the URL of a Picasa album below :picasaweb.google.com/107310476656218787840/PieterSUkulele
Using the raw URL doesn’t work but making it a link will take you to the album at Picasa
You have to use the Photonic “shortcode” to make it work. The general shortcode format is:
[bracket]gallery type=’picasa’ user_id=’abc’ album=’ablum_name’[closebracket]
So I’m going to use
[bracket]gallery type=’picasa’ user_id=’107310476656218787840′ album=’PieterSUkulele’[closebracket]
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:
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 Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner and is available from the WordPress.org plugin directory.
This vulnerability is now widely know and websites are being hacked.
This is a serious issue, you DO …
The best free backup plugin, the one I’ve been using on my site and recommend and install for my clients is BackWPup. 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.
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’s still broken.
What to do? Well …
I thought I’d try out the upcoming version of WordPress since it’s now already rolled out on wordpress.com. I want to see what plugins and themes break before I recommend upgrading to my clients.
So far everything seems to be working with RC2, RC3 3.2 (with one exception….*)
* BackWPup plugin is currently busted, but there is an interim workaround patch for a previous version that works with WP 3.2.
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’s site.
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). This is NOT something I would recommend that you do right away!
The results — at first blush everything still seems to be working…
That’s good news. But it’s going to take …
This presentation just won 3rd prize on the “Worlds Best Presentation Contest 2010″ at SlideShare. It’s worth the look.
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