Some time ago I read about a critical vulnerability present in WordPress 4.7.0 and 4.7.1(it was seriously severe, it primarily let attackers change data in your DB using restful API), and I had a website that I did back in 2015, the problem is that I did the theme using _e function
(mostly on the front page) for translations as it was a multilingual website. Anyway, I updated from 4.7.2 to 4.7.3 and <<BAM>> all translations were broken. It was a bit curious though why this u...
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A few days back I had started noticing that results displayed in google were delivered awful slow. I thought maybe my main router doesn't work as it should, I checked and saw that current resources consumption levels and the average on last days resource consumption were below 1%, I had the latest pFsense firmware update and no noticeable problem in the logs. In fact, it was unusual as more than one device(with different OS-es) was affected by the problem, so I did a bit of research and found ou...
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An acquittance of mine ask me if I could send in his place an email that could not be hard/impossible to trace, so I said don't be paranoid even a toddler can do that. Yeah most of us think that secret services can do almost anything, but newsflash there is a TON of info that is hard to spy or was never spied globally. Just think about all that junk that exists as "info" today, if you think about it, every couple of years or so the quantity of information on the internet is multiplied by a facto...
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So if you want a WordPress plugin for managing downloads and to be capable of working with external URLs you can choose this plugin(wp-downloadmanager). Unfortunately on the WordPress plugin directory, there aren't so many plugins that have in their design external URLs, of course, external URLs aren't what you would want most of the time but there are some cases where such URLs are preferred and this was my case too. After installing this plugin I detected that it had a bug exactly when working...
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