Ever since the release of WordPress 3.0 a couple months ago, people have been moving quickly to implement one of it’s most useful new features, the Custom Navigation Menus. They are easy to create, even easier to manage and generally help stop developers from constantly coming up with different and disperate solutions to this very… Read more »
Month: August 2010
CodeIgniter XSS Protection is good, but not enough by itself.
I have been looking at CodeIgniter lately mainly because a lot of my colleagues are using it already. As with most frameworks, I usually start using the framework in a project and then as I am developing the application, I notice some issues with the framework. One such case is with CodeIgniter’s built-in XSS protection. This functionality is quite nice (at least they included it in the framework) but there are some issues with using it that developers should be aware of.
Using Apache to better secure WordPress
This is part 1 in a series to inform developers and administrators on the best methods to lock down their WordPress installations. By following even just some of the steps in these guides, one should be able to avoid many of the common security issues with WP.