WordPress Teaches Me Something New About RSS

So I was going through the RSS Feed of my new blog The Big Seminar First Timer and discovered hey! Now this feed rocks! It's attractive! I could not only see the HTML formatting but also images and Instant Video Generator Video straight from my feed! I looked through the raw feed that WordPress generated and now I see how it's achieved. Cool - learnt something again!

WordPress Possible Security Measure

Recently I had to help a few people with their phpBB forums because of the rash of hacking acitivity. One of the things that made the vulnerable forums stand out is the version was published for all to see in the footer pages. So all someone has to do is search for phpbb version X footprints out there and you now have a list of vulnerable forums. As I was updating the Tech Based Marketing blog today, I realized many WordPress themes including the default also betrayed their version numbers in the page footer. "Now that can't be good" I thought since WordPress is very popular and probably getting more so, sooner or later someone's bound to target them... So I did a very simple low-tech security measure - remove the version number from my footer pages. Of course this won't really beef up anything as far as code security is concerned but why make it easy for them to mutilate my page right?

Aww Shoot. Not WordPress!

As you may know I'm a happy WordPress user. So this article on eWeek really caught my eye. My initial thought is... relief that this is not a problem with the script itself but a question of search engine optimization (or trickery) methods. At this point it's still not clear at least to me because it is claimed to be an effort to generate some cash for the project by hosting those pages. But I guess many will still not be happy with that. Do I still think WordPress is a good blog tool? Oh yes. Will I continue to use it? No reason why not