wordpress – Zeke Weeks

My #WP10 Story

WordPress is 10 years old today. I started making websites a few years earlier, but WordPress did something for me that all the HTML framesets, <table>-based layouts, and animated GIFs of the 1990s didn’t: it helped me find my voice. I encountered blogging in high school. This was when LiveJournal and Xanga were hot, and many…

Zeke Weeks

May 28, 2013

Blogging about blogging

wordpress, wp10

Facebook Timeline first reactions

I just turned on the new Facebook Timeline as per this howto guide. I don’t know how much people will use it, but wow, they’ve made memory lane a whole lot richer of an experience. There’s tons of stuff to look back on that I wouldn’t have had thought to document myself. Also, I was…

Zeke Weeks

September 22, 2011

Blogging about blogging, tech, The Social Web

facebook, social media, wordpress

Important security note for WordPress users

There’s a vulnerability in a piece of software called timthumb.php that is used by some self-hosted WordPress themes and plugins for image manipulation (not WordPress.com.) If you have shell access to your web server, go to your web root directory and run: find -name timthumb.php (If you can’t do it through the shell, check your…

Zeke Weeks

August 2, 2011

tech

security, timthumb, wordpress

PicPlz Sold Out: Why, Again, Are We Letting Fickle Startups Own our Content and Relationships?

I missed this last week: PicPlz is barely live as a service, and it’s already been spun off in a cash deal so its makers can be done with it. These little mobile apps combine convenience with effortless social interaction, but the final loyalty isn’t to the user. I’m hoping that the social sharing experience…

Zeke Weeks

July 13, 2011

tech

CMS, nofb, PicPlz, social, wordpress