The “Break it Down” Blog

AntiVir Detecting HTML/Infected.WebPage.Gen Virus on WordPress

Guys, if you are seeing something like this when you visit this site: It’s OK — It looks like AntiVir (among other antivirus companies) have decided to detect remote iFrame references in webpages as a “virus” — unfortunately WordPress (like this site) and many of the WordPress plugins make use of iFrames to work. A lot of [...]

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Akismet: Unknown column ‘pingback_views’ in ‘field list’ on line: 529

I wouldn’t normally post this because it seemed so insignificant, but recently when I’ve been trying to mark certain pingback traffic as spam with Akismet, I’ve been getting a plain white page with the following error on it: Unknown column 'pingback_views' in 'field list' on line: 529 I couldn’t remember when this started happening, it might have [...]

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4 WordPress Tips for Surviving Slashdot, Digg, Reddit or StumbleUpon

We got a story on the front page of Slashdot… and got our assess handed to us literally 2mins later with server load jumping from 0.56 to 10 and then off into the 40s where the server just decided to melt instead of host pages. During the last few hours we’ve been troubleshooting what went wrong [...]

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WordPress 2.6 Released – New Feature Summary

Publishers rejoice, WordPress 2.6 has been released and while I initially anticipated it to be a bug-fix release to follow 2.5.1, it looks like the WordPress team has snuck in quite a few sexy features. We’ll take a look at each below piece-by-piece which are reviewed in the WordPress 2.6 feature movie here. Outline Gears – Turbo [...]

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Enabling Comments on Every Wordpress Page

Ok this might seem trivial to the smarter WordPress folks out there, but I’m dumb… dumb like a sack of rocks and didn’t just figure this out until now. If you’ve been using WordPress for years and always wondered why the ‘Add a Comments’ section only show up on the front page of the blog and [...]

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Speeding up your WordPress Site: PHP Speedy and YSlow

Grant Gochnauer just sent a link over to a sweet little PHP-site optimization piece of software called PHP Speedy from Acid Drop. The premise of the software is that once installed, you walk through a very nicely polished wizard-based setup telling PHP Speeding which things you want it to optimize: At the last stage of the wizard [...]

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