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I was doing my dropping round last night when Avast warned me of a Trojan Horse found in a particular blog. The malware’s name was JS:Small-C[Trj]. Unlike last time when I found Trojan already infected my computer, this time, luckily, Avast managed to stop it before it entered my computer.
I went to Avast forum and found (at least) two threads about this here and here. Apparently this malware has attacked some websites that still running old version of WP. So if you haven’t upgraded your WP to 2.9.1 better do it now (duh) before it’s too late.
Also make sure you have the latest version of anti-virus or anti-malware software running on your computer to make sure you’re protected from these malicious activities. Dropping hundred of blogs everyday is a risky business, don’t you think so? 
Have you seen my ad on Adgitize? Yup, starting last night this blog is officially become advertiser on Adgitize. I registered it yesterday during my lunch break and got approval about 7 hours later. Not bad isn’t it? Considering my lunch time happens to be Adgitize’s sleeping time (if they ever sleep of course), so the approval was actually done first thing in the morning their time
Anyway, for me advertising on Adgitize is part of my experiment to determine a reasonable hosting plan for my blog. So far I’m quite satisfied with my web hosting company, with $10 hosting plan per year (recommended by them) I got 100 Mb disk space and 4 Gb monthly bandwidth. It’s cheap, but the fact is I never fully utilize my bandwidth, I only use nearly a quarter of it. See the picture here, it shows my bandwidth usage up to the first week of February which only 6% of the quota. So I thought maybe this current plan is too high for a blog (at least mine) so I can downgrade my plan later?
Let’s see what happens after I become an advertiser, I expect my traffic will jump as well as the bandwidth usage! If after advertising the usage is still less than half of the quota, I will downgrade it. My hosting plan is due on May so there’s time to decide
The missed schedule errors I got with WordPress 2.9 are already fixed! After skimming through all suggested solutions in the forum, finally I found an easy way to fix the bugs.
I’m still new with WordPress and not very familiar with their codes, except for the CSS file as I often tweaking my theme. So I’m glad that I didn’t have to go through troubles to fix the bugs. All I had to do was upload the patched files for WP 2.9 (it’s in zip format) to my root directory then unzip it. It will copy three files to wp-includes folder. That’s it! All my scheduled posts (including the missed one) are now published!
Missed schedule posts fixed!
Lessons learned: No need to rush to upgrade. Wait for a few weeks then check the forum whether the new update has bugs or not. It’s still ok to upgrade even if it has bugs (there’s always bugs I think) as long as they already have the solution to fix them.
I also took time to test the built-in image editor, which I think it is useful enough! The coolest feature is now I can set which part of the image I want to show using the editor!
For example, if I want to show the “published” part of the above image, I can reopen the image from the gallery and crop it. Voila here’s the result!
Missed schedule posts now published!
The original file is still intact, so I can still restore its original size. If you click on the second image, it will open the same image as the first one. A very cool feature! WordPress Rocks! Though I won’t use it too often since I hardly upload images to my WP. I prefer to use a third party to host my images so I can save my bandwidth and disc space.
I upgraded to WP 2.9 last week and look what I got, a missed schedule post 
. It was my New Year’s greeting and supposed to be published on Jan 01, 2010 at 1:15 pm Indonesian Time! This never happened before, until I upgraded to WP 2.9 off course! I shouldn’t be surprised though as I mentioned in my previous post that they found potential bugs in WP 2.9 that caused scheduled posts and pingbacks not being processed correctly. I guess I got the bugs !
For your information, most of my posts here, as well as on my boy’s blog, were scheduled posts! I set their time to match with Adgitize hour so I won’t have double post on one day or no post at all. With this strategy I can be sure that I won’t miss my Adgitize article point. So scheduled posts are important to me.
When I google “missed schedule wordpress 2.9″ I found many WP users complained about this problem. Luckily I also found some solutions there and I decided to try one of them that was easy enough for me to do. Let’s see if the patch works!
Just upgraded to WP 2.9, as always, I was a bit late to upgrade my WP. This time was better though, just ten days after the released date (December 19th). Now the coolest new features of this version (according to WP Blog) are:
- Global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying “are you sure” messages we used to have on every delete.
- Built-in image editor allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images to show them who’s boss. This is the first wave of our many planned media-handling improvements.
- Batch plugin update and compatibility checking, which means you can update 10 plugins at once, versus having to do multiple clicks for each one, and we’re using the new compatibility data from the plugins directory to give you a better idea of whether your plugins are compatible with new releases of WordPress. This should take the fear and hassle out of upgrading.
- Easier video embeds that allow you to just paste a URL on its own line and have it magically turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv (and more in the next release).
Are they really cool or what! I haven’t tried any of those yet though! Soon I will, especially the image editing tools… However, just four days after the released date they found a new bug!
Unfortunately, the recent 2.9 release triggered a bug in certain versions of PHP’s curl extension. With these versions of curl, scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly. To fix this problem as well as a handful of other, lesser issues, we are quickly releasing 2.9.1, the first maintenance release of the 2.9 line.
So be ready for another upgrade. Aiyayaa… so many update!
