Archive for the 'Wordpress' Category

Effects of being flagged as badware in Google

Posted by rob on August 27th, 2008 filed in Google, Wordpress

Just a quick note further to my post on wordpress and badware risks; the blog that this happened on had all of its PageRank withdrawn, which has just been reinstated.
This indicates to me that there is a likely PageRank penalty of 6 months from the date that a site is flagged as badware. Of course [...]

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Upgrade Wordpress or risk getting flagged as badware by Google

Posted by rob on March 1st, 2008 filed in Wordpress

From its launch, StopBadware.org has raised questions of what happens when a legitimate site gets flagged as ‘badware’. When this happens, affected websites get a warning that “This site may harm your computer”, beneath the listing in Google’s search results pages. When users click a result, they are not taken to the website, but instead [...]

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Wordpress Auto-Installer

Posted by rob on February 20th, 2008 filed in Perl, Wordpress

I’ve written a Wordpress auto-installer that takes all of the labour out of setting up a new Wordpress v2.3.3 installation if you’re running cPanel 10 on a Linux server. All you have to do is:

Install the required Perl modules (see below)
Place the folder ‘wordpress’ in the same folder as the script
Run the script via the [...]

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