Having Strange Errors Utilizing Gzip in WordPress 2.9 and 2.9.1?

For­tu­nately your not alone. A recent bug fix was just released which addresses an error which is received while updat­ing the Word­Press core, as well as Word­Press plu­g­ins. This error typ­i­cally effects http.php, located at wp-includes/http.php, and looks sim­i­lar to the code listed below.

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Jan 10, 2010 | Server 2003, Web Design, Wordpress | 2 Comments »

We Hate Spam, So Here’s A Fresh List of Spam Bots For Your Blocking Pleasure...

We main­tain a vari­ety of web­sites, blogs, con­tent por­tals, mail servers, and other online resources. We’re forced to deal with a daily task of Spam removal and pre­ven­tion. Be it spam-bots, human spam­mers, com­ment spam­mers, and on and on. The major­ity of the time its no more than a nui­sance, and a sim­ple admin­is­tra­tive task. The num­ber one goal of any admin­is­tra­tor is to pre­vent these spam­mers from ever accom­plish­ing their intended goal of com­ment hijack­ing or gain­ing some con­trol over web­site con­tent. But these days spam­mers are get­ting quite sneaky, in fact we’d even go as far as say­ing that some of them are quite good at what they do.

But since they bug us, we’re going to help you in the fight against them and their evil deeds. Below you’ll find a list of IP addresses we’ve per­son­ally com­piled. All the addresses below have recently spammed our servers, and have since been banned.

The first list is sim­ply a list of IP addresses that you can eas­ily load into you favorite anti-spam plu­gin. The sec­ond list is from a .htac­cess file we pro­vided to a client. Have fun, and happy com­put­ing.

Recently active spam­bot IP addresses...

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8.17.84.65
58.137.132.100
63.171.182.6
63.227.242.5
63.253.158.220
67.61.143.217
67.163.0.220
67.181.166.121
78.26.187.114
78.152.106.43
80.38.103.231
83.69.209.194
83.103.113.124
85.112.166.65
88.46.239.43
93.62.4.207
93.81.251.193
110.138.31.73
115.119.35.194
119.225.109.37
120.124.176.217
130.105.36.54
131.107.33.62
144.140.46.10
158.59.200.109
159.214.87.245
161.159.4.33
161.254.6.55
170.207.128.4
174.142.166.205
180.130.166.89
188.73.138.24
189.45.59.76
189.76.222.229
190.2.14.129
194.8.74.220
194.8.75.40 - 194.8.75.163
194.183.86.25
196.211.9.210
200.181.124.57
201.67.137.247
202.108.50.75
202.229.143.64
203.63.26.200
206.123.106.141
208.88.124.83
208.91.245.90
212.113.74.186
212.131.202.194
213.230.22.142
213.130.121.51
217.6.171.194
217.72.242.60
217.196.65.115
218.126.216.117
220.116.127.192

This list can be dropped right into your .htac­cess file...

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order allow,deny
deny from 8.17.84.65
deny from 58.137.132.100
deny from 63.171.182.6
deny from 63.227.242.5
deny from 63.253.158.220
deny from 67.61.143.217
deny from 67.163.0.220
deny from 67.181.166.121
deny from 78.26.187.114
deny from 78.152.106.43
deny from 80.38.103.231
deny from 83.69.209.194
deny from 83.103.113.124
deny from 85.112.166.65
deny from 88.46.239.43
deny from 93.62.4.207
deny from 93.81.251.193
deny from 110.138.31.73
deny from 115.119.35.194
deny from 119.225.109.37
deny from 120.124.176.217
deny from 130.105.36.54
deny from 131.107.33.62
deny from 144.140.46.10
deny from 158.59.200.109
deny from 159.214.87.245
deny from 161.159.4.33
deny from 161.254.6.55
deny from 170.207.128.4
deny from 174.142.166.205
deny from 180.130.166.89
deny from 188.73.138.24
deny from 189.45.59.76
deny from 189.76.222.229
deny from 190.2.14.129
deny from 194.8.74.220
deny from 194.8.75.40 - 194.8.75.163
deny from 194.183.86.25
deny from 196.211.9.210
deny from 200.181.124.57
deny from 201.67.137.247
deny from 202.108.50.75
deny from 202.229.143.64
deny from 203.63.26.200
deny from 206.123.106.141
deny from 208.88.124.83
deny from 208.91.245.90
deny from 212.113.74.186
deny from 212.131.202.194
deny from 213.230.22.142
deny from 213.130.121.51
deny from 217.6.171.194
deny from 217.72.242.60
deny from 217.196.65.115
deny from 218.126.216.117
deny from 220.116.127.192
allow from all

Jan 10, 2010 | Magento, Server 2003, Web Browsers, Web Design, Wordpress | Leave A Comment »

Force Nextgen Gallery To Crop Thumbnails From The Top Of The Image... **Updated**

In our orig­i­nal post, we sim­ply deleted a line to change the start­ing posi­tion of NextGEN’s thumb­nail crop. With the most recent ver­sion of NextGEN Gallery,1.4.3 as of this post­ings date, this was gen­er­at­ing errors. So we dug around in the code a bit, and here’s our fix.

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Dec 18, 2009 | Wordpress | 2 Comments »

Utilizing GZip with WordPress, Finally a Fast Blog...

The first half of this arti­cle will be taken directly from our pre­vi­ous post, as the need for a sin­gle default php.ini is nec­es­sary to con­fig­ure gzip. If read­ing our Magento post is what brought you to the site, and you’ve already con­fig­ured your default php.ini, than skip to the .htac­cess por­tion of the post. Oth­er­wise, were off...

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Nov 30, 2009 | Magento, Web Design, Wordpress | Leave A Comment »

The Correct Way To Set Up gzip with Magento

We wrote this arti­cle in response to post­ings offer­ing advice to users of Magento, an open source ecom­merce sys­tem. The advice is being given with good inten­tions, and the intent is only to assist their fel­low Magento users. But the advice being give may actu­ally have the poten­tial cause harm to the users site, or at the least a good deal of down time. The advice being offered is to help speed up Magento by enabling a server side caching sys­tem called gzip. What peo­ple don’t real­ize is that their being told to enable two sep­a­rate caching sys­tems. These two sys­tems tend not to play well together, and could cause harm to your install. While most peo­ple see pos­i­tive results, there are a rare few see­ing server side errors, data­base errors, and are stumped as to why.

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Nov 30, 2009 | Magento, Server 2003, Wordpress | 1 Comment »

How Do I Specify a Class For IMG Inserted With Visual Editor...

The fol­low­ing is in response to a ques­tion on WordPress.org. We’ve become extremely pro­fi­cient with word­press in the past few years, and we’re always com­ing up with inno­v­a­tive ways of using this amaz­ing prod­uct. We try to post most all our fixes, hacks, and tricks, in the hopes that it will prove use­ful to some­one. Hope­fully this will be no different.

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Aug 24, 2009 | Web Browsers, Web Design, Wordpress | Leave A Comment »

WordPress, Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted

Dur­ing a rou­tine update to a Word­Press site we received the fol­low­ing error: Fatal error: Allowed mem­ory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allo­cate 7680 bytes) in /home/website/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1342 Scary stuff, but no need to panic. Chances are your Word­Press install is quite well used with lots pages, posts, and plu­g­ins. First off, don’t start dis­abling plu­g­ins and hack­ing code. Fol­low these sim­ple steps and you’ll be updated in no time.

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Aug 03, 2009 | Wordpress | 4 Comments »

My WordPress Blog is Sending Mail With My Webhosts Address

Here’s our solu­tion. Be sure your work­ing with the most up to date file. Local copies can become out­dated with online updates. Edit the fol­low­ing file: wordpress-root-directory/wp-includes/class-phpmailer.php

On line 75 (valid on Word­Press 2.7.1 - 2.8.7) and edit, “root@localhost.com” to the address you’de like to appear in admin­is­tra­tive emails, ie. user@yourdomain.com. You’ll also want to change your From­Name, on line 81, and your email address on line 88. Sim­ply fill the empty quotes.

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  /**
   * Sets the From email address for the message.
   * @var string
   */
  var $From              = 'root@localhost';
 
  /**
   * Sets the From name of the message.
   * @var string
   */
  var $FromName          = 'Root User';
 
  /**
   * Sets the Sender email (Return-Path) of the message.  If not empty,
   * will be sent via -f to sendmail or as 'MAIL FROM' in smtp mode.
   * @var string
   */
  var $Sender            = '';

And that’s it. Your sever will now send admin­is­tra­tive Emails from your cho­sen name, and address. Let us know if this was helpful.

May 23, 2009 | Wordpress | 2 Comments »

How I Made Our Background Image....

The image you see in the back­ground is actu­ally 8 images all pieced together to make my vir­tual desk­top. I was hav­ing an inspi­ra­tional day and decided I would take pic­tures of every­thing on my desk. I then took those images, with the help of Pho­to­shop CS2, and com­bined them into the image you now see. It’s amaz­ing what you can do when you’re inspired.

Feb 15, 2007 | Web Design, Wordpress | Leave A Comment »