Comments for WordCamp Boston

Comment on Top 5 WordPress Security Tips Done In Under 5 Minutes by Brad

Brad — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:05:01 +0000

@Natick setup a CAPTCHA on your signup process. There are a number of plugins that can do this. Also the Bad Behavior plugin is good at stopping bots from even hitting your site

Comment on Top 5 WordPress Security Tips Done In Under 5 Minutes by Natick

Natick — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:08:27 +0000

What’s the best way to stop automated bot submissions and registrations?

Comment on Behind the Scenes – AV at WCBos by Jared

Jared — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:21:16 +0000

Your hard work is appreciated
and lol@ your cat sitting there with you.

Comment on WordCamp Boston Charity Report by amanda

amanda — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:40:05 +0000

I really don’t think people will feel that way. There are some offline donations that aren’t counted in that number, a limitation of the plugin. Additionally, WordCamp Boston is donating an additional $2500 (our unspent income) as well, bringing the total donation to almost $10000. We can’t really force people to contribute, all we can do is ask and encourage, and we are thrilled with the results of the program. After all, the potential had been zero in contributions, and it went to almost $10000 from attendees and sponsoring companies in a week. We hope everyone is just as proud as we are, and hopefully, the community will sustain donations ongoing through WPCares.org.

Comment on Program by Kurt Eng

Kurt Eng — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:05:42 +0000

I will have an update on this situation really soon. Please stay tuned!

Comment on Program by James Jones

James Jones — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:40:46 +0000

Why is Microsoft taking so long with the videos we recorded on their equipment?

Comment on Top 5 WordPress Security Tips Done In Under 5 Minutes by Wednesday Wordpress Round Up « Alicia Wilkerson

Wednesday Wordpress Round Up « Alicia Wilkerson — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:54:55 +0000

[...] shares with us a link which shares a previous Wordcamp article on Wordpress Security. Also shared there is another link [...]

Comment on Top 5 WordPress Security Tips Done In Under 5 Minutes by WordPress Tutorials

WordPress Tutorials — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:06:44 +0000

Top 5 WordPress Security Tips Done In Under 5 Minutes…

These are the easiest security tips that you could implement on any WordPress website…….

Comment on WordCamp Boston Charity Report by jw

jw — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:17:27 +0000

“At the end of the day, WordCamp Boston raised about $6200 in funds for Red Cross. ”

In the top right of the pages I have visited, it states “$4713.5 / $5000 raised.” So, when people read this article, they may feel good that you surpassed your goal by 24% but if they see the other pages in this site, they might think “why did they stop when they only had 5.73% remaining?

Comment on Top 5 WordPress Security Tips Done In Under 5 Minutes by Brad

Brad — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:57:24 +0000

@Bina Good question and this was actually brought up in my Security Presentation. WordPress MU treats the admin account differently because it’s really a WPMU site admin account. Here is a forum thread that explains how to change the admin username in WPMU, but be careful because it requires direct DB record updates:

http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13444