The jZone

I’ve noticed recently that the blog had been attacked a couple of times, with hackers being able to gain administrative access to WordPress.

Fortunately, they didn’t do any harm other than posting or adding links. I suspect that the attacks were purely automated attacks exploiting known vulnerabilities. Things could have been a lot more unpleasant.

Anyway, as a result, I decided it was about time that I updated the blog to the latest version for the security fixes it now has in place to guard against these attacks. Hopefully this will keep the blog safe for a little longer.

All I need to do now is convert my old theme…the default WordPress theme looks so… default.

My Drupal installation was playing up, and its too memory intensive on the host I run it on, so I thought I’d give Wordpress another try.

So, I’m just in the process of converting the site, which has been made significantly easier using the post I found on vrypan.net.

Now all I’ve got to figure out is how to rebuild my previous style with the minimum of effort, and work out what to do with posts that contain Textile-like mark-up.

One thing I have immediately noticed is how much more responsive the site now appears to be.