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How to restrict access into Wordpress Dashboard via IP address

November 24th, 2009

Have you ever wonder how to restrict your Wordpress Dashboard login via IP address or IP ranges? You could possibly would like to refrain some user from accessing your Wordpress application especially WPMU where it is shared by multi users from all over the world.

Just create a .htaccess file and put it on your wp-admin folder and add below syntax as example below.

allow from “IP address or IP ranges”

The IP ranges added are the IP address that is allow to access the wp-admin folder or the Wordpress Dashboard.

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<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order deny,allow
allow from 192.168.1.0/24
allow from 192.169.1.0/24
deny from all
</LIMIT>

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Give it a try and have fun :D

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Wordpress 2.8 image upload error fix

November 17th, 2009

Ever encountered the error like below screen? Unable to create directory to your /filepath/wp-content/uploads . Is its parent directory writable by the server?

imageerror

You probably has just migrated your Wordpress from another server to an new server. Now here’s how to fix it.

Go to your Wordress Dashboard Settings -> Miscellaneous Settings

Then and change the value is there in for: Store uploads in this folder to wp-content/uploads ( default upload filepath)

Save Changes and Done. And try upload your image like you always used to. Good luck :)

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Wordpress 2.8.6 is released!!!

November 13th, 2009

2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges.  If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.

The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered by Benjamin Flesch.  The second problem, discovered by Dawid Golunski, is an issue with sanitizing uploaded file names that can be exploited in certain Apache configurations. Thanks to Benjamin and Dawid for finding and reporting these.

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/wordpress-2-8-6-security-release/

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Http error when uploading image to Wordpress media

November 6th, 2009

If you have encountered error when uploading your images to Wordpress media gallery and found the error as

HTTP ERROR

after the images was crunched 100%. Just go to wp-admin and tail (linux command) or view the last line of error_log.php if it was mentioning

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[06-Nov-2009 02:20:33] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4096 bytes
[06-Nov-2009 02:27:17] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4096 bytes

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Then request your hosting support for copy over the php.ini into your root or the directory of your wordpress and modify the memory limit to 64MB if it was 32MB.

Then go to root , and add below syntax to .htaccess.

suPHP_ConfigPath /home/username/www
Save and Done. Your images should be able to uploaded successfully.

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Youtube code and other codes disappeared when published in WPMU?

November 5th, 2009

Have you ever encountered the mysterious error where the codes you have entered in your WPMU suddenly disappeared after clicked on Publish?

Well, this is because of the security measures added in WPMU that will automatically strips off the codes that possibly carry threats such as “iframe” and “embed” and  to this multi user blogging application.

In order to bypass the restriction applied by WPMU, you can try installing a plugin specially created for WPMU users. This plugins is called Unfiltered MU and it can be downloaded from below link

» Read more: Youtube code and other codes disappeared when published in WPMU?

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How to unachieve the archieved or suspended Wordpress blog

July 9th, 2009

1. Open PhpMyAdmin database manager
2. Search for wp_blogs table and browse the table
3. Edit the selected archieved blog to unarchieve
4. Change the archieve status from 1 to 0.
5, Save and Done.

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