RIP Alex Mills

I have been using the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved WordPress plugin by Alex Mills for several years. Today I wanted to look up something on the plugin's homepage and was wondering why there are so many spam comments. Turned out that Alex passed away 4 years ago. He died of Leukemia. I didn't know Alex but it's … Continue reading RIP Alex Mills

When the WordPress ActivtyPub plugin does not work for your site

I added the ActivityPub plugin to my WordPress installation a while ago and was wondering why it didn't seem to work. Today I discovered an ActivtyPub warning on the Site Health Status page saying ... Your WebFinger endpoint https://blog.dummzeuch.de/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:dummzeuch@blog.dummzeuch.de does not return valid JSON for application/jrd+json. ... that suspiciously sounded like it might be the … Continue reading When the WordPress ActivtyPub plugin does not work for your site

How secure is your WordPress installation?

I have been using WordPress for this blog for several years and always thought my setup was reasonably secure. Turns out that there is something called the WordPress REST API which allows to get quite a lot information about the installation without any security at all. E.g. https://blog.dummzeuch.de/wp-json/wp/v2/users used to show a list of all … Continue reading How secure is your WordPress installation?

download.dummzeuch.de now also supports https

From now on, all *.dummzeuch.de subdomains are available via https. In particular that means download.dummzeuch.de (which contains all GExperts downloads) and my old home page www.dummzeuch.de. I have changed the download links for the two latests GExperts releases. I will probably not bother with the older ones.