Wordpress Events Registration with PayPal IPN

Attention: If you haven’t noticed, the Wordpress plugin “Events Registration with PayPal IPN” is no longer available for download on Wordpress.org. We found some serious security issues within the plugin (mostly deprecated Wordpress database functions) so we decided it best to go ahead and remove the plugin until security was improved. After a major overhaul of the back-end code we... [Read more]

Most Used and Abused Web Design Trends of All Time

I found the following  post from Web design Ledger to be pretty funny. I have often found my self using reflective text or mirrored objects, flourishes, and using a lot of stock images in a few projects. I even found myself wondering how I could add a picture of a cup of coffee or a background of a desk into some of my personal designs. Throw in some reflective coffee cups on a desktop and you’ve... [Read more]

Wordpress/Website Security Exploits

I have recently seen several websites that I maintain, as well as several that I don’t maintain, hacked by some kind of bot net. It has been a really good learning experience to say the least. Most of the hacked websites were running Wordpress, so my first thought that it was some kind of security exploit in Wordpress. Then I was asked to investigate of a few static HTML or PHP driven websites... [Read more]