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There are different approaches to doing this (adding a paypal button to your wordpress page, or any html or php website):
You can copy&paste the code you find on most pages and wonder why you get really a lot of spam emails
or you can use the “secure merchant id” code from paypal
or you can grab a plugin at wordpress.org
To explain the first (revealing code)
<form name=”_xclick” action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr” method=”post”> <input type=”hidden” name=”cmd” value=”_xclick”/> <input type=”hidden” name=”business” value=”user@spam-me-please.com”/> <input type=”hidden” name=”item_name” value=”Customer Service”/> <input type=”hidden” name=”currency_code” value=”USD”/> <input type=”hidden” name=”amount” value=”1.00″/> <input type=”image” src=”http://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donate_LG.gif” border=”0″ name=”submit” alt=”Make payments with PayPal - it’s fast, free and secure!”/> </form>
While this has its advantages: you can easily specify the parameters, it also has the problem that your email address is very likely to be scraped and spammed by bots. So next time you receive one of those fake paypal “you need to click here to reactivate your account” emails… guess why you are receiving it.
I use the second version, the paypal secured id, because I am not too keen to exposing (any) email address to spam bots. The code below will generate a paypal button with my id in it. To change that or to get your code you need to login to paypal and get it from the merchant tab. Or you can enter “paypal button” in the search field top right of the page.
2) Click on Merchant services.
3) Click on websites payment standards.
4) Click on accept contributions.
5) Click on get donation button.
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick"/> <input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="10155388"/> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donate_LG.gif" style="width: 100px; float: right;" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!"/> </form>
And now to the fun part actually: you will not be able to copy and paste the code(s) mentioned above, because wordpress will strip the input fields and nothing will display. So unless you are putting this code into your template (e.g. by including it in a separate php file), it won’t work, I believe.
You can however grab a wordpress plugin, like this paypal plugin to help you out.
Also of help – this support post at wordpress
hope this helps anyone,
best,
jez
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Cannot resolve downloads.wordpress.org ?
You are not alone!
I am running WordPress MU 2.8.4. and till today I have had no issues using the auto upgrade or auto update function of WordPress Plugins or WordPress MU Plugins until everything stopped working.
I pretty much googled for one hour and tried different solutions here and there, but nothing really worked, as the root/cause of the problem was literally at “root” level: I had to edit the /etc/hosts file on my server to reflect the correct IPs of wordpress.org
Open up the file /etc/hosts and add the following lines at the end:
You get to this file by ssh’ing into your server and typing “cd /etc/“.
On any unix server you can edit the hosts file by typing “vi hosts”
In vi, press i to insert and paste (usual command+v) the lines below.
Press ESC briefly to exit the insert-mode. Then type in the following: :wq.
The : tells vi to change into command mode, the w to write to file and the q to quit the file.
Make sure to restart the httpd service by typing service restart httpd.
Some steps may be different depending on your setup, but this should in general work!
Below the IPs and the hostnames:
72.233.56.139 wordpress.org
72.233.56.138 downloads.wordpress.org
72.233.56.139 planet.wordpress.org
74.125.47.147 blogsearch.google.com
72.233.56.139 api.wordpress.org
72.233.56.142 codex.wordpress.org
(C/P’ed from http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14891)
Of course, if the IP addresses change in future, the ones entered before will have to be changed.
This can be done by simply pinging the domains from either command line (terminal on Mac OS X or cmd on Windows), using “ping”. On Mac OS X you will want to use “ping -c 5 wordpress.org” to limit the query to five pings. If you want to stop your pinging before, just break the operation by pressing Command + C.
If you cannot use any command line tool you may want to consider using Ping.eu the cute pingu that helped me out with several network related operations in the past.
I hope this article will spare you the useless hours of Googling :)
Searched for “cannot resolve downloads.wordpress.org”
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I changed ownership (user) of the cache and uploads folder to apache by
chown apache uploads
chown apache cache
to enable apache to write to it
chmod was set to more restrictive value of 755 each instead of easily
exploitable (as it happened on solarvps and zone.net) chmod 777
chmod 755 uploads
chmod 755 cache
giving me the following structure
ls -l /wp-content/
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache psacln 60416 May 3 05:39 cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 comh4x3d psacln 30 Nov 14 03:26 index.php
drwxr-xr-x 83 comh4x3d psacln 3072 Apr 17 12:48 plugins
drwxr-xr-x 9 comh4x3d psacln 1024 Apr 17 12:37 themes
drwxr-xr-x 5 comh4x3d psacln 1024 Mar 25 07:04 upgrade
drwxr-xr-x 3 apache psacln 8192 May 3 05:38 uploads
by that wordpress can upload files to the uploads folder and files can
be created in the cache folder.
to restrict the folders even more I added a
.htaccess file with chmod 644 each
vi .htaccess
for uploads:
Deny from all
Allow from 72.249.95.104 # server IP address
Options -ExecCGI # disallow execution of below files
AddHandler cgi-scriptscript .php .pl .py .jsp .asp .htm .shtml .sh .cgi
# we dont want any dodgy pearl scripts or php to executed
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
# deny everything but the
image and text files
Allow from all
# deny
opening those files
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
similar file for the cache folder, but instead of the image and doc
files only meta and html are allowed, make sure to remove html from
execcgi line
I hope you appreciate this article,
best,
julian klewes
h4x3d.com
I could not resit NOT posting this, as someone has taken a lot of time and put a lot of effort into uploading all Simpsons episodes to date.
See below list:
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http://rapidshare.com/files/282258351/The.Simpsons.S01E13.DVDRip.XviD-by_VINCENTUOS.avi
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We are making the transition to WordPress mu. All past 1200 posts should be available, please bare the limited functions and service at this point in time.
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