Vladimir Smitka

Akismet is fine, but I decided to write a simple WordPress comments antispam for research resons. There are some proven methods to fight against spammy comments: honeypot field “nick”, it is hidden by CSS – only bots will fill it block comments with BB code [url=…] HTTPBL (DNSBL) from http://www.projecthoneypot.org – you need API key Block comment…

You can find few useful tiny mu-plugins in my example Nginx configuration for WP. Must-use plugins (a.k.a. mu-plugins) are plugins installed in a special directory inside the content folder and which are automatically enabled on all sites in the installation. Must-use plugins do not show in the default list of plugins on the Plugins page of wp-admin…

There is a DoS vulnerability in all WP installations. It is hidden in the load-scripts.php and load-styles.php files. Their purpose is to combine scripts and styles in the administration to load the admin faster. You can ask them to combine a huge amount of files, the result will be a huge load and it may…

VPN is very important part of security. I prepared a set of script, so it is easy to run your own VPN server on VPS. The scripts are available in my Cloud Tunnels respository. There are 3 types of technologies: IKEv2 VPN with StrongSwan and Let’s Encrypt certificate (the best option) L2TP VPN server with…

I prepared a list of useful .htaccess examples for my WordCamp Brno talk (2017-10-21): This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters Show hidden characters…

Statistics from the Czech WordPress Environment 2017-08: Data from the original research.

Tiny FTP server tailored for network administrators – set credentials, path and go. Command line attributes: -u user (user) login name -p password (password) login pass -s (start) autostart -d (daemon) autostart and minimize path directory with files Example: mikroftp.exe -u user -p pass -d d:\ftp Download (80kB)