WordPress 2.8.4 Security Issued Fixed

There has been an outbreak on WordPress community throught the weekend… Many wordpress blogs were hacked by a worm due to a security loophole.

Upgrade WordPress to 2.8.4 NOW

What is the security issue? Frankly, I do not know and I could not bother to find out too… as I could not understand it anyway. As a user, I have just completed upgrading my wordpress to 2.8.4… just to make sure I can now sleep with peace at night… ;-)

To know more about the WordPress loophole, check out the following post:

• Old WordPress Versions Under Attack
• How to Keep WordPress Secure

Setup WordPress for Both English & Chinese Languages

1. Open phpMyAdmin in CPanel

In order to type chinese on your blog, you will need to change some settings inside the SQL database. Firstly, you will need to login to your CPanel, then open phpMyAdmin as followed:

phpMyAdmin in CPanel

2. Select Database & Table of Your Blog

After launching the phpMyAdmin screen, you will need to select the database of your blog on the pull down menu. Once you have selected the database, you will be able to see all the existing tables of the database showing right below the pull down menu.

Select Database & Table in phpMyAdmin

3. Set Collation to utf8_unicode_ci

Click on the database table, you will see the table structure appearing on the right hand side of the screen. In order to store chinese in the database, you need to change the collation setting from latin1_swedish_ci to utf8_unicode_ci.

To change the collation setting, click on the pencil button and you will be a pop up window appearing. Scroll on the pull down menu to select utf8_unicode_ci and save the setting.

You need to go through this steps for all the fields that has existing setting of latin1_swedish_ci. You also need to repeat this step for all tables in the database as well.

Set utf8_unicode_ci in phpMyAdmin

You are Done… Good Luck to You!

After completing the above mentioned steps, you should be able to type and store chinese text (中文） like I do. I suppose you should be able to do this for all other asian language as well. But I have never tried that. Maybe you can share with me if you do have some success on that.

All the best and enjoy blogging in your asian language…

KokPinLab now Upgraded to WordPress 2.8

After a few hours of hard work, I have finally upgraded my blog to wordpress 2.8.

I was running on wordpress 2.5 for the last one year. I was hesitated to upgrade because my older theme does not work with wordpress 2.8.

Finally, I decided to spend few hours today to do something about it. I have heard lots of new features on new wordpress and I really do not want to miss that.

I re-edited the images, re-configured the theme files and now, KokPinLab.com has Gone LIVE!!! This is just a new little milestone for myself.