To activate a GodMode folder, create a new folder somewhere and rename it to this string:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

This hack appears to work on Vista x86 but not x64.

Dynamically generated tags – Very basic regex filters can be defeated if you place a dynamic class in front of your tracking pixels:

<img class="92934abc123" src="yourimg" />

Chance are the autoblogger won’t bother to sort out all the different image classes. This won’t prevent them from removing all images (or tags) though. How about some slick html then?

Set this up for RSS only:

<img src="" alt="
Your plaintext excerpt here.
">

Maybe you could add a fake ad to that:

<img src="http://ads.yourdomain.com/fakead.jpg" alt="
Your plaintext excerpt here.
">

Or fake feed flare:

<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/slashfilm?a=ynIB-icScgo:Hzwy1PtmAKc:I9og5sOYxJI" alt="
Your plaintext excerpt here.
">

Another (unproven) idea is to use Google’s newfound acceptance of cross domain canonical tags. Basically, you just throw it in there and hope Googlebot is a little relaxed as to where tags show up.

<link rel="canonical" href="http://yourdomain/thepost/" />

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Private+Browsing

 
 
Luckily, it’s a snap to view the contents with an SQLite viewer, and easy to remove too.
 
I used SQLite Manager for Firefox to view the contents of webappsstore.sqlite:

http://code.google.com/p/sqlite-manager/

 
I guess a better article might be written on the subject of why Bing has stored my actual home address in an insecure, unencrypted, non-cookie format for later retrieval…
 
 

webappsstore.sqlite MozillaZine entry:

Deleting webappsstore.sqlite will delete any data web sites have stored there. A new file will be created when it is needed.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Webappsstore.sqlite

So removing it shouldn’t be any more harmful than normal cache/cookie removal.
 
 
I’m a fan of CCleaner, but I was surprised to find that it didn’t remove this db file by default. Adding it to the list of files to manually delete is a snap:

C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxxxx.default\webappsstore.sqlite

http://www.ccleaner.com/

Now where is the option to keep sites from storing data here in the first place?

Well, it appears you can go to about:config and change dom.storage.enabled to false, but the MozillaZine for this option doesn’t detail what other effects this might have.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dom.storage.enabled

Examples:
Change published posts to drafts

UPDATE `wp_posts` SET `post_status` = 'draft' WHERE `post_status` = 'publish'

Inherit

UPDATE `wp_posts` SET `post_status` = 'draft' WHERE `post_status` = 'inherit'

Future(scheduled)

UPDATE `wp_posts` SET `post_status` = 'draft' WHERE `post_status` = 'future'

UPDATE
After setting every post to draft you may want to republish posts containing a certain term:

UPDATE `wp_posts` SET `post_status` = 'publish' WHERE `post_content` LIKE '%searchterm%'

First off, we have a bot that appears to originate from China. It seems to be scanning for random rar files such as 8.27.rar, 8.28.rar, and so on. I can only assume that its looking for a toolkit or bot package of some kind… possibly one that it can hack into and hijack for itself. Just speculation… I’m sure someone could tell me exactly what this is if they wanted…

Next we have a typical RFI scan bot digging around where it shouldn’t. This is likely the most common attack your server will experience. Cheap botherders looking for easy roots…

Another bot scanning for remote file inclusion vulnerabilities to exploit:

Here is an interesting “attack” looking for certain files used by Wordpress plugins. In this case, the person (a spammer) is looking for certain files used by CommentLuv, a plugin that allows for easy “dofollow” backlinks. There are a few bots and scripts out there that scrape search engine results looking for signs of these plugins, then the list is exported and another piece of code searches through the resulting urls to see if any of them actually have the code.

Here is another example of this type of activity from today:

Even less interesting is Bing bots constant bombardment of really ancient non existent files that have been on my site for MANY months. I don’t know where it got this list of my files to spider, but it really ought to find a better source. Even slow ass Yahoo slurp hasn’t touched these old files in forever…

Coming soon!

Now to the good stuff. It’s really an easy process, and this is just one of many ways you can do it:

Download and install Piwik to a folder outside your publicly accessible space.

Create symbolic links to each of your domains folders:

cd domain1/
ln -s ../piwik/ track
cd ../domain2/
ln -s ../piwik/ track
cd ../domain3/
ln -s ../piwik/ track

etc…

Add meta nofollow tags to the templates:

<meta NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW" />

plugins/Login/templates
plugins/CoreHome/templates

And add it to piwik/robots.txt if you want:

#Disallow everything
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Disallow: /*
Disallow: */*
Disallow: *.*
Disallow: *
Disallow: .

Next you can log in to your Piwik install from any of your domains like this:
http://domain1.com/track/

Then you can add your site and it will create tracking code for the domain your are logged in from.

You can manage and view your data for any domain from any other domain since its a single installation.

First, you want to prevent new urls from being posted. You’ll need to do a couple of theme edits.
Remove Comment Links in Wordpress:

Edit Theme > comments.php ; Remove the url form:

            <div class="form-label"><label for="url">< ?php _e('Website', 'sandbox') ?></label></div>
            <div class="form-input"><input id="url" name="url" type="text" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url ?/>" maxlength="50" tabindex="5" /></div>

Use search regex plugin to remove the link:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-regex/

To remove all commentluv links from comments:

(.*last blog post.*)

Remove all http links:

(http.*)

Remove only the link:

(<a href.*">)
(</a>)

Unlink “a class” links:

(<a class.*">(.*?)</a>)

replace with $1

Unlink “a href” links with their url target as quoted plaintext (without killing image links):

(<a \s+(?:(?:\w+\s*=\s*)(?:\w+|"[^"]*"|'[^']*'))*?\s*href\s*=\s*(?<url>\w+|"[^"]*"|'[^']*')(?:(?:\s+\w+\s*=\s*)(?:\w+|"[^"]*"|'[^']*'))*?>[^< ]+</a>)
</a>

replace with $1

Unlink everything including images:

(<a [\s]+[^>]*?href[\s]?=[\s\"']*(.*?)[\"']*.*?>([^< ]+|.*?)?<\/a>)
</a>

replace with $2

New in Version 3.1.3 (2009-06-07):

* Changed MSN Live Search to Bing
* Exclude categories also now exludes the category itself and not only the posts
* Pings now use the new WordPress HTTP API instead of Snoopy
* Fixed bug that in localized WP installations priorities could not be saved
* The sitemap cron job is now cleared after a manual rebuild or after changing the config
* Adjusted style of admin area for WP 2.8 and refreshed icons
* Disabled the “Exclude categories” feature for WP 2.5.1, since it doesn’t have the required functions yet

Like many WP users, I have Google XML Sitemaps installed to automatically generate new sitemaps and ping major search engines after every new post. I wanted to add Bing to the list so i dug around the code a bit and figured out that Bing’s sitemap ping service is almost exactly the same as MSN’s. It doesn’t take much to get Bing added to the list of search engines:

sitemap-core.php:382

	var $_usedBing = false;
	var $_bingUrl = '';
	var $_bingSuccess = false;
	var $_bingStartTime = 0;
	var $_bingEndTime = 0;
 
	function StartBingPing($url) {
		$this->_usedBing = true;
		$this->_bingUrl = $url;
		$this->_bingStartTime = $this->GetMicrotimeFloat();
 
		$this->Save();
	}
 
	function EndBingPing($success) {
		$this->_bingEndTime = $this->GetMicrotimeFloat();
		$this->_bingSuccess = $success;
 
		$this->Save();
	}
 
	function GetBingTime() {
		return round($this->_bingEndTime - $this->_bingStartTime,2);
	}

sitemap-core.php:1047

		$this->_options["sm_b_pingbing"]=true;				//Auto ping Bing

sitemap-core.php:2254

		//Ping Bing
		if($this->GetOption("b_pingbing") && !empty($pingUrl)) {
			$sPingUrl="http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=" . urlencode($pingUrl);
			$status->StartBingPing($sPingUrl);
			$pingres=$this->RemoteOpen($sPingUrl);
 
			if($pingres==NULL || $pingres===false || strpos($pingres,"Thanks for submitting your sitemap")===false) {
				$status->EndBingPing(false,$this->_lastError);
			} else {
				$status->EndBingPing(true);
			}
		}

sitemap-ui.php:650

									if($status->_usedBing) {
										if($status->_bingSuccess) {
											echo "<li>" .__("BING was <b>successfully notified</b> about changes.",'sitemap'). "</li>";
											$at = $status->GetBingTime();
											if($at>4) {
												echo "<li class=\sm_optimize\">" . str_replace("%time%",$at,__("It took %time% seconds to notify BING.com, maybe you want to disable this feature to reduce the building time.",'sitemap')) . "</li>";
											}
										} else {
											echo "<li class=\"sm_error\">" . str_replace("%s",$status->_bingUrl,__('There was a problem while notifying BING.com. View result','sitemap')) . "</li>";
										}
									}

sitemap-ui.php:767

							<li>
								<input type="checkbox" id="sm_b_pingbing" name="sm_b_pingbing" <?php echo ($this-/>sg->GetOption("b_pingbing")==true?"checked=\"checked\"":"") ?> />
								<label for="sm_b_pingbing">< ?php _e('Notify BING about updates of your Blog', 'sitemap') ?></label><br />
								<small>< ?php echo str_replace("%s",$this->sg->GetRedirectLink('sitemap-lwt'),__('No registration required, but you can join the BING Webmaster Tools to check crawling statistics.','sitemap')); ?></small>
							</li>

After you’ve modified the files, check go to your admin section > Settings > XML-Sitemap and regenerate your sitemap manually. You should see “BING was successfully notified about changes.” right under the MSN entry. Way to go!