I'm in the process of trying to remove privacy-compromising plugins from
the web server. Using ghostery, I can see that google analytics is
being included on wp pageloads. Any this is not in the template files,
and I'm not sure which plugin is responsible for the google analytics
remote include. Any ideas?
Since analytics are sometimes desirable, I've installed an instance of
piwik on the server at https://sudoroom.org/piwik/
Hey, I just wanted to bring this to your collective attention:
The calendar plugin we have on the wordpress site currently is pretty
terrible. It's the one we have on the Occupy Oakland site, and it
brought the site to a grinding halt. This had to do with the way the
plugin generated its MySQL queries, which was pretty labyrinthine. If
my memory serves me, Mark Burdett rewrote part of the plugin to optimize
indices on the table storing events. We might want to have a look at
that before this becomes a problem.
I've also installed varnish on the server, and I'll be looking into a
good way to cache these pages and serve them from memory so we don't
have Apache/PHP hitting the disk and generating the page every time.
I've done something similar for other wordpress installs, including ones
being actively DDOSed, and it helped enormously.
Bill
I just ran an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade on the server,
seeing 24 of 28 updates were security-related. Initramfs was updated
and a new kernel image / headers were installed. I doubt this will
affect anything negatively, as I think everything installed is through
the package manager and we don't have anything we compiled against the
old headers.
Bill
OK i'd like to start making some changes to get this resolved. or else our
Wiki will be eaten alive.
Can someone contact KingJacob(a)gmail.com who knows him and have
him approve the SSL authentication request.
I believe SSL will slow down the amount of spam we're getting.
I'd like to install CheckUser so we can pull the IP Addresses of the spam
accounts and possibly start blocking requests from those IPs.
Objections? Suggestions?
I'm totally open!
-Wolfy
