StraTechnologist

Hey Webmaster,
when you create a new website, blog or whatever, you should be sure that the RSS / Atom links are working properly.

Wordpress, for instance, has several types of syndication links enabled by default, are you sure you want to keep all of them? Do you usually use an external service like https://www.feedburner.com/ to serve your feeds? Did you remember to redirect all feeds to it?

I want to keep track of this recently found issue: the Popularity-Contest Wordpress plugin 1.2b plug-in for Wordpress gets in conflict with phpAdsNew (PAN) when in the same page.

It seems like PAN opens a persistend DB connection and doesn’t close it. This affects the subsequent SQL queries of Popularity rendering the latter useless since many DB connection errors are reported.

I wrote two support requests:

PAN support forum
Wordpress support forum

and no answers so far.

The Wordpress Contact Form plug-in is something you can’t live without. It allows the administrator, you, to receive emails from users and visitors. The problem is that I keep on receiving spam through that form and, I am afraid, there could be a security hole allowing spammers to send unsolicited emails through it.

Is there a way to fix this useful plugin or does exist an alternative one?