While I was away over the weekend, it appears that a large number of bloggers who use WordPress have been hacked and a lot of damage has been done.  It seems this problem has shown up for a large number of people, including some very high profile bloggers.  Among them was Robert Scoble, whose blog was among those websites which were hacked.   Damages on Scoble’s site included porn information being placed in old posts, 2 entire months of content being deleted, and more.  Of course the porn then led to his blog being completely banned from Google!   Scoble is not the only one having these problems, however, and even lesser known bloggers have been attacked.  You can read more in this WordPress support forum thread.

If you are wondering what the one thing all of these WordPress sites have in common, the problem is they were all using old versions of WordPress.   As someone that owns and operates well over 100 WordPress installations, I certainly understand the pain it can be to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress every time a new release happens, but I hope this goes to show why it is so important to take the time to upgrade all of your WordPress installations be using the most recent version of WordPress.

I’m a little later with this post than I meant to be, but in case any of you missed it, I wanted to take a minute and let our readers know about a new WordPress site that recently launched called WordPress Tavern. 

Some of our readers may remember a few months ago when I offered up the domains WPTavern.com and WordPressTavern.com to a good home. Well, I’m thrilled to say I found a wonderful home for them with my friend Jeff Chandler.   Jeff is the author of Jeffro2pt0.com and the WordPress Weekly podcast, but you may have also seen him publishing guest posts here on WordPress Hacks, or as a frequent poster over at Weblog Tools Collection, at Performancing, and I believe also at BloggingTips.com.  

Through Jeff’s work on these reputable sites, Jeff has developed a strong reputation in the WordPress community and now has finally decided to launch his own website, WordPress Tavern.   This new site has been up for a few weeks now and he already has a good amount of unique content built up and a pretty active forum! 

If you enjoy reading about WordPress (I assume most of you do since you subscribe to this site?) I recommend you check out WordPress Tavern and/or subscribe to their feed.

Since I launched my blog Cats Who Code, I received many emails from my readers, mostly asking WordPress related questions. Due to the fact that a private reply will never help someone else, I came across the idea of creating a WordPress related blog, focused of short, precise and concise recipes.

So, I’m very happy to introduce you WpRecipes. On this new blog, you’ll not find any long and detailed tutorials like the ones I write for WordPress Hacks, but only short and “straight to the essential” recipes.

For example, I’ll show you how to redirect WordPress rss feeds to Feedburner with .htaccess, how to restrict page view to authenticated users only or how to get rid of curly quotes on your WordPress blog.

Don’t hesitate to subscribe to WpRecipes rss feed or save the blog to Delicious! And if you have any WordPress related questions, feel free to ask and I’ll se what I can do to help you.

As I mentioned in a post written last month, I wanted to collect everyones WordPress resources so I could throw together a WordPress resources page. After all, WordPress is community-based and it seemed like a good way to support WordPress users. I am proud to say that I was able to combine my favorite WordPress sites with yours to create a WordPress resources page here at Hack WordPress, which I hope people will find useful.

If you are wondering why a couple sites are left off the list, it is probably for one of two reasons. The first is that I don’t know about it and the second is because I had to leave off (for the most part) any submitted blogs that occasionally write about WordPress (such as a category or whatever). This is because the collection of WordPress resources is already very large and these types of lists can get out of hand if you don’t draw the line somewhere.

As with my WordPress theme galleries and other lists I maintain here, my ultimate goal is to keep this page useful. As a result, I will make every attempt to keep this page updated over time. You can help by letting us know if you find any invalid links or you would like to see something added.

As for the list itself, here is what I’ve collected so far: