Note: If you actually want support on the unlimited feed, and don’t want to do any hacky tricks, go support their hard work and Purchase Woocommerce product feed manager.

I came across this info somewhat by accident today while working on an XML Feed generator for a WooCommerce installation. I’ll often review the code of a couple plugins with similar functions to what I’m developing. While looking through Woocommerce Google Feed Manager I guess I found a gremlin.

Drinking Age Gateway with JavaScript

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UPDATE 12/5/2016: If you’re going to attempt to integrate this into the WordPress platform, please consider using my WP Drinking Age Plugin

Background

So outside the normal grind I’ve been working on a website for a tequila brand. After a meeting with marketing I’d gathered it was important to add a drinking age gateway to the site. You see some type of these gateways on just about every alcohol brand’s site. I asked if they’d prefer to simply ask “Are you of Legal Drinking Age?”, and then have “Yes/No” buttons determine a user’s fate (1),(2), or if they’d rather have the user input their birthday (3). Apparently, and I’m not a business guy or a lawyer so don’t comment and argue this with me, the yes/no gateways hold slightly less legitimacy than the ones where a user inputs their birthday to enter the site .

Droplets of Honey: The Modern Honeypot Network

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Easy Setup

I’ve been meaning to play with honeypots for quite some time, and if I’d given it just a little more research, I’d have started much sooner. This is because shortly after deciding upon glastopf as the first on my list of honey pots to try out, I came across mhn, an open source project by Threat Stream.

The Modern Honeypot Network (mhn) makes not only launching honeypots insanely easy, but it serves as a nice way of monitoring multiple honeypots as well. Digital Ocean Droplets seemed like a cheap and safe way of getting started, and I quickly found this post by Lenny Zeltser which provides pretty good directions to anyone wanting to do this themselves.

OWASP WordPress Vulnerability Scanner

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WordPress makes up some large percentage of the web. As I’m writing this, web development firms all over the world are churning out WordPress sites for their clients. Some of these installs are vanilla and basic, yet some come with exceedingly complicated plugin/theme combinations. WordPress’ ease of use is a double edged sword. The positive side being a developer may complete a feature rich, member’s only website in one day. The negative being, a multitude of plugins and code snippets written by other developers are included in these projects (other wise they wouldn’t be completed within a day). A good developer will make good choices as to what plugins to use, a novice developer may not be able to tell, and things can become dangerous.

Update, Pay Attention!

Bad News

As of version 6.78 things began to change, first the developers removed the upload feature, and the wp-cli functionality. Newer versions of the plugin are really stripped down and include less functionality than 6.77 did. The new version exists on the Wordpress repository almost exclusively to upsell you to the paid version. The new plugin is still hackable, but there are more steps required than what’s described below, and like I said, it doesn’t work with wp-cli. The steps below to increase the plugin size don’t work on the new version.