{"id":260,"date":"2013-07-17T16:10:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T21:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/?p=260"},"modified":"2013-07-17T16:10:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T21:10:41","slug":"hackers-promote-or-provoke-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/2013\/07\/17\/hackers-promote-or-provoke-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers promote (or provoke) changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This site has basically looked the same for the past 6 years since back when I mentioned some <a title=\"July 18th 2007\" href=\"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/2007\/07\/18\/minor-cosmetic-changes\/\">minor cosmetic changes<\/a> that included displaying the post categories as icons.<\/p>\n<p>The theme I chose at that time has not been updated in years and apparently the script kiddies found an exploit and managed to screw up the look of the site. I fixed the look easily enough but decided I should go with a more modern theme that will actually be patched\/updated as idle hands find their way into the software.<\/p>\n<p>To replace it I chose the most current and most ubiquitous &#8220;twentytwelve&#8221; theme, created a child theme to protect my customizations, and then proceeded to make a few minor modifications mostly removing all of the unnecessary white space. It looked Ok but lacked that personal touch. It still looked like the default vanilla WP theme. I needed my icons back!<\/p>\n<p>There are a few WP plug-ins that do something similar to what I manually coded but they are either not working or old enough that I have to figure they&#8217;re adding yet another porthole that someone will try to reach through. So I re-wrote my version. It is now all just two lines of code (plus styling) but alas I had to update one of the vanilla theme files. This means that I&#8217;ll be too lazy to re-apply my changes when the theme is updated and I&#8217;ll eventually be hacked. However&#8230; if the theme lasts 6 years again I&#8217;ll be overdue for a refresh anyway and I can live with that. Maybe I&#8217;ll even get around to updating those icons that I promised I would change?<\/p>\n<p>Nah. =]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers messed up the look of the site so after 6 years it was time to refresh the look&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}