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Now that google’s Buzz is really making a Buzz in the internet world, everyone with a blog or website might be trying to figure out how to integrate it with their website. Now here I am going to explain how to integrate it to your wordpress blog.

The easiest way for doing it is Use Plugins. I will list a few plugin which will do the integration for you.

Google Buzz Button

This Google Buzz Button plugin that allows you to add a “Buzz This” button to each of your WordPress posts. this may also look familiar because lots of famous techie websites use this.

How to:

1. Download Google Buzz Button Wordpress Plugin
2. Upload in wp-content/plugins folder on your server
3. Activate the plugin from Plugin Dashboard
4. Done! A new Google Buzz Button will start appearing after the post content on each single page. You can customize the location of Buzz Button.

WP Google-buzz

Another button plugin option is WP Google-buzz. This plugin has some more options compared to the previous one.

Features:

1. Show Google-buzz button before/after post content.
2. Manual insertion of code: Use this: <?php if(function_exists(‘add_wp_google_buzz’)) { add_wp_google_buzz(); } ?>
3. 10 different beautiful image options

WPBuzzer

This plugin also has got lots of options by which we can customize the look and feel.  Download WPBuzzer v0.5 from here.

Light Social

The Light Social plugin takes a slightly different approach to the Google Buzz button. Light Social is a plugin that inserts a set of social share links at the bottom of each of your WordPress posts.

Buzz In Your Sidebar

Google Buzz ER Plugin allows you to use the google Buzz features to display your public Buzz content. Just enter in your username and define how many Buzz entries you want to display and drag the widget to your designated choice in your blog.

Here I am going to explain how I did it. I think it will be useful to you .

First Goto you current host and take a SQL Back up and download it to your computer from the option which is given on the Admin page of your Wordpress blog. Now you have to backup your entire blog directory. For this just archive it using TAR. For moving it to your new host you may use SSH. ( will talk about it later). As of now just download the archived TAR file to your computer.

Now goto your new host. Goto PHPMyAdmin or any equivalent applications. We just have to import the database which we backed up from the old wordpress blog. In PHPMyAdmin goto import and upload the database you have. Now after the upload completes just goto your database manager and create a user and password for that user. Now add it to the newly added database( this is the database you have just finished importing using PHPMyAdmin).

PS: Take a note of the Username password and the name of the database We will be needing it.

Now You have to copy all the files from the old blog directory to your new host.For this upload the downloded TAR file from the old blog which have the entire blog directory, Now upload it to the new host. Extract it to the current directory.

If you have SSH in your new host, login to the SSH using any SSh Client and traverse to the public_html directory. Then using ftp get the TAR file from the old blog.

For getting this TAR file type

ftp <oldBlogAddress>

then type the username and the password.

After that type in mget <filename.tar> now the wait as the file is being downloaded to the new host from the old host. Then type

tar -xvvf <filename.tar> for uncompressing the tar file. Now the blog directory structure is recreated Now you can log out from the SSH.

Now edit the wp-config.php file in the root directory of your blog. in the username field type in the username you created for the database, which you might have noted if you are following my steps exactly as I said. Like this type in the new password and database by replacing the old ones.

Now your Blog in your new Host should work fine.

PS: If your web blog address is also changed(Like Domain Name Change) try changing “siteurl” and “home” accordingly in the database table “wp_options” (through phpMyAdmin or similar).

PS: Even if you have done everything as I said, you may still encounter problems. So as a Last resort try copying the .htaccess from the root of the old host to the root of the new host.

Reference: [WordPress Codex]

A group calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army temporarily took down the microblogging service Twitter.
The users who visited twitter got redirecte o the attackers website where it displayed “This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army.”

Twitter admitted that “its Domain Name Systems’ records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed. The site says it will update with more details once we’ve investigated more fully.”

As per google wave blog, the top most feature request is more invitations. Everyone s eager to try it out. So now google is doing something about it. More and more people are getting invited to google wave.

Google says,

We’ve been working to increase the capacity of our preview setup and have sent invitations to everyone who requested an invite through our online form. If you’d like to request an invitation, you can still sign up here.

Also more invitations are added to the existing users, so that they too can invite their friends. Google wave here says something about the number 1 Million, and that means atleast for me, it is going to reach 1 Million users for Wave. The headline of th blog post is “A million stamps licked … and counting”. So it is going to reach 1 Million.

Also if any one you need Google wave invites, Contact Me. I can give you as of now..

Google strikes again. Now this time with a real time search feature. And the good thing is, this is available for mobiles also.

This real time search made a huge wave in the internet world, when twitter announced it. And from that day everyone just love it.

Google blog post regarding the same says,

First, we’re introducing new features that bring your search results to life with a dynamic stream of real-time content from across the web. Now, immediately after conducting a search, you can see live updates from people on popular sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, as well as headlines from news and blog posts published just seconds before. When they are relevant, we’ll rank these latest results to show the freshest information right on the search results page.

This is how it looks,

Here is a video from the google.

This real-time search updates as stuff is happening around the Web — for example, live tweets, Yahoo Answers, news articles and Web pages now stream in on the actual result pages for your query.

Google says the features aren’t available to everyone yet, but will be within the next few days.

Its been reported that, Hackers have developed a distributed Wordpress admin account cracking scheme that poses a severe risk for the security of blogs whose owners select insecure passwords.

What it does is,

There are some PHP scripts which run on some servers which can be virtual. These php scripts are programmed in a way to do BruteForce or Dictionary Attacks on the wordpress blogs that they select.

ISC security watcher Bojan Zdrnja wrote,

“While this particular version is relatively simple, the power behind the script and the MySQL database allows the attacker to distribute the attacks not only by sites, but also by passwords tried as well.

Finally, if you are using Wordpress (or any other blog tool), be sure that access to the admin interface is as limited as possible. This means choosing strong passwords, changing the admin username if possible and limiting access by IP addresses.

Wordpress brute force attacks have been around for quite some time already (similarly to SSH brute force attacks, for which we at SANS ISC are getting reports daily), so we can expect that the bad guys will start using such advanced techniques for attacking other services as well.”

Well so its time to change your wordpress password. I am changing mine.