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After much searching across the webosphere, I decided very few people have shared how to integrate sIFR with dropdown menus.

I found one example, but his solution did not work for me.

Taking his cue, however, I did implement SuperFish as a starting point.

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Possibly thousands of bloggers were thrown into a panic by being locked out of their own blogs the last couple of days. The popular “Bad Behavior” plug-in started banning nearly all IP’s and in many cases locking individual users out of their own blogs.

A friend could not even access his wp-admin page, because of the glitch in the plug-in!

To the Bad Behavior author’s credit, he did issue a patched upgrade rather quickly. This is quite disturbing, however.

We noticed that this blog did not block us out of the main content or the admin, but it did prohibit MarsEdit from posting or retrieving posts. Very interesting. I’m not sure why the plug-in would only block certain types of access coming from the same IP. Because it was through MarsEdit, we did not see the standard Bad Behavior message. This makes it even more disturbing as we would have had no idea what was causing this failure in our offline blog editor.

WebGeek posts on “Bad Behavior Behaving Badly“:

This was no minor glitch, and something like this could have serious consequences for websites and businesses. If left unattended in this state for a long time, a site could lose valuable search engine rankings, after the spiders of the Big 3 (Google, Yahoo, and MSN) find that they are locked out repeatedly with 403 errors. It’s most likely that these losses would be temporary, but there’s no guarantee, and by that point the damage is done.

And the explanation comes from the Bad Behavior blog:

Update: Some people have asked for more details on what exactly happened. In brief, yesterday I moved all of my sites to a new dedicated server. In the process, I decommissioned an old blacklist I was running which I thought wasn’t being used, not realizing that Bad Behavior was still set to use it. Shortly afterward, I found myself locked out of my own blog, just as you all did. So therefore, this release.

WebGeek has recommended the removal of Bad Behavior from all blogs until stability can be assured. We agree, but suggest if you want to keep the updated version of Bad Behavior going on personal blogs you monitor closely, it will help to see if this plug-in has truly stabilized.

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If you haven’t upgraded to the new WordPress 2.2 yet, you can now do it through Fantastico. Login to your cpanel (yourdomain/cpanel) and you can upgrade in just a couple of quick clicks.

As always, be sure to backup your database prior to upgrading and thoroughly test your blog after the upgrade has been completed!

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This is a safe and recommended upgrade for WordPress via Fantastico. This blog was upgraded without issue in a few seconds via Fantastico in cPanel.

Enjoy!

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The WordPress 2.11 update is now available through Fantastico.

As always, please be careful when upgrading, especially if you have heavily modified your WordPress install.

If you are updating from 2.1, this should be a problem-free upgrade. This blog was updated via Fantastico in just a few seconds.

UPDATE: Do not upgrade to this version of WordPress. There was a security breach and it could be a faulty build. Though it is unlikely that Fantasico installs of WordPress are affected, it is better to be on the safe side and not upgrade yet.

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