The blogging software I’ve been using for the last couple of years, doesn’t seem to be under development anymore, with the last update being pushed out back in April 2008. The problem is, that without further develpment, any security holes that are discovered won’t get fixed, leaving my website open to attack (again!). And this software does have a couple that are like gaping rust holes in the side of an oil tanker.

There are coders on the support forum that are able to help users to fix issues, but without a full roll out of the updated pages, they’re just hack jobs. Enough to keep the software working. Bit like the coat hanger or gaffa tape that holds a car together. Good enough but only for the short term.
So… I have abandoned Simple PHP Blog, and given my loyaties over to Word Press.

Wordpress is lightyears more developed, with greater functionality than that of SPHP, with of course a hell of a lot more security. It’s able to pick up emails from a special address and automatically post them to my site, and I’m also able to use an iPhone application to post entries from where ever I am (like the post below).

It’s taken a couple of day to reformat the template to match the design of my site and to import all the previous posts and comments. I think in the end it will be worth it.

The old blog will stay online, but if any hacker thinks they can use the security issues to take over my site, good luck. The files are going to have all write access removed.