The vast majority of readers couldn’t care less about throwing a donation to the author. However, there will always be those individuals who find your information interesting or helpful. Make it easy for them to send enough change for a cup of coffee or other beverage your way.

Simplicity is best and the Free PayPal Donations plugin for WordPress is just that, simple. Brought to you by Johan of WP Storm this plugin adds a PayPal donation sidebar widget and shortcode to WordPress. The options menu lets you setup your PayPal ID and a few other optional settings.

It comes with standard donation buttons or you can use your own button. You can also set an optional default purpose and reference which can be overridden on each inserted instance with the widget and shortcode options. There are also settings for currency, custom payment page style and the return page. This donation plugin generates valid XHTML code making it a tool you really need in your arsenal.

Johan the plugin author also does something found rarely nowadays, he communicates with his users. If you have any problems let him know. I found him to be very helpful above & beyond what I could have expected after an issue with a bit of CSS.

Enjoy the plugin and don’t forget throw a bit of spare change to those bloggers who amuse, frighten or otherwise entertain you.

Buy me a drink!

P.S. If you are reading this consider yourself entertained since you have read this far. Click, it’s drink time!

The script adds <script src=”http://losotrana.com/js.php”></script> at the bottom and a bunch of encoded garbage at the top of every .php file in your hosting account. Since I can’t expect to get notified much less get help from Godaddy here’s what I did.

Try this before going through the trouble of deleting and reinstalling your WordPress.

1. First – You need to remove the malware script & garbage from your .php files.
   My friends over at Sucuri Security have a free php script that will do just that. It takes just a few moments to run and will clean your files. *Note – Via the web was the best way for me. Just download the file to your desktop and do NOT forget to rename it to wordpress-fix.php. After that, upload it to your site via FTP, and run it via your browser as http://yoursite.com/wordpress-fix.php
2. Second – Now you should be free of the malware script. It’s time to fix your php files so they will not be affected again. I wrote a script that will CHMOD all your .php files to 444 meaning they will be read only, so they should not be affected by malware like this again. This will save you lots of time versus setting permissions by hand.

   You will however need to change your theme .php files back to writable when you wish to edit them. A small price to pay for being safe. Get the script 444chmodphp (208)

3. Third – Change all your ftp & WordPress passwords to something more complex which translates to a harder nut to crack for hackers and bots. Use a program like WordPress File Monitor as it will notify via email if your site has a file or files change. In case you forgot to do it already delete the WordPress install.php file.

Hope this helps you clean up if you were affected. It’s not a bad idea to do some or all the things listed in the article anyway.

Buy me a drink! Lord knows I need it.

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