There are some basic steps you can take to help limit your exposure to malicious behavior directed at your WordPress install. My intention with this article is not to make your website bullet-proof (if such a thing exists) but to…
I was thinking about a way to showcase older posts and happened across the Zazz Post Tickerplugin by Stew Houston. I thought “Here we go, another chance for me to totally bork my blog with some unknown piece of code…”…
Just released the new version (0.94) of the missunderstood theme. Some major changes, lots of clean-up, added functionality: Built-in Optimal Title (for SEO) Built-in slimbox (faster, lighter Lightbox effect) Separate lists for comments and trackbacks Fancier blockquotes Built-in pullquotes Prettier…
The info in this post is pretty old but I’m leaving it here for reference, regardless… I wanted to add a forum to my WordPress blog but everything I came across did not integrate well (design/page continuity, etc.) or was…
Version .95 is out now, with a lot of tweaks done over several months… Incorporated some plugins into functions.php for convenience: Optimal Title Hot Dates removed ‘sociable’ Slimbox Added the Top Post functionality (for a full-width ‘featured’ post). Top Post…
Since domains are often indexed differently (with and without the www prefix), I’m jumping on the no-www bandwagon. For more info visit Ease of use with WordPress influenced me to use Mark Jaquith’s Enforce www. Preference plugin (which works for…
I added a ‘Help Desk’ tech support ‘ticket’ system some time ago (Hesk v0.93.1) and wrote a tutorial for it here. I don’t use it and haven’t had time to update to the latest version of Hesk (latest version of…
I had an interest in adding a Help Desk to my site where clients could submit ‘tickets’ that would be tracked (and stored in a MySQL database, preferably alongside my current WordPress one) and when changed/updated both the client and…