I just spent five hours trying to save WordPress Garage and another site of mine, but some of the damage is irrevocable. Here's the story of this nightmare, and what I've learned:
I have a site that was running on WordPress version 2.2. I hadn't bothered to upgrade since we had stopped publishing on it ...
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Here’s a new and interesting WordPress theme idea:
LaunchPad is a WordPress theme for people who like to buy domain names, but don’t always put a site on them right away. On many hosts, if you don’t create a site, your domain name hosts a page full of ads for them. LaunchPad ...
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I think that dnScoop.com is more of a vanity tool than something really useful, but it’s fun anyways. According to the dnscoop.com About page, “dnScoop.com attempts to estimate a value for an established website or a domain name by using factors such as:
- Links pointing to the domain
- Popularity
...
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Matt just announced the release of a new theme that will make your WordPress blog into a
Twitter-like environment. The theme is called Prologue, and is available on WordPress.com and as
a download under Open Source GPL. (If you ...
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A vulnerability
has been discovered in the
WP-Cal plugin for WordPress, an event calendar plugin by
Fahlstad. This vulnerability can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Just last week another plugin by Fahlstad ...
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Reuters OpenCalais project is looking for a plugin developer who can create a plugin or application for WordPress that can do the following:
Offer automatic blog content scanning
Support rich meta-tagging
Create and maintain a Semantic tag cloud for each blogger to post
Embed the related Calais URI.
The price? A measly $5000. I bet that’s the most anyone’s ...
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Headsetoptions has a great review of
the types of tabbed interfaces available, and a tutorial on how to add one to your WordPress blog.
A tabbed interface is one of those boxes that you often see in the sidebar of ...
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With the proliferation of social media networks, blogs have become only one tool in creating our online identity. The question is: how do we integrate all of the facets of our online identity
so that we can actually have a life too? blah blah ...
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Heads up to any users of the
WP-Forum WordPress plugin:
Secunia has reported that it can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks. Too bad - just when I was looking for a simple forum solution for a WordPress ...
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Michael over at WPCandy brought up the question recently of whether it's ok to
use the word "WordPress" in the domain name of sites about WordPress that are not affiliated with
Automattic. I came across this issue about a month ago thanks to ...
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