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Publish RSS feeds on your WordPress site without plugins

| February 13, 2008 | 14 Comments

Darren Hoyt, that brilliant WordPress developer and designer, explains how you can publish RSS feed headlines on your WordPress blog with a built-in WordPress function instead of using a plugin. As Darren says, this code snippet is not intended for scrapers; it's for people who have ... View Post

Make your WordPress theme iPhone friendly with iWPhone WordPress plugin and theme

| February 12, 2008 | 0 Comments

I recently wrote about a plugin that made the WordPress admin more accessible from an iPhone. Now there's the iWPhone plugin/theme package that "automatically reformats your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s iPhone and ... View Post

Make sure WordPress doesn’t switch to the default theme

| February 11, 2008 | 7 Comments

Have you ever been working on your WordPress blog's design, when you refresh the page only to find that it's decided to revert to the default theme? This has happened to me pretty often, and apparently I'm not the only one. Mark O'Neill says that his WordPress ... View Post

Have a nice steaming mug of…WordPress

| February 10, 2008 | 4 Comments

If you're a true WordPress fan, you've already got your WordPress hoodie which is keeping you toasty on these cold winter days. But alas, a very important part of your life, your daily cup o' joe, is being encased by a generic mug with no meaning. Well, those drinking-coffee-in-generic-mug days ... View Post

Guide to converting your XHTML CSS layout to a WordPress theme

| February 10, 2008 | 0 Comments

Updated Feb. 14, 2008 Deziner Folio has a really useful step-by-step guide to taking your XHTML/CSS layout and converting it to a WordPress theme. They say this whole process can be completed in 30-40 minutes! Developing a Wordpress Theme Another option is ... View Post

Wordspew Plugin has security vulnerability

| February 9, 2008 | 0 Comments

Secunia has reported an "id" SQL injection vulnerability in the WordSpew plugin for WordPress. Here's the description of the vulnerability: DESCRIPTION: S@BUN has reported a vulnerability in the Wordspew plugin for Wordpress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks. Input ... View Post

Easily add unwidgetized WordPress plugins to widgetized sidebar with Custom Function Widgets plugin

| February 8, 2008 | 2 Comments

One of the reasons I hesitated to use widgets is because there are many useful plugins that aren't widgets and demand that you add a snippet of code to your sidebar, something you can't really do with widgets. Well, now you can widgetize your sidebar and add both widgets and non-widget plugins to it with ... View Post

Great tips for finding and modifying images for your blog

| February 7, 2008 | 0 Comments

Oak Innovations has a great guide to finding and editing images for use on your blog. The guide goes through copyright issues, licenses, and sources for finding images, and then introduces Picnik, an online image editor. Since reading this ... View Post

Is WordPress’ security vulnerable at its core?

Miriam Schwab | February 6, 2008 | 5 Comments

To my chagrin, my blog is telling me that it's time to upgrade again. A new version of WordPress is available! Please update now.

It's an urgent security release because if you allow registration on your WordPress blog, users can edit other users' drafts. WordPress development also mentions the ... View Post

Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan: WordPress in Kazakh

| February 6, 2008 | 4 Comments

Poor Kazakhstan. It's going to take them a long time to live down the image of their country that was created in Borat. However, despite the damage inflicted by Borat, I recently saw a news item on how the Kazakh economy is growing at a steady pace. So it seems that they've ... View Post