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Ical Calendar to html options

Some considerations in choosing a plugin or script to import one or more shared calendar ical feeds:

Completeness and/or robustness of ical implementation? vs type of dates expected by your application. A complete implementation may of necessity be more complex than a simple one. If your dates are simple, may be a simple solution [...]

Widgetized headers and footers?

Dynamic (widgetized) Sidebars are great, but would you not like to have a dynamic header and footer in your theme too? This would allow you to switch widgets in and out of website headers and footers as easily as you do the sidebars.The css layout generator will give you access manys layouts using [...]

Wordpress Breadcrumb Widget Released

First of a series of widgets is a breadcrumb navigation widget, that offers a default “apple.com” like style, with minimal css.  See the webtools pages.

Improve your wordpress web’s security - Prevention

Easy improvements for the non-technical:

are you displaying your username for all the hackers to see? Go to your wordpress profile page and change the “display name publicly as” to something other than your username. Trying using a nickname if your first or last name is too similar to your username.
is your password strong? use [...]

Check if you’ve been hacked

A reminder list of ways to check if your site is unintentionally hosting spammers content or links:
How many pages or posts do you have?
One site I saw was unintentionally hosting thousands of pages that were not showing in their main menu. Check in wordpress, check your database with phpmyadmin, check your stats for entry [...]