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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 to a wide variety of [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
WordPress is now so popular that hackers are targeting wordpress websites. Some sites we look after were hacked by the “brute force approach” – ie: programmatically trying usernames and passwords until they can login. Types of hacks: Luckily we do various checks which enabled us to pick up the following: header.php hacked – hidden links [...]
For a school’s online newsletter we wanted the “photo of the week” category to present differently from other posts. Ideally we wanted special styling in the print css. However since printing of background images and colour is optional, we wanted to be sure that the users knew that the styling was there and that they [...]
We are thinking of converting the school’s website from typo3 to wordpress to make it easier for staff and parents to collaborate in maintaining the website. We would like to have a event listing feature that is really easy to use. From a usability point of view, it would be nice if there was one [...]
An upgrade of a wordpress site’s Database from Mysql 4 to Mysql 5 gave some surprising results – some strange characters floating around – those funny question marks. I had already successfully converted (I thought) some other sites. When I thought about what was different, I realised most of this content had come from writers [...]
