A Common-Sense WordPress Security Primer:
A Common-Sense WordPress Security Primer, by David Coveney of the Liverpool-based InterConnectit IT. An excerpt: There’s been a big fuss lately over the latest WordPress hacks that have targetted older versions of WordPress. And in my view, they show the less pretty side of WordPress and some people in the community… but not all of [...]
Vladimir Prelovac: How to do a full WordPress backup and restore
Straightforward, simple instructions for a critical task: How to do a Full WordPress Backup and Restore. Vladimir Prelovac, on his blog, Prelovac.com, does things which seem to fall into two categories. The first is providing concise and clear instructions on important subjects which, despite their importance, don’t inspire people to write oustanding tutorials (or perhaps [...]
Malware attacks on WordPress
We’ve just found some malware – or, more precisely described, links inserted into our posts which, if followed, would lead readers to sites containing malware. One of the variants is described as “Reycross [dot] com” – one of the ones which hit us leads people to the site blog [dot] campe [dot] com [dot] br. [...]
Dan Masters/Zoundry Raven blogging client
Dan Masters – a web designer in Austin, has a very persuasive review of Zoundry, an off-line blogging client. That is, one composes a post irrespective of having an internet connection. I’d been looking for an off-line client, and Masters’ review persuaded me to try it out. Masters’ piece actually predates a new version called [...]
HTML-Ipsum – preformatted dummy copy
HTML Ipsum Presents – is a website, as described by Smashing Magazine, “A useful little website created by Chris Coyier. It provides you with the standard Latin text already in HTML tags. Clicking on any of the blocks automatically copies the text to your clipboard!” Here’s one sample copied and pasted, in one click, from [...]
Smashing Magazine: WP Developer’s Toolbox
Dozens of links for those wanting to customize code – or build a theme from scratch: WordPress Developer’s Toolbox. Smashing Magazine. Most of this work is – admittedly – more sophisticated than my skill set – but the outcomes are all beautiful (or otherwise desirable), and, based on my experience with Smashing Magazine, likely to [...]
Blog Design Studio
Blog Design Studio has great explanations (e.g. What is this NoFollow thing all about! – you won’t find a more concise explanation anywhere); free WP themes, some outstanding WP tutorials (particularly about security issues specific to WordPress, an often-ignored subject), and, not least, an impressive portfolio of their own work. One of those was the [...]
Noupe.com – power tools for WordPress users – and more
Noupe.com may have a bug. If it does, the bug is understatement. For instance, 40 Exceptional “CMS Enabling” WordPress Plugins is about 40 exceptional WordPress plugins, and many of them do, in fact, make WordPress a better CMS. ((“CMS” in this context means “content management system;” idiomatically in the World of WordPress it means, I [...]
Randa Clay: How to Efficiently Manage Images in WordPress
The super-talented Randa Clay has a timely basic explanation of the new(ish) image handling functions in current versions of WP. Check out “How to Efficiently Manage Your Images in WordPress.” While you’re there, don’t miss Randa’s portfolio.
How to Add Tabs to Your Sidebar – and more from Rubiqube
Adrian at Rubiqube: the excellent WordPress Tutorial: Adding Tabs to Your Blog Sidebar Also don’t miss his Visual WordPress Theme, which I find quite attractive: Visual: The WordPress Theme for Passionate Bloggers. A screenshot, and more after the jump:
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