There’s a lot of attention lately for Wordpress security issues. Blogs get hacked quite often and on forums I see a lot of desperate cries for help. I know how it feels. This blog got hacked once and it’s a real pain in the butt.
Before I go into some Wordpress security issues, let me emphasize [...]
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Sometimes you want to tweak your Wordpress theme a bit.
Adding extra or new graphics with different dimensions, changing the templates, a bit of extra search engine optimization, replacing a specific part or maybe installing a better solution for something you’re using now… whatever.
I’m not talking about adding a widget or activating a plugin. That’s easy. [...]
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I’ve changed my WordPress Database Backup Plugin for the WP-DBManager.
It’s not that I wasn’t happy with the Wordpress backup plugin, but the WP database manager has a big advantage.
I’m NOT a database specialist, so don’t ask me why it happens (if you do know, share it with me in a comment), but over [...]
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Wordpress is about to issue a new version: 2.5. Actually, it’s over due, as it was announced several times before, but I’m confident it’s coming one of these days.
So, how does this affect you and your blog?
Well, first and foremost you should always upgrade to the latest version if it has the latest security fixes. [...]
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Wordpress users, while in their Admin section, often see a message urging them to upgrade their Wordpress software.
I’ve seen many discussions on several forums, whether you should do that (immediately) or not. Sometimes there seems to be no reason to hurry, on other occasions there’s a security fix involved which needs to be done as [...]
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If you hate cron jobs or haven’t figured out how they work, here’s some good news. David Pankhurst developed a new Wordpress plugin that really makes it easy to set cron jobs.
A cron job is a time-based scheduling service in a Unix operating systems.
If you want some program or code to start at a pre-defined [...]
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In the past, I’ve published post about search engine optimization for Wordpress blogs, containing title optimization and generating keywords and description tags.
I’ve always implemented these optimization tips myself, because they worked like charm and there was no adequate plugin available that suited my needs.
Until now.
Because I’ve implemented the All in One SEO Pack.
Easy to [...]
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If your blog displays archives, categories, tags and a search feature, you have to realize that the content in these sections is a duplicate of your original content shown in the ’single’ page.
Therefore it would be very wise to list an excerpt only and not the full posts.
To do so, find this line:
<?php the_content() ?>
and [...]
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Now that you’ve learned all the basics of CSS, it’s time for a little bit of fun using that information.
Using CSS to add a shadow to your images.
This is a great technique for making your testimonials stand out.
You can use an extra div tag to do this.
<div align=”center”>
<div style=”width:115px;height:115px; filter:shadow(color:gray);”>
<img src=”http://www.yoursite.com/images/image1.jpg” width=”100″ height=”100″ style=”border:1px solid [...]
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