Easy Mods for WordPress powered web sites

The next Web Weavers Workshop will explore easy modifications you can make to your WordPress powered web site. We’ll look at the components in a theme and learn how HTML, CSS and PHP relate to each other.

Seating to this workshop is very limited. You may bring your laptop to follow along with the exercises.

Date:
Saturday, May 9, 2009

Time:
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Location:
Hawaii Self-Storage Conference Room

More information and registration:
http://www.hmaus.com/index.php/meetings-workshops/web-weavers-workshop/

Tags: CSS, HMAUS, HTML, php, Web Weavers Workshop, WordPress

Security advisory for WordPress and other PHP sites

Web site owners using the WordPress system should upgrade to version 2.6.2 immediately. This important security release adds protection against a SQL Column Truncation hazard and other security issues.

The security risk affects all PHP applications, WordPress included. Particularly vulnerable are those websites allowing open registration. More details about this issue at http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-262/

Tags: php, security, SQL, WordPress

Understanding if, then, else…

Posted by Jeff Chandler on Weblog Tools Collection, an easy to understand explanation of boolean logic.

http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/09/if-then-else/

Tags: boolean, logic, php, Programming