Posts Tagged ‘WordPress’
How to keep WordPress secure
Matt Mullenweg talks about the need to keep up-to-date with upgrades to guard against security threats:
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/09/keep-wordpress-secure/
Matt discusses a new worm which exploits a vulnerability in older versions of WordPress. The attack creates an admin user and executes code through the “permalinks” functions. The current version of WordPress, 2.8.4, is not vulnerable to this attack.
Keeping updates current is one of the best ways to guard against hacks. If you haven’t upgraded yet, don’t put it off any longer.
Tags: Matt Mullenweg, security, upgrade, WordPress, worms
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
WordPress by Miraz Jordan
EVERYONE CAN CREATE A WEBSITE OR BLOG WITH MINIMUM FUSS AND EXPENSE. FIND OUT HOW WITH MIRAZ JORDAN. SHE MAKES THE COMPLEX EASY TO UNDERSTAND
“I believe that we can all use technology such as computers and the Internet to bring change into the world, improving ourselves, others and this planet, our only home in the universe.” — Miraz Jordan
Miraz Jordan is a Wellington, New Zealand-based blogger and writer with a particular interest in Internet technology: where it’s going, what’s happening, and how that affects regular folks and community groups. She co-authored the very popular book WordPress 2 Visual QuickStart Guide, and has written extensively about making websites, using the Internet, and using Macintosh computers. She recently created a new blog called Paperchains whose purpose is to help reduce the amount of wasted paper in the world and thereby reduce fuel use, pollution and other negative impacts. Jordan regularly uses Twitter, and dips in to Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Flickr. She helped organize the successful Webstock 06 and 08 Web Conferences.
Tags: Miraz Jordan, Pacific New Media, WordPress
Adding spaces around images in WordPress
A short tutorial on how to add spaces around images placed into posts and pages.
Write post window
Start from the Dasboard. Create a new post/page or manage an existing post/page.
Click on image to show image editing icons
Clicking on the image will reveal two icons. The left “picture” icon will reveal two settings panels. The red (/) icon will delete the image from the editing area.
Edit image panel
Add appropriate information here. The image margin settings are in the Advanced Settings panel.
Advanced settings panel
More settings are found in the Advanced Settings panel. This panel has fields for setting horizontal and vertical margins around the image.
Image with 4 pixel margins
Enter values in the fields Horizontal space and Vertical space.
Tags: image margins, image settings, image spacing, WordPress
Register for the next Web Weavers Workshop
The next Web Weavers Workshop will be on Wednesday, October 22.
Our featured sensei will be Lorelle VanFossen.
More informaton and registration here.
Tags: Lorelle VanFossen, WordPress
Anticipating WordPress 2.7
Otto has written an excellent article on how to prepare your sites for the new Comments Enhancements.
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/
EventCalendar3 patch for WordPress
I like EventCalendar3 (EC3) because you can subscribe to the posed calendar events from iCal (OSX), Sunbird or Google calendar. It’s now under the care of Alex Tingle and you’ll find it here: http://wpcal.firetree.net.
Starting from WordPress 2.5 EC3 wouldn’t work properly. There are patched files to make it good again. The issue and a downloaded fix is documented here: http://penguin.firetree.net/pipermail/eventcalendar/2008-September/003289.html
Tags: calendar, EventCalendar3, plugins, WordPress
Not Everyone Needs a Blog
Most people I know haven’t the desire to stand on a soapbox and blog. All they want is a web site that provides basic information which they can update from time to time. WordPress makes an ideal platform to do this.
The purpose of this article is to show how easy it is to make a simple non-blog web site using WordPress and a few useful plug ins.
Scan your theme for suspect code
Here is a useful WordPress plug in for alerting you to suspect code in theme files. It’s from builtBackwards. If you’re like me I go exploring and download lots of interesting themes. Most times I don’t have time to examine the files minutely. So, this plug in is really helpful for scanning all the files in a theme.
TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker)
Scan all of your theme files for potentially malicious or unwanted code. Be aware of advertisements or dangerous JavaScript inserted into legitimate themes by third party theme download sites.