Prologue, the WordPress.com theme that mimics Twitter like functionality has undergone a series of updates. The updates are as follows: The front page now shows a stream of recent updates instead of one update per user Pages now have their own template and look much better Avatars are only shown once for sequential posts by the same author (front page and tag pages) Post titles are no longer empty, they are generated based on the beginning of each post Works out of the box for WordPress.org 2.3.2 Probably the biggest update is the fact that Prologue now works out of the box for WordPress 2.3.2. It didn’t work before because of a function that was used within the author template which wasn’t available in 2.3.2. Because of these updates, Prologue which is now at version 1.2, will have the changes reflected in Subversion (for self hosted WordPress.org blogs) and is […]
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Archive for January, 2008
Today, we have a moderately critical SQL Injection Vulnerability that was discovered by HouSSaMix in the “WP-Cal” plugin version 0.x for WordPress. According to the Secunia Advisory: Input passed to the “id” parameter in functions/editevent.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code. Users with a malicious intent can conduct SQL injection attacks which may result in the retrieval of usernames, password hashes, and email addresses for users and administrators. However, the malicious user must have knowledge of the database table prefix. So far, version 0.3 has been confirmed as having this vulnerability with other versions possibly being affected. Secunia states that the solution involves editing the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised. Click here to read the original advisory which provides an example of the exploit as well as the vulnerable […]
[Continue Reading...]The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You: You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web. Within minutes, if you’ve written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots will get the word out to anyone remotely interested, from fellow bloggers to corporate marketers. I could not have described this post (on Wired) better. It is a flash animation that follows a blog post as it makes its way through the Interweb. If you ever wondered how all these disparate peices fit into the blogosphere, this is the food for thought.
[Continue Reading...]One Column Themes Stripped Stripped is a minimalist one column theme with the text made up of red and black color. The theme contains no sidebars and the navigation is at the bottom of the page. Demo | Release Page| Download Two Column Themes Forte Magazine Style Forte is a two column theme which comes built in with lots of features. It comes with ample amount of space to do banner advertisements and tabbed content in the sidebar. The theme is widget ready and comes with a extended sidebar in the footer. Demo | Release Page | Download Three Column Themes Ansi Y Ansi Y is a theme which makes use of black, gray, brown and white colors. The theme is widget ready and makes use of two sidebars. The theme looks simple and content area is big enough to allow you addition of medium width images. Demo | […]
[Continue Reading...]WordCamp is a conference type of event that focuses squarely on everything WordPress. Everyone from casual end users all the way up to core developers show up to these events. These events are usually highlighted by speeches or keynotes by various people. For example, WordCamp Dallas will feature the following speakers Matt Mullenweg on WordPress 2.5 and Beyond 45 Ways To Power Up Your Blog by John Pozadzides How to prevent, detect and stop content theft by Jonathan Bailey Cali Lewis and Neal Campbell C’mon, Let’s Talk! Building influence and interaction with blogging by Liz Strauss WordPress Power Tips by Lorelle Van Fossen SEO For Bloggers by Chris Smith Aaron Brazell A panel of people to discuss the business of blogging: Mark Ghosh, Liz Strauss, and Aaron Brazell Testing With WordPress by Jacob Santos WordCamp is a spin off from the popular BarCamp which was a spin off of FooCamp. […]
[Continue Reading...]List of WordPress tutorials: A bunch of WordPress tutorials on various topics in the form of screencasts. Topics include various tasks such as installation on a variety of platforms and tasks inside the WordPress admin.
[Continue Reading...]Two Column Themes Sonette Sonette is a two column theme which makes good use of the green color. The sidebar has enough space to add 125 x 125 banners. The date and comments meta information is displayed to the right of the post. The theme is widget ready. Demo | Release Page | Download Gradient Brown Beauty This is a widget ready two column theme which makes use of a mix of brown colors. There are ample amounts of advertising space and you can easily add 125 x 125 and 300 x 300 banners. This theme also supports tabbed content in the sidebar. This theme is widget ready. Demo | Release Page | Download Hope Hope is a two column WordPress theme which looks quite simple and uses fluid width. The theme uses a mix of pink and brown colors. The header looks good. Content area and sidebar uses rounded […]
[Continue Reading...]I recently wrote an article that explained how to configure permalinks in WordPress. In that article, I go over a few different reasons why you would want to use pretty permalinks instead of using the default linking structure. Well, Ted Clayton published an article that took the other side of the permalinks argument. Ted goes into detail on why and how WordPress uses the default linking structure and explains that it’s not as bad as some would make you think. It’s an excellent read and I thank Ted for bringing up the other side of the equation. There is, in truth, a maze of trade-offs & counterpoints involved in selecting a strategy & tactics for making nicer, people-friendly URLs, for each & every website. Yes, many typical blog-sites will be able to adopt typical, easily-identified Permalink configurations. In the end, though, only you can do it right for your site. […]
[Continue Reading...]WPTEX: Turn you wordpress blog into a pdf ebook using LaTeX Now I wrote my Masters Thesis in Microsoft Word and I would rather pull my hair out one at a time than do that again. However, I bring that up because I jealously watched as the other cohorts of my MS class put together their thesis with LaTeX with relative ease and perfect formatting. WPTeX will let you publish your blog as a PDF eBook using LaTeX and includes a lot of very cool features such as auto indexing and TOC generation. It is released under the GPL I will have to show this to my blogging dad who will love to have an eBook made out of his blog on research of health and wellness!
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