Archive for November, 2007

November 3rd, 2007

HOW-TO, LinkyLoo, WordPress Templates WordPress Skins WordPress Themes

The WordPress Help Cheat Sheet: Is a nifty little collection of code snippets and helpful bits of information aimed directly towards theme and template developers who need a reminder once in a while. Nice to print out and put somewhere handy. If you get lost looking for the link to the actual PDF download, look for it at the bottom of the post, towards the right under the word link. (yes, the authors need to make the most important content of a post easily visible and identifiable)

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Jim Stitzel

November 2nd, 2007

WordPress Plugins

bbPress Post automatically posts new blog entries as new threads in your bbPress forum. Custom Query String Reloaded replaces Andy Beard’s Custom Query String UTW Edition which worked with pre-2.3 WordPress version and the UTW plugin. WP Custom Title Colour gives you the ability to customise the title colour for any post via a panel in the sidebar of the write page. WP-Debug uses the Krumo framework for debugging allows WordPress developers to see everything that’s going on behind the scenes. WP DigiClock embed a flash digital clock into your wordpress blog, either in a post or page, or within your blog’s template (in the sidebar / header / footer etc.). Dynamic Tags Widget takes all the categories from your blog and automatically generates a dynamic 3-D tagfield. Explore is a Windows Explorer-like plugin that is useful for navigating through sites that have a complex page hierarchy. Get Recent Post […]

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Jim Stitzel

November 2nd, 2007

WordPress Templates WordPress Skins WordPress Themes

Business Sense is a 2-column theme perfect for a business blog or site. Extended is a 2-column theme with a Web 2.0 look and bright colors. Fotosky is a 3-column theme with 3-column footer that features a clean and simple design. Lizard is a new dark skin for the Shifter theme that allows you to choose between 4 page widths including fluid width New Yorker is a 3-column, fluid, newspaper-style theme with lots of window dressing. Tech Moz is a 2-column theme with beautiful lines and colors.

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ModSecurity and WordPress

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Mark Ghosh

November 1st, 2007

Blogging News, WordPress Security

Daniel Cuthbert has written a paper on ModSecurity and WordPress. While I praise the work and the effort, I am not sure why they did not find it in themselves to protect the PDF document that they are distributing using some sort of an SHA1 checksum or the like to ensure the integrity of the download. Now I know that these guys know what they are doing but I have a problem with security related papers, help documents, scripts and other items when they cannot be verified with the source and the source itself cannot be verified with the original author of the product. I have always been a big proponent of mod_security and I think it provides a comprehensive layer of web security without as much overhead. Although I have never thought of WordPress’ security to be as weak as the BlogSecurity folks have claimed it to be. mod_security […]

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