One Column Themes WhitePaper WhitePaper is a one column theme which makes use of the black and white colors. The theme has a extended sidebar in the footer made up of two columns. Demo | Release Page | Download Two Column Themes Options This is certainly one of the best themes I have seen since quite some time, the theme definitely provides website owners with lot of options with a magazine style home page customizable tabs. This theme definitely packs in quite a punch with quite a lot of features. Demo | Release Page | Download [EDIT] Temporarily removed for copyright violation complaints. [EDIT] Resolved. Thanks to Brian and Justin. StudioPress This is a two column AdSense ready theme which comes built in with ad units in the posts and the sidebar. The theme provides you with comment styling and is optimized for search engines. Demo | Release Page | […]

Small Potato of wpdesigner.com fame has come up with a new twist for Premium Themes. Now I try very hard to stay away from promoting premium themes because of their economic nature, especially if there is no direct advantage to my readers. But SP offered a large number of freebies for my readers and I had to pass them on to you. Small Potato is starting a “WordPress Premium Themes Club” where he plans to offer twelve themes during a period of one year for a price of $5 per year in membership costs. There are four themes in the club and all new members will get the four themes and twelve more over the next 12 months. Now from a users’ perspective, if you like his work, the nominal charge is a good deal for 16 new themes and considering his promotion methods and the quality of his work, […]

One of the most annoying issues I have with the Codex is the lack of a printer friendly link. There are plenty of times where I and many others would like to print out an article to keep handy for use later on, or to keep right in front of you as you are performing the steps to a particular set of directions. I was going to work on adding this printer friendly link to the Codex via CSS but thanks to Jeremy Clarke who appeared on episode 6 of the WordPress Weekly podcast, I now know of a way to enable this functionality. As it turns out, you can register an account with the Codex website. For whatever reason, I’ve never noticed this until it was pointed out to me. Once I registered an account, I saw a wealth of options that I hadn’t seen before. After clicking on […]

Custom Function Widgets This plugin allows you create widgets for plugins which only provide you with hooks, useful if you have loads of plugins which require you to manually alter your theme files for inclusion. Release Page | Download CodeShield This plugin escapes text inside code tags such that all code gets converted to html characters. For example this plugin will convert > to > if it exists within the code tag. Release Page / Download Random Top Ads This plugin allows you to randomize and display ads to your visitor allowing you to create unlimited number of ads. It also allows the visitors to browse all the ads using a link. Release Page | Download GoCodes Redirection This plugin allows you to shorten your post URLs and distribute it to others. Useful if you want to create tiny URLs that belong to your domain and is easy to remember. […]

S@BUN is at it again, this time, reporting multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities within the Photo Album plugin for WordPress. According to the security bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Photo Album (plugin for WordPress), which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries. These issues are caused by input validation errors in the “wppa.php” script when passing user-supplied parameters (e.g. “photo” or “album”) to certain functions (e.g. “wppa_album_name()” or “wppa_photo_name()”), which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks. Multiple security advisory services places this round of vulnerabilities as a Moderate Risk. For example, FrSIRT describes the Moderate risk as being: Remotely and locally exploitable flaws, which could lead to denial of Service or privilege escalation. Versions 1.1 and prior of this plugin are vulnerable. As always, it is recommended that you disable this plugin until a patch for it is released. [EDIT] […]

Two Column Themes Dayvan Dayvan is a two column theme which makes use of the brown color for its links. The theme is simple yet quite aesthetic. It comes pre-packaged with plugins such as meta image, SRG clean archives and ultimate tag warrior. Demo | Release Page | Download HipHop The theme is based on the popular genre of music and includes multiple colors and a cool logo in the header. The content area is small though and cannot fit in big images. Demo | Release Page | Download Photoshopfox Photoshopfox is a two column AdSense ready theme which makes use of bright colors. The sidebar looks attractive and can hold different types of advertisements including 125 x 125 banners. Demo | Release Page | Download The Wind Cries Mary This is a two column theme with a feminine touch. The theme makes use of attractive images in the background […]

FeedBurner Quietly Kills All-Time RSS Feed Stats: I know I have looked at my all time feed stats in the past but since it would take forever to generate and timed out the last time I tried it, I am not sure this is a big loss for me. However, worthy of note is the fact that FeedBurner has languished quite a bit since being purchased by Google and they seem to have rested their laurels after making the Pro features free for everyone. In all honesty, I am quite satisfied with their (now free) service, their uptime record (knock on wood) and their feature set, so I am not as peeved about their lack of updates or lack of new features. [EDIT] FeedBurner claims the lack of all time feed stats were unintentional and things are or should be back to normal soon. Now we might never know what […]

Cinch is a very easy way for a blogger to create interesting Podcasts with no equipment of any kind except for a phone. Follow the instructions below (or as on their website) to test it out quickly for yourself. Call (646) 200-0000 from any phone (You have to know the number/callerID of this phone, Skype would probably not work) Thats it! BlogTalkRadio puts out a podcast feed with an MP3 at a pre-defined URI. Just visit http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com/number_you_called_from   (replace number_you_called_from with your phone number) Use some sort of a plugin for WordPress to import the said feed into your blog and you be podcastin’! The only major drawback I see is the phone number at the end of the RSS URI. Since this would probably be exposed over the web, if I were concerned about my phone number, this method would not work for me. However if you import the RSS […]