MyGallery Plugin for WordPress If you are using the myGallery plugin for WordPress to display your pictures, please follow the link above and update your plugin to the latest version. A pretty serious remote code execution vulnerability in the plugin has been found and disclosed and there have been scattered reports of hack attempts.

Radio to WordPress Migration: Scott writes out some instructions on how to migrate from Radio Userland to WordPress in the process of finally migrating to WordPress himself. I found some resources in the WordPress wiki that needs serous TLC but Scott’s instructions might help some people. He uses a tool from Steve Hooker called backLogAllRSS but had to hack the code for things to work to his liking and he promises to share the code 😉 . Welcome to the world of WordPress, Scott!

WordPress Commodore 64 Theme Remember the Command Line Interface (CLI) theme for WordPress. Well now there is a theme to convert your WordPress blog into a Commodore 64. Since the the blog has been Boing Boinged, server might be slow/dead but there is an alternative link. I love how Cory puts it … “It’s endlessly fascinating and deliciously pointless”, I cannot help but concur!

How to Design Your Own Minimalist WordPress Theme: Here’s a simple trick* for creating your very own minimalist WordPress themes, as discussed endlessly by Diggers. First, download and install your chosen theme from any of the various WordPress theme sites. Next, accidentally on purpose delete the themes image folder. View your blog with all of the theme’s original images missing. Interesting thought.

Stripe Generator: While you are waiting for the WordPress Theme Generator to dig itself out of the digg effect, check out this “ajax diagonal stripes background designer”. At first I was wondering what use cool looking candy stripes would be until I read the Striped Designs post on their blog. I love the subtle gradient stripes! Thanks to a ping from ScriptyGoddess for the WordPress Theme Generator post.

WordPress Theme Generator: There used to be some very good ones out there but they seem to have dropped out of favor. This new one offers such conveniences as instant previews, lots of layout, color and gradient settings, custom header graphics and download of individual files as well as a neatly packaged zip. This could be a good starting point for WordPress bloggers who want to play around with colors and layout and do not want to muddy their hands with code. I like the instant gratification and appreciate Yvo’s hard work.

Plugin Page Organize Series Description The Organize Series plugin helps with the organization and presentation of articles/posts you write as part of a series. It helps make it easier for readers of your blog to discover all the series you’ve written and also to easily find post that are part of the same series. Features Integrates with the category system of WordPress Robust administration options menu for the plugin that allows you to control much of the output of the plugin to suit your own tastes without having to open the plugin file and edit things manually. Automatic tag insert for displaying a "container" on the full post page that will show what series it belongs to and other articles in the series. A custom .css file (orgSeries.css) accompanying the plugin to make it easier to make changes in the display of various elements (for those familiar with .css). Two […]

Tom has put together a WordPress Theme Viewer with 39 themes. Many of these themes have been announced here before and before anyone asks, Tom has no plans to update the viewer with new themes. You can download the themes in his viewer from this list. Another reason for this post is to draw attention to some of Tom’s work and the reason I want to garner that attention is because I believe that his work can be really helpful to novice bloggers. He is a technical writer and podcaster and has a lot of good things to say on and about WordPress. He has written on themes (on which the theme viewer was based), plugins and various other WordPress and blogging tips and tools.