One of the easiest ways to hack a WordPress installation is through an account that still uses the ‘admin’ username. It basically takes half of the challenge out of it, leaving only the password to figure out. Most people, unfortunately, use passwords that are just…
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Recently I had to make a WordPress theme for someone who is very uncomfortable with the technical process of downloading pictures and uploading them, so asking this person to resize or crop photos to make thumbnails was out of the question. Regardless, she needs to…
If you’ve ever wanted to provide your own short URL’s you’re in luck. This series will show you how to do just that. Today, we’re talking about how to do this if you use WordPress for blogging.
Sometimes you really want to just search a specific category – more importantly, you might want your visitor to be able to do that. The generic search is going to search everything, well not exactly since the WordPress search is fairly lousy without some plugin…
I’ve been working on a new WordPress theme that highlights what I enjoy in minimalist design. It’s called Minimal Overhead. As you can see from the above screen shots, this design is going to come with a few color themes, and you can easily add…
One of the things that I’ve noticed over time is that the excerpt functionality of WordPress is often neglected. For a long time I thought that perhaps the idea of having to type of an excerpt just triggered the lazy person in most of us…
Today I had to deactivate my Bad Behavior plugin for WordPress – at least temporarily. It seems there have been some people trying to post to my blog who are getting a message that they have a blocked IP address. Amusingly enough, I got the…
After months of tossing around ideas on how I wanted to redesign my main site, WebsiteStyle.com, I finally came up with what I’m calling Version 1.0 of the redesign. It was not intended to take quite so long, but ah well. Not only was it…
( Note: If you read the article, it will give the massive amount of images time to load for you. Unless I’m really boring the life out of you, in which case, please feel free to scroll down. ) So I was browsing around looking…
It’s almost time to do the yearly blog change to pink again. In case you’ve forgotten why we mark a breast cancer awareness month with this tradition now, PinkForOctober.org will fill you in. If you’d like to join in and don’t have a theme handy,…