WordPress Theme Development Tools
In this post, we’ll run through the best of the best and build ourselves a cross-platform WordPress Theme test environment that would do a professional Theme developer proud.
Feedburner Feed Replacement Plugin Broken!
If you’re using the Feedburner Feed Replacement Plugin, and have not checked your feeds lately, it might be worth a few minutes of your time to do so. Just check your blog’s feed address (http://yourblog.com/feed/) and if you are redirected to your Feedburner feed, you are fine. Otherwise…
The Correct Way To Report A Security Issue With WordPress
If you discover a security problem with WordPress, this is the correct way to go about it. If you believe you’ve found a security problem in a release of WordPress please send mail to security at the WordPress.org domain and we’ll do our best to address it as soon as possible.
WP.me: URL Shortening Service From WordPress
If you are a WordPress user, the dilemma ends here, WordPress now have their own URL shortening service in the form of WP.me, short and sweet right.
Tips To Protect WordPress Admin
WordPress is pretty secure and they release updates periodically to fix loopholes, to stay safe you should always make sure to upgrade to the latest version of the software. However there are several more ways in which you can protect your WP admin from getting misused or hacked.
Notifying Unconfirmed Feedburner Email Subscribers
Problem arises that many users do not confirm their subscriptions and it could involve many reasons, like the confirmation email landing up in the spam folder among other things. Tips for resolving this common issue.
Disable plugin stylesheet
When activated, some plugins automatically ads their CSS stylesheet to your WordPress blog. This is great in most cases, but it is a lot cleaner to have all your CSS styles in one stylesheet. Here’s a hack to disable plugin specific stylesheets.
DRM And GPL: WordPress Developers And Type Foundries
Business models must change. They must get as creative as our work if we are to survive as businesses. WordPress developers will accept losses in sales as they grow their support model. Type foundries will need to do something similar or be replaced by those that find the new business model first.
Reminder: Dont Forget to Backup Your WordPress Database!
Tips and reminder for create backup of your WordPress blog.
10 Awesome Things To Do With WordPress Custom Fields
Custom fields are what turns WordPress from a blogging platform to a CMS. Want to do just about any project on WordPress but not sure it is up to the job? Custom fields are the answer. In this post, there are ten awesome things to do with custom fields in WordPress.
WordPress 2.8.3 Security Release
Several folks in the community dug deeper and discovered areas that were overlooked. With their help, the remaining issues are fixed in 2.8.3. Since this is a security release, upgrading is highly recommended.
Disable syntax highlighting in WordPress 2.8
One of WordPress 2.8 new features is Codepress, a syntax highlighted editor for WordPress files. While the idea was exiting, I must admit I didn’t enjoyed using this new editor. Here is how to remove it.