ZigPressA new version of WordPress has been released. This isn’t the major, extra-improved 2.9 that all WordPress developers are waiting for, but rather a minor interim release to harden existing installations against recent attack methods. From the WordPress site:- The headline changes in this release are: A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is [...]
UPDATED 15 NOVEMBER 2009 – VERSION 2.1 Ever wanted to show your tweets in a widget on your WordPress sidebar (as on this site)? Now you can. This widget used on this site is one that I developed myself, based loosely on other plugins and tutorials (including some borrowed code duly acknowledged in comments), and [...]
Many articles have been published about the merits (or de-merits) of using “nofollow” links on websites and blogs, especially in comment signatures. Essentially, if a link is “nofollow”, then Google and other search engines will not count it as a “backlink” to the site it links to, thus preventing the site from gaining ranking from [...]
One of my clients, for whom I designed and built a static HTML website back in 2008, is starting to need updates to it more frequently, as her career as a theatre set and costume designer progresses. Following my recent emphasis on WordPress-based projects, I decided that a recent set of updates she requested was [...]
Do you remember how, in a recent post called “Let clients use the WordPress Dashboard“, I discussed the limitations inherent in the user management system in WordPress? In a nutshell, if you use the Role Manager plugin to give a WordPress user who is fairly “senior” (but not an administrator) the ability to manage more [...]
