One of the many great things about using WordPress to power your site is that there is no shortage of themes to choose from. The Extend section of wordpress.org is full of fantastic free themes. Another excellent source of free themes is weblogtoolscollection.com. In case you didn't know, I toil away in the forums over there testing new themes and inspecting files for malicious code. I've also been... continue reading
I just picked up on some good news via Twitter and thought I should pass it along as it is quite important. The good folk behind KreativeThemes are holding a promotion whereby a portion of sales will be donated to UNICEF to help out the earthquake victims of Haiti. What we will do is that we’re going to make a special sales run for 30 days, where you can purchase our themes (both packages and theme... continue reading
I don't know how many of you are familiar with the plugins created by MaxBlogPress but after numerous complaints in the WordPress support forums they have been yanked from the WordPress plugin repository. I've never used any of these plugins but after doing some research they do add some usefulness to your site. The problem with these plugins is that once they are installed they require the user to... continue reading
As announced back on 04 Nov, we've been running a little contest/promo here at WordPress Canada with the big prize being a free copy of the Flexx Professional theme by iThemes. A big thanks to those you participated but unfortunately, as the saying goes, there can be only one. That being said only one contestant got it right. The rules were quite simple or at least I thought they were. Quoting from... continue reading
Users are advised to upgrade their WordPress installs to version 2.8.6 which fixes two vulnerabilities. From the official WordPress Dev Blog, 2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended. The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered... continue reading
