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Woo Themes | Premium Wordpress Themes

Every month I highlight a free WordPress theme that caught my eye. In addition to that (I posted this month’s WPTOTM yesterday), I would like to give a shout-out to a premium theme this month. Papercut is a premium theme by the new …

Create dynamic WordPress sidebars using conditional tags

WordPress is a wonderful blogging platform that is very flexible. In this tutorial , I’ll be showing you how to create a dynamic sidebar, which changes according to the current page.

WordPress 2.6.2

Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand() .  With his help we worked around these problems and are now releasing WordPress 2.6.2.  If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade.  With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and earlier to craft a username such that it will allow resetting another user’s password to a randomly generated password.  The randomly generated password is not disclosed to the attacker, so this problem by itself is annoying but not a security exploit.  However, this attack coupled with a weakness in the random number seeding in mt_rand() could be used to predict the randomly generated password.  Stefan Esser will release details of the complete attack shortly.  The attack is difficult to accomplish,  but its mere possibility means we recommend upgrading to 2.6.2. Other PHP apps are susceptible to this class of attack.  To protect all of your apps, grab the latest version of Suhosin .  If you’ve already updated Suhosin, your existing WordPress install is already protected from the full exploit.  You should still upgrade to 2.6.2 if you allow open user registration so as to prevent the possibility of passwords being randomized. 2.6.2 also contains a handful of bug fixes .  Check out the full changeset and list of changed files

Comment on How to Create a Wordpress Theme from Scratch by insic

WOW cool tutorial .

Comment on How to Create a Wordpress Theme from Scratch by Shane

As @Dan said, probably the quickest get yourself up and running theme tutorial I’ve ever seen. Perhaps many people survive by hacking available themes until they’re happy with the output, but it’s great to know how to start from scratch …

Comment on How to Create a Wordpress Theme from Scratch by Dan

That was the fastest tutorial I have ever seen for wordpress .

Wordpress parse error: syntax error on PHP 5.2.x

Here is a short Wordpress troubleshooting tutorial for theme tweaking. A theme I’m working on runs fine and was tested on PHP 4.3.x locally in my machine, I tried testing on PHP 5.2.x and I immediately encountered syntax error on …

Display Flickr Images in Wordpress

Now lets say you got your own Flickr group and want to show it of on your website but you don’t know how! Well stop what you are doing right now and read this tutorial because this is the answer you where looking for!

Displaying Code In WordPress Posts

Sites that frequently publish code examples, such as tutorial sites, need an easy way to display code on their pages. Fortunately for WordPress users, there are several great ways to display codes in your posts

WordPress Tutorial: Turn Default Title into Your Picture Logo

A lot of people have already asked for help with their WordPress logos. The thing is it’s not that they want me to create a logo for them, it’s that they do not know how to change the code in their WordPress template to show their logo …
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