Starting Tuesday, a widespread “brute force” attack against WordPress sites started impacting sites across the Internet. This attack is leveraging a botnet which looks to have more than one hundred thousand different computers at its disposal. The intent is simple: to find and compromise WordPress sites with simple passwords. Since the vulnerability lies within poor [...]
WordPress supports image galleries without having to use any plugins. However, using a couple simple plugins will take your WordPress gallery from nice to wow! 1 – Choose a Lightbox Plugin There are several lightbox plugins which work with WordPress Gallery. The important thing when selecting a lightbox plugin is to find one that has [...]
Inspired by fancy CSS image borders on Web Designer Wall, I wanted to see if I could get the same CSS to work with a NextGEN Gallery gallery. Below are the results. If you’d like to use these borders, here’s what you need to do: 1 – Download this zip file and unzip/decompress it. 2 [...]
Surprisingly Gravity Forms hasn’t implemented the placeholder feature for Gravity Forms input elements. The placeholder allows you to show placeholder text inside the field instead of using field labels to create more concise looking forms like this: On June 22, 2011, Jorge Pedret, a freelance web developer, came up with a solution to the Gravity [...]
If you followed the instructions in my post “How do I move WordPress from a subdirectory to the root directory?” and you encountered any issues, please read the following list of frequently encountered issues. Please comment below if you continue to have problems or write to me via my Contact form if you need personal [...]
Q: I’ve just started a blog. I’m new at it. The blog is set up using the Genesis theme Lexicon. I would like tags to show under my posts, but for some reason they don’t. Maybe this particular theme doesn’t enable it. How can I address this? I am not a coder so is there [...]
Zero Day Vulnerability in Many WordPress Themes TimThumb is a popular image resizing utility used on millions of sites worldwide. It is inherently vulnerable because it allows hackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code in your timthumb cache directory. To prevent this from happening, it is urgent that you either update your TimThumb script [...]
Clean and simple list of the plugins I use most often on my WordPress sites and some that I’ve included just because they’re too cool to not mention.
Q. I’ve installed my website in a subdirectory of our domain, because I didn’t want visitors to see the site until I was finished with our development. Now I want to have the site show up in the root directory (not in the http://mydomain.com/wordpress directory). How do I do this? I’ve read the information on [...]
WordPress Varieties WordPress.com — a version of WordPress that is hosted for free at the WordPress.com website. When you sign up for a WordPress.com account, you don’t have to worry about installing WordPress. You just sign up, and you’re given a login to an account that has WordPress already set up for you. You can [...]
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