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WordPress 2.6.2 Released
Written by Jai on September 9, 2008 – 5:45 am - 3,004 views
If you have allowed open registration for your blog readers, you might want to consider upgrading to the latest version of WordPress - 2.6.2. This new release of WordPress fixes some vulnerabilities and exploits which can be used by attackers.
Here is what WordPress blog says about this exploit :-
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.
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If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!Pure CSS Tooltips
Written by Jai on September 1, 2008 – 2:49 pm - 4,218 views
Today I’ll teach you how top create tooltips purely using Cascading Style Sheets(CSS). Tooltips are basically little blocks of information that are used to inform users about certain attributes of your website elements. This is a tooltip example!Click on this link to see how a tooltip looks like.
Most tooltips are created with the help of javascript or some other programming languages. This can be cumbersome because not everyone wants to learn Javascript. But CSS tooltips are easy to create and can be loaded quickly without any delay.
Here is what you have to do:-
1. Make a blank HTML file and paste the following text in the BODY part :-
<a href="#" class="tooltip"><span>This is a pure CSS tooltip!</span>Tooltip 1</a>
This is the HTML part where we create a hyperlink with the text Tooltip1. In the next step, we are going to hide the text within the span tags which will serve as the tooltip text.
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Written by Jai on August 27, 2008 – 5:29 pm - 13,978 viewsDisplaying Gravatars in comments
To refresh your memory, Gravatars are little user images from Gravatar.com that are displayed against your comments in the theme (if the theme is built to support Gravatars). A lot of WordPress themes are built without the support of Gravatars. So, here is some help for you to add Gravatars in your theme. Open up your comments.php file from the theme folder. Find this piece of code :-
<?php comment_text() ?>
Replace the above code with the following code :-
<div class="gravs">
<?php if (get_bloginfo('version')>=2.5)
echo get_avatar( $comment->comment_author_email, $size = '50', $comment->comment_author_link);?>
<?php comment_text() ?>
</div>
<br clear="all" />
The above code will display the Gravatars. Now let us add some CSS to the style.css file for your theme.
.gravs {margin-top:20px;}
.avatar {float:left; margin-right:5px; margin-bottom:5px; padding:3px; border:1px solid #999999;}
When you check your theme again, you will see the Gravatar images against your comments.
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Written by Jai on August 20, 2008 – 1:31 pm - 6,367 views
Scan all of your theme files for potentially malicious or unwanted code. Be aware of advertisements or dangerous JavaScript inserted into legitimate themes by third party theme download sites.
List Category Posts is a simple WordPress plugin which allows you to list some posts from a category into a post/page using [catlist=ID], where ID stands for the Category Id.
This WordPress plugin allows you to create sections of text in your post or page which expand/collapse when clicked on. You simply wrap the special tags around your text, and set the ‘expand link’ (the link visitors click on to show the text).
Actionable allows the creation of a categroized list of action items for users to check off and track. It was originally developed for Share 350.0 - a plan for regional sustainability to help people track their actions and efforts to create a sustainable community. Read more
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Written by Jai on July 31, 2008 – 12:33 pm - 10,438 views
Many of you may already know all about RSS but a lot of Internet surfers and newly established bloggers are still not familiar with the three-letter acronym. In order to make life easier for them, here is a detailed article that explains the word. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary; syndicating means republishing an article that comes from another source such as a website.
RSS is a means of publicizing updates about websites. It may or may not include a summary and photos of the latest posting. But those that provide summaries (thus Rich Site Summary) allow users to skim through the article so that they could decide later on if they want to access the website source. The RSS feed usually contains the title of the update originating from the website. It is also usually the link to the website source.
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Written by Jai on July 15, 2008 – 11:12 am - 5,068 views
I am sure that everyone has come across WordPress themes which use alternative stylesheets (CSS) to switch between different sets of style information. For example, you can have a look at the following themes that have this functionality :-
Here is how these themes do it :-
Default Stylesheet
Ideally, every WordPress theme has a style.css file associated with it that contains all the style information for the theme. This default stylesheet is usually called in the header.php file of your WordPress theme by something like this :-
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
Rel=”stylesheet” is what defines the active stylesheet as the default one. Read more
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Written by Jai on May 31, 2008 – 1:21 pm - 4,649 views
WordPress is commonly used as a blogging platform but if you dig deeper, you will find that there are many different ways in which this CMS (Content Management System) can be used. You might need to modify your theme differently to reach your target but it is entirely possible. You can also take the help of some already available plugins that will help you do the task.
Given below are some ideas for the enthusiasts and modders. I am also thinking of developing some free themes which will help you to use WordPress in the following ways :-
Giving your Blog a Website look
If you change the front page of your blog to a static one, you can configure WordPress to easily behave like a normal site instead of a blog. In WordPress 2.5.1, there is an option under settings -> Reading of your wp-admin section where you can set the front page of your blog to a static page. After doing this, you can just design your static page to look like a standard website.
Here are some additional tutorials to accomplish this :-
Creating a Static Front Page
Creative a Static Front Page (with many options)
Static Front Page Combined with Dynamic Content
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Written by Jai on May 27, 2008 – 12:27 pm - 5,185 views
CONTEST OVERÂ
WordPress is celebrating its 5th birthday today. I am really happy to see the continued support by the creators and the community for WordPress. WordPress has come a long way and has become the most popular blogging CMS in the world. Bloggers are getting together all over the world to celebrate this day with fellow WordPress bloggers. One of the open invitation parties is being held in San Francisco, California and if you live there, make sure to attend it :- Details here
To celebrate this event on Blog Oh! Blog, I am holding a contest, where I will be giving out 5 premium themes to 5 lucky winners. The premium themes can be from Blog Oh! Blog or any other website that offers premium themes (any theme with a single-user license). To participate, all you have to do is blog about this contest on your blog and leave a comment in this entry. The 5 winners will be selected randomly from the contestants. After you win, you can make a choice for your prize theme and I will buy it for you if its from another website or give it to you for free, if its from Blog Oh! Blog. Want more?
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Written by Jai on April 19, 2008 – 11:45 pm - 3,449 views
If you are new to WordPress and looking for reasons to use WordPress as a CMS (content management system) in your new website, let me give you some.
Open Source Software
WordPress is an Open Source software which allows it to be used free of cost. You can use it on any kind of personal or commercial website without have to pay a single dime for it. It is built on PHP/MySQL (which is again Open Source) and licensed under GPL.
User Friendly
You don’t really have to be experienced to use WordPress on your website. Nowadays most of the hosting companies provide the ability to install WordPress on your site at a single click of the mouse. The administration section is easy to navigate and its even easy to add articles/content to your website.
Themes Support
You will never run short of templates when using WordPress. If you don’t like the themes that come with the default installation of WordPress, you can hunt on the Internet and you will find thousands of free themes that you can download and use for your website. There are themes which can even make your website look like a regular site instead of a blog.
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