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Securing WordPress

10 Jul 2013

I panicked quite a bit when I discovered someone had been repeatedly hitting  xmlrpc.php on my install of WordPress. I didn’t realize it was happening until my host alerted me that I was potentially going to exceed resources for the month. I wasn’t sure what the cause of the overage was initially, so I had to…

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Post Thumbnails in RSS feeds

16 Dec 2009

the_post_thumbnail is one of my favorite additions to WordPress 2.9, but I recently ran into a problem… the images I had set as my post thumbnails weren’t being included in my RSS feed. Assuming you’ve already added support for thumbnails to your theme, you should be able to add this snippet to your theme’s functions.php…

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Wordcamp Atlanta

09 Nov 2009

Details: Site design and logo for Wordcamp Atlanta. Design implemented by Brandon Sheats. My apologies if the link isn’t active just yet. I was a little quick on the trigger to post this as the site is not live yet, but should be very soon. Since the cat’s already out of the bag, I’ll leave…

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WordPress 2.7 Comments – Style Starter #2

10 Dec 2008

In case you missed the first post related to WordPress 2.7 comments, please check it out. This is the second set of WordPress 2.7 Comment style starters. (Here’s Style Starter #1.)

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WordPress 2.7 Comments – Style Starter #1

10 Dec 2008

WordPress 2.7 Comment Style Starters: WordPress 2.7 Comment Style Starter #1 WordPress 2.7 Comment Style Starter #2 Stylizing Threaded/Nested Comments in WordPress 2.7 In case you missed the first post related to WordPress 2.7 comments, please check it out. As promised here’s some starter CSS for stylizing comments in your WordPress 2.7-compatible theme. I hope…

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Stylizing Threaded/Nested Comments in WordPress 2.7

03 Dec 2008

WordPress 2.7 Comment Style Starters: WordPress 2.7 Comment Style Starter #1 WordPress 2.7 Comment Style Starter #2 One of the features I love in WordPress 2.7 is the ability to have threaded (nested) comments up to 10 levels deep. While viewing comments on this – or any WordPress 2.7-powered – site, you’ll notice a Reply…

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Theme Updates

30 Sep 2008

The WordPress community gives much of itself to users who don’t always give back. I created Effercio Blue and Nanideska last year, but as of today both they are being released under GPL. If you downloaded them prior to today, the old Creative Commons license still applies. Effercio Blue – A two-column theme for WordPress. Support WordPress tags, dynamic sidebar…

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WordPress for iPhone

22 Jul 2008

I’m typing this from the WordPress for iPhone app (http://iphone.wordpress.net). When I first heard about this app, I was excited. As good as some of the plugins are to make the WP admin more “iPhriendly”, they’re far from perfect. I think this app has a lot of potential, but it’s far from ideal.

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WordPress 2.5 Sneak Peek

18 Mar 2008

WordPress 2.5 Sneak Peek. I went ahead and upgraded to Release Candidate 1, just to test it out. So far, so good. It’s still in development, so be careful before you upgrade.

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50000+ Spam Messages Killed and Counting

10 Jan 2008

Since installing Aksimet, it’s blocked 50,222 spam messages from appearing on my site. That’s a lot of crap I didn’t have to deal with. Thank you Akismet. (I wish I could determine exactly when I started using the plugin… but I am not sure where to find that information…) If you’re blogging with WordPress, enable…

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