Relating to web design, web programming, web servers, and other web topics
If you are not a fan of making your own theme, you can use the nifty Find Themes website to pick one that suits your needs. While I have built many a WordPress theme from scratch, on this site, I tend to try out different themes other people have made so that…
WordPress 3.8: New Features and What To Look Out For. I’ve been using the MP6 plugin on this website for quite some time, and now it will be part of WordPress by default. It’s a good bit different from what you may be used to visually, but it is a…
This year we have seen the dawning of the responsive design craze amongst web designers and developers. I remained skeptical about the trend, primarily because I was raised in the world of good usability and accessibility, and breakpoints and adaptive images seemed incongruous and presumptuous with the foundations of those…
An older vulnerability that got ignored in 2007 is showing up again. According to Acunetix’s Bogdan Calin, this particular vulnerability is exploitable through the platform’s XMLRPC API (through XMLRPC.PHP). Attackers could try and guess hosts inside each network they target, port scan those hosts, reconfigure internal routers and launch large scale…
In the lead-up to the 3.5 release of WordPress, we kept hearing that the outdated “blogroll” was going to go away. No longer would you see the Links menu in your WordPress admin area because it was no longer really needed with the advent of custom menus last year. So…
For the love of humanity, please quit adding SEO ‘optimization’ into your custom WordPress theme options. Don’t assume we want to use your restrictive interpretation of what is best for our website. Love, People who know what they are doing.
