wp-content in Code is a Tell for Common WordPress Coding Mistakes

Regularly while reviewing themes and plugins, Automattic team member, Lloyd Budd, see URLs or paths that include ‘wp-content’. This is a often a hint of a WordPress coding mistake.

Posted by Ian Stewart in Tutorials

Search Meter plugin

If you have a Search box on your blog, Search Meter automatically records what people are searching for — and whether they are finding what they are looking for. With Search Meter, you’ll be able to find out what people are searching for, and give them what they want by creating new posts on those topics.

Posted by Ian Stewart in Plugins

Why You Should Be Ignoring Most WordPress Themes

With the exception of a rare few, most free WordPress Themes are “garbage”. Read on to see why you might want to look at WordPress Theme Frameworks.

Posted by Ian Stewart in Ideas

Supported Legacy Branches For WordPress.org?

Should WordPress maintain legacy branches of it’s code so users can keep their outdated versions running safely? Could this help WordPress overcome the recent negative press about security?

Posted by Ian Stewart in Ideas

The Beginner’s Guide to Tricking Out Your WordPress Blog

You took the leap and installed WordPress to host your own blog because you want complete control over how it looks and works. Now, it’s time to power it up, lock it down, and make your blog completely yours.

Posted by Ian Stewart in Resources

Integrating Fading Button Navigation into WordPress

Digging into WordPress shows you how to build fancy fading button navigation into your site.

Posted by Ian Stewart in Tutorials

20+ Powerful WordPress Security Plugins and Some Tips and Tricks

After putting in all of the time, and perhaps money, into your WordPress website or blog, its now time to secure and protect it from outside enemies and general bad guys: hackers, spammers and all round tossers.

Posted by Ian Stewart in Resources

Plugin and theme authors should force users to upgrade

By providing backwards compatibility in our plugins/themes, developers are partly responsible for WordPress security issues. We’re giving users an excuse to not upgrade.

Posted by Ian Stewart in Ideas

WordPress Security and How I’m Going to Take All Your Money

Bloggers who ignore security releases do so at their own risk. And because of that, when you are hacked, Aaron Brazell will charge you an assload of money to fix you up! Believe it.

Posted by Ian Stewart in Ideas

10 Really Useful WordPress Code Snippets

There are certain snippets of WordPress code that you seem to end up using over and over again. In this post are ten great snippets that will make coding that bit easier.

Posted by Ian Stewart in Resources
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