As much as I love Wordpress, and that’s a lot, I can’t bring myself to accept the state of the presentation layer.
Have a look at a Wordpress template’s index.php - it’s usually a big plate of code soup. It’s a mess, it’s difficult to read and a pain to debug. It gets particularly bad when [...]
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There are many things you can do to secure your wordpress blog - a lot of them are pretty technical are require programming and/or sysadmin knowledge. Here’s a list of easy things that YOU can do to secure your wordpress blog:
Remove unused themes (by removing the whole directory)
Disable and remove unused plugins.
Keep your wordpress version [...]
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Danial Cuthbert has written and excellent paper about securing Wordpress using mod_security for Apache.
Read it on BlogSecurity.
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A really nice magazine-style layout: http://themasterplan.in/themes/the-morning-after/
A newspaper layout: http://www.revolutiontheme.com/
For a while I’ve been meaning to change by other blog from a more traditional blog-like layout to a more static traditional website type layout. I think either of those themes above should do the trick. The second theme costs but looks to be well worth the [...]
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Wordpress offers a <code> tag that you can wrap around any code segments in your post.
int steveMethod( int one, int two )
{
return a * b;
}
The snippet of Java above was surround with the <code> tag. Using the tag should allow you to make code snippets stand out from the rest of the text in the [...]
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I am deliberately setting the post timestamp of this post to several months ago to see if this will appear on the front page and in the RSS feed.
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